Hello Everybody! This week’s installment will be a list of my favorite movies seen during 2021 but were made in 2020 or 2021. They are not in any particular order of liking. All are worth seeing. I have included a link to the trailers for each and also a short blurb on the plot. Next week I’ll be back to the regular reviews.
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Best Movies I Saw in 2021 that were made in 2020 or 2021 |
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| The White Tiger | 2020 | action | Young poor man tries to work his way to success as a driver for a wealthy man in India |
| Tenet | 2020 | sci-fi | Futuristic mindbender with time travel |
| Resistance | 2020 | Action, biography | Biography of Marcel Marceau in WWII |
| Disclosure | 2020 | Drama | 4 yr-old accuses son of politician of sexual misconduct (Australian film) |
| The Silencing | 2020 | Crime drama | Reformed hunter who lives rustic lifestyle becomes hunted by a serial killer |
| I Care A Lot | 2020 | Drama, black comedy | A crooked legal guardian preys on the elderly and picks the wrong old lady to try and bilk |
| The Midnight Sky | 2020 | Drama, near future sci-fi | The world is about to end and a dying scientist in the Arctic tries to save humanity |
| 2020 | documentary | Focuses on East Lake Meadows “projects” in Georgia but is a general template for housing projects that sprang up to corral the poor across the US after WWII | |
| News of the World | 2020 | Western historical drama | A Civil War veteran now is a traveling reader of news to communities where many are illiterate. He takes on a special mission to return a small child to her kin. |
| The Quarry | 2020 | Crime drama | A killer poses as the new priest for a small border town. |
| The Little Things | 2021 | Crime drama | County sheriff returns to L.A., his old stomping ground, to help a hotshot detective track and catch a wily serial killer. |
| Concrete Cowboy | 2020 | Drama and biography | Based on true story of urban horse riders in Philadelphia. A father and son reconnect. |
| Promising Young Woman | 2020 | Crime drama | A woman engages in a campaign of going to bars, pretending to be drunk, and then humiliating the doofuses that pick her up thinking she’s easy pickins to exploit. |
| Miss Juneteenth | 2020 | Drama | A hard-working former “Miss Juneteenth” tries to live vicariously through her daughter as she tries to prepare her to vie for the title. |
| Breaking News in Yuba County | 2021 | Drama, black comedy | A neglected wife with a cheating husband finds a way to get rid of him and get attention at the same time. |
| Minari | 2021 | Family drama | Set in 1980s. A Korean couple decides to leave their dead end jobs as chick sexers and invest in a plot of land in Arkansas to grow food to eat and to sell to grocers in the big city. |
| Land | 2021 | Drama | A grieving, suicidal woman decides to go off-the-grid in the mountains to process. |
| Another Round | 2020 | Drama | A group of teachers decides to do an alcohol-based experiment. What could go wrong? |
| Pig | 2021 | Drama | A premier chef who left “the scene” years ago to live off-grid is drawn back after his truffle pig is stolen. |
| Nomadland | 2020 | Drama | A widow buys a van and survives as a nomad on the RV circuit. |
| 2021 | documentary | A black soldier returns from the war and is blinded on the bus ride home by racist police in a southern town. Legal battles follow. | |
| Wild Mountain Thyme | 2020 | romance | Two young Irish people live in adjoining farms with their parents. Both considered misfits by the community, their getting along is important. |
| French Exit | 2020 | Drama, dark comedy | A rich NYC woman has run out of money and decides to flee with her son to Paris to stay at a friend’s apartment. |
| The Green Knight | 2021 | Action adventure | A young man is challenged and goes on an adventure with much danger but a chance at much reward. |
| Stardust | 2020 | biopic | Biography of David Bowie when he did his first tour of the U.S. Looks at his family history also. |
| Lovecraft Country | 2021 | Action, horror, mini-series | Series that meshes post Korean War Jim Crow South with monsters from Lovecraft |
| Nobody | 2021 | Crime, action | A man who works for his father in-law is drawn back into an old dangerous lifestyle. |
| Finding You | 2020 | romance | A young NYC violinist spends the summer in Ireland and finds romance and a newfound joy for her music. |
| Black Widow | 2021 | Action | Marvel Cinematic Universe movie about the origins of the Black Widow. |
| The Trip | 2021 | Crime, Drama, action | Unhappy couple takes a trip to their remote cabin with ulterior motives and unexpected visitors. |
| The Protege’ | 2021 | Crime, action | World-class assassin and his protege have their hands full when a ghost from an old job surfaces. |
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Reblogged this on Whipped Owl and commented:
For any movie buffs out there, this blog provides short and precise (just as I like it) reviews and suggestions.
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Thank you for the reblog!
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You have a good list there. I started off well because I’ve seen the first two. But then as I go down the list, I found more and more movies on my ‘to-watch’ list. 😁 Especially Promising Young Woman, The Green Knight and Minari.
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Oh yes, Gia, those are SO good, each one in its own way.
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I don’t doubt it for a second. No doubt you’ll find out once I’ve seen them 🤓
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Impressive list, Lisa. Based on the amount of movies I watch these days, I guess it would take me about 5 years to see all these films you listed! 🙂
At least, I managed to watch the new Bond movie over my Christmas and New Year’s break – pretty good but very long!
Sunday night, I also caught a great CNN documentary about Carole King’s and James Taylor’s 2010 Troubadour reunion tour, which I loved.
Since I generally dig music films, the David Bowie biopic looks intriguing. The Nicholas Cage movie also looks interesting.
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LOL Movies are My Family. The Carole King and James Taylor doc sounds like it would be so good. I saw a clip of James Taylor not so long ago talking about running into the creep that shot John Lennon just minutes before John was shot. 😦
About the Bowie movie, Johnny Flynn, a really talented musician and actor, plays him. Him in the role makes all of the difference.
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Thanks, Lisa. Actually, looks you could still catch the CNN documentary, “Carole King and James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name”. They are repeating it this Sat , 9-11 pm. If you like their music, I can highly recommend it!
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Thanks for heads-up but I don’t have CNN.
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I saw Black Widow…that is the only one I’ve seen. I want to see Stardust of course.
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