U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Romance/Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, John Michael Higgins, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Christine Ebersole, Maya Rudolph, Skyler Gisondo
Sweet and romantic with plenty of offbeat quirks and unexpected beats while never becoming saccharine or artificial.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity, Disturbing Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Lauren Hadaway
Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Amy Forsyth, Dilone, Jonathan Cherry, Kate Drummond
The escapism on offer here isn’t of a light and airy nature but instead provides insight into the darker, obsessive aspects of the human experience.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Richard Jenkins, Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman, Holt McCallany
The end result is unsettling and reminiscent of what Hitchcock might have done with this premise.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Musical
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Josh Andres Rivera, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Rita Moreno, Mike Faist, David Alvarez, Ariana DeBose, Rachel Zegler, Iris Menas
This is no soulless cash-grab. Spielberg’s "West Side Story" is a resplendent entertainment.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-11-24
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated/Fantasy
Director: Jared Bush, Byron Howard
Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, Maria Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitan, Diane Guerrero, Wilmer Valderrama, Rhenzy Feliz, Ravi Cabot-Conyers, Adassa
A welcome maturation of animation beyond the conventional American standard into something both family-friendly and thought-provoking.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-11-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill, Judi Dench, Ciaran Hinds, Lewis McAskie, Lara McDonnell
In addition to being Branagh’s most personal film, it’s also his most intimate, and is unquestionably one of 2021’s most affecting motion pictures
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Racism)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, Andre Holland, Bill Camp, Alexander Skarsgård
The movie has a magnetic quality that’s all the more welcome because of all the weighty issues forming its foundation.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Rampling
There’s a lot to like about this new version of "Dune": the screenplay’s ability to pare down Frank Herbert’s complex, weighty novel without emasculating it, the epic scope, and the spectacle of the experience.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-10-08
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rory Kinnear, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, Christoph Waltz, Ben Whishaw, Lashana Lynch, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Jeffrey Wright, David Dencik
The film’s occasional overreaches aren’t always a negative; the high points are very high and, when it’s all over, most viewers will remember them.
U.S. Release Date: 2021-07-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Don Cheadle, Julia Fox, Bill Duke, Brendan Fraser, Noah Jupe, Kieran Culkin, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, Amy Seimetz, David Harbour, Benicio Del Toro, Matt Damon
Soderbergh constructs a masterful tale of escalating crime, filled with anti-heroes, outright villains, and low-key twists at every turn.