Are we back to normal?

Not yet, and maybe never.

(Because aren’t they the real reason for the season?)

Best Film Scenes of 2021

Marvel Studios; Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features; Nicola Dove/MGM; Warner Bros. Pictures (2)

They will laser you in space!

thatShang-Chicuts right through with one early kinetic showdown.

House of Pain,Dune

The phrase “What’s in the box?”

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

Simu Liu and Awkwafina in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.'.Marvel Studios

hasn’t hung this heavy since Brad Pitt got gifted Gwyneth’s head inSeven.

Are they connected psychically, spiritually, physically?

Twinsies,Malignant

If you haven’t seenJames Wan’s truly bananas horror hit, stop reading.

DUNE

Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) gets tested in the ways of the Bene Gesserit by Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) in ‘Dune.'.Warner Bros. Pictures

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In the Heights

Warner Bros. Pictures

Last Night in Soho

Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie mirror each other in ‘Last Night in Soho’.Parisa Taghizadeh/Focus Features

No Time to Die

Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas in ‘No Time to Die’.Nicola Dove/MGM

Nina Simone in ‘Summer of Soul’

Nina Simone in ‘Summer of Soul’.Searchlight Pictures

Agathe Rousselle in ‘Titane’

Agathe Rousselle in ‘Titane’.NEON

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.

Cate Cameron/Lionsgate

A Quiet Place II opening scene

Paramount

Malignant

Warner Bros.