11. Last Night in Soho
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Michael Ajao
Plot: A young fashion student, obsessed with the 60s aesthetic, moves to London where she inexplicably finds herself connected across time and space to Sadie, a rising 60s starlet. But even as she dives deeper down the rabbit hole and her connection to Sadie grows stronger, reality begins to take a surreal turn.
12. No Time to Die
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Actors: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Ralph Fiennes
Plot: James Bond has left the service life behind, preferring a more peaceful life in Jamaica. But when old CIA contact Felix Leiter shows up, their reprieve is short-lived as Bond once again finds himself on the trail of a kidnapped scientist - and a new, powerful adversary with a dangerous technology at his disposal.
13. Old Henry
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
Director: Potsy Ponciroli
Actors: Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr.
14. A Quiet Place Part II
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Krasinski
Actors: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, Millicent Simmonds, Wayne Duvall
Plot: The Abbott family is forced to leave their farmhouse road behind and venture out into the open world. They soon realize the dangers they face go well beyond the deadly creatures who hunt by sound.
15. Encanto
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jared Bush, Charise Castro Smith, Byron Howard
Actors: Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz, Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, Rhenzy Feliz, Carolina Gaitan
Plot: A young women feels left out as she is the only member of her family without any magical powers. But her supposed weakness will turn into her greatest strength - and her families saving grace - when an attack is planned to take away all magic forever.
16. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Questlove
Actors: Stevie Wonder, Sal Masekela, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Rock, Mahalia Jackson, Moms Mabley
17. tick, tick...Boom!
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Actors: Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Bradley Whitford, Alexandra Shipp, Judith Light, Joshua Henry
Plot: In 1990, Jon is about to turn 30 as he waits tables in a New York City diner and at every opportunity continues to work on what he hopes to be the next great American musical. But as the as the day approached when he is to showcase his endeavor, he faces pressure all around - from his artistic girlfriend who wants to leave New York to his friend Michael who has given up on his dream in exchange for financial security to an artistic community struggling with the AIDS epidemic. It all leads to one question: What are we meant to do with the time we have?
18. Nobody
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Actors: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, J.P. Manoux, Humberly González, Gage Munroe
Plot: Hutch Mansell is the perfectly typical father and husband, in a perfectly
overlooked life - your average nobody. But things change when he thwarts a
home invasion and something inside of him, a simmering rage, finally snaps
and causes him to push back. Now in the sights of a drug kingpin he will
uncover long-buried secrets and dangerous skills in order to protect his
family - and remind everyone he will be a nobody no more.
19. Belfast
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Ciarán Hinds, Judi Dench, Jude Hill, Colin Morgan
Plot: Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical look back at a young boy growing up in a working class family in the turbulent late 60s Ireland.
20. The French Dispatch
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Tilda Swinton, Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Timothée Chalamet, Mathieu Amalric
Plot: A love-letter to journalists, The French Dispatch follows an American
newspaper set in a fictional 20th-century French town. The films plays out
a series of vignettes reflecting the stories in the final issue.
