Year in Review

We’re reviewing the year, so we rounded up the Top Action Movies of 2021 – from cowboys and outlaws to hitmen and video game mechanics.

We put together a list of the Top Horror Movies of 2021 —from comedies to stories about grief and completely chaotic direction.

This was yet another year of extraordinary international cinema and our team picked their choices for the top foreign-language films of 2021.

This year, we wanted to honor documentary films with our Year in Review series by pulling together top documentaries of 2021 film list.

Animated films deserve love too, so we decided to round-up our favorite animated films in 2021 from across country, genre, and age-group.

We’ve rounded up our top comics of 2021 with titles coming from the big two, indies, and beyond spanning creatives and genres.

Our Top TV Series of 2021 showcases the diversity of genre and talent available on streaming platforms, and dang, there was a lot to love.

Musicals, kaiju, superheros, dramas, and more, 2021 was a huge year for movies – here are our top movies of 2021 as voted on by our staff.

To round up our top indie games of 2021 we looked at writer’s personal favorites and scores across our site to pick our top 10.

To wrap up a year of anime, we asked the But Why Tho? anime writing staff and editors to rank their top 15 anime of 2021.