2021

Film Decades: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• The Asset – directed by Martin Campbell, starring Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, & Maggie Q
• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar – directed by Josh Greenbaum, starring Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., & Wendi McLendon-Covey
• Belle* – directed by Mamoru Hosada – Japan
• The Beatles: Get Back – directed by Peter Jackson – documentary
• BIOS – directed by Miguel Sapochnik, starring Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Samira Wiley, Laura Harrier, & Skeet Ulrich
• Black Widow* – directed by Cate Shortland, starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, & Rachel Weisz
• The Boss Baby: Family Business – directed by Tom McGrath, starring the voices of Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Eva Longoria, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, & Jeff Goldblum
• Boss Level – directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, & Michelle Yeoh
• Breaking News in Yuba County – directed by Tate Taylor, starring Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Awkwafina, Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes, Juliette Lewis, Samira Wiley, Jimmi Simpson, Clifton Collins Jr., Bridget Everett, Dominic Burgess, Keong Sim, Chris Lowell, Matthew Modine & Ellen Barkin
• Chaos Walking – directed by Doug Liman, starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, & David Oyelowo
• Cherry – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, starring Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli, Jeff Wahlberg, Forrest Goodluck, & Michael Gandolfini
• Cinderella – directed by Kay Cannon, starring Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel, Billy Porter, James Corden, John Mulaney, Romesh Ranganathan, Nicholas Galitzine, Minnie Driver, & Pierce Brosnan
• Coming 2 America – directed by Craig Brewer, starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, KiKi Layne, Shari Headley, John Amos, Teyana Taylor, Wesley Snipes, & James Earl Jones
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It – directed by Michael Chaves, starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, & Julian Hilliard
• Cruella – directed by Craig Gillespie, starring Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, and Mark Strong
• The Dig – directed by Simon Stone, starring Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes & Monica Dolan
• Death on the Nile – directed by & starring Kenneth Branagh, with Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, & Letitia Wright
• Deep Water – directed by Adrian Lynne, starring Ben Affleck. Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Rachel Blanchard, Lil Rel Howery, Finn Wittrock, Jacob Elordi, Kristen Connolly, & Dash Mihok
• Dog – directed by Channing Tatum & Reid Carolin, starring Tatum & Q’orionka Kilcher
• Dune – directed by Denis Villenueve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, & Javier Bardem
• Encanto* – directed by Jared Bush & Byron Howard, starring the voices of Stephanie Beatriz, María Cecilia Botero, John Leguizamo, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, Wilmer Valderrama, & Alan Tudyk
• Eternals* – directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, & Angelina Jolie
• F9 – directed by Justin Lin, starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, John Cena, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, Helen Mirren, & Charlize Theron
• Fatherhood – directed by Paul Weitz, starring Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodard, Melody Hurd, Lil Rel Howery, Paul Reiser, & DeWanda Wise
• Flora & Ulysses – directed by Lena Khan, starring Matilda Lawler, Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwartz, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, & Danny Pudi
• Free Guy* – directed by Shawn Levy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, & Taika Waititi
• The French Dispatch* – directed by Wes Anderson, starring Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, Liev Schreiber, Elizabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, Tony Revolori, Jason Schwartzman, Rupert Friend, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Hippolyte Girardot, & Anjelica Huston
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife* – directed by Jason Reitman, starring Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, & Annie Potts
• Godzilla vs. Kong – directed by Adam Wingard, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Jessica Henwick, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, & Demián Bichir
• The Green Knight – directed by David Lowery, starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, & Ralph Ineson
• House of Gucci – directed by Ridley Scott, starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jack Huston, Salma Hayek, & Al Pacino
• The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard* – directed by Patrick Hughes, starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, & Morgan Freeman
• Hotel Transylvania 4 – directed by Jennifer Kluska & Derek Drymon, starring the voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Asher Blinkoff, Kevin James, Fran Drescher, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Keegan-Michael Key, David Spade, Sadie Sandler, Troy Baker, Kathryn Hahn, & Mel Brooks
• In the Heights – directed by John M. Chu, starring Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gregory Diaz IV, Stephanie Beatriz, Dascha Polanco, & Jimmy Smits
• Infinite – directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Mark Wahlberg, Dylan O’Brien, Sophie Cookson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones, & Chiwetel Ejiofor
• Jungle Cruise – directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Édgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, & Paul Giamatti
• The King’s Man* – directed by Matthew Vaughn, starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, & Charles Dance
• King Richard – directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, starring Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, & Dylan McDermott
• The Last Duel – directed by Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Corner, & Ben Affleck
• Last Night in Soho – directed by Edgar Wright, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Margaret Nolan, & Terence Stamp
• Licorice Pizza (2021)* – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, & Benny Safdie
• Little Fish – directed by Chad Hartigan, starring Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Raúl Castillo, & Soko
• The Little Things – directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, & Jared Leto
• Malcom & Marie – directed by Sam Levinson, starring Zendaya & John David Washington
• The Man from Toronto – directed by Patrick Hughes, starring Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Kaley Cuoco, & Pierson Fodé
• The Many Saints of Newark – directed by Alan Taylor, starring Alessandro Nivola, Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Michela De Rossi, Ray Liotta, & Vera Farmiga
• The Marksman – directed by Robert Lorenz, starring Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, & Juan Pablo Raba
• The Matrix Resurrection – directed by Lana Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Lambert Wilson, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Daniel Bernhardt, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Toby Onwumere, Max Riemelt, Eréndira Ibarra, Priyanka Chopra, Andrew Caldwell, Brian J. Smith, Ellen Hollman, & Christina Ricci
• Minimata – directed by by Andrew Levitas, starring Johnny Depp, Hiroyuki Sanada, Minami, Jun Kunimura, Tadanobu Asano, Ryo Kase, Akiko Iwase, & Bill Nighy
• Mortal Kombat – directed by Simon McQuoid, starring Ludi Lin, Joe Taslim, Tadanobu Asano, Jessica McNamee, Mehcad Brooks, Josh Lawson, Lewis Tan, Chin Han, & Hiroyuki Sanada
• The Nightingale – directed by Melanie Laurent, Dakota Fanning & Elle Fanning
• Nightmare Alley* – directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman, Mary Steenburgen, & David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Clifton Collins Jr., Jim Beaver, & Tim Blake Nelson
• Nine Days – directed by Edson Oda, starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Tony Hale, & Bill Skarsgård
• No Time to Die – directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Ana de Armas, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, & Ralph Fiennes
• Nobody – directed by Ilya Naishuller, starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, RZA, Aleksei Serebryakov, & Christopher Lloyd
• Nomadland – directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Frances McDormand, Linda May, Charlene Swankie, Bob Wells, & David Strathairn
• Old – directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Gael García Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Ken Leung, Embeth Davidtz, & Rufus Sewell
• Our Friend – directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, starring Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel, Gwendoline Christie, & Cherry Jones
• A Quiet Place Part II – directed by John Krasinski, starring Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cillian Murphy, & Djimon Hounsou
• Raya and the Last Dragon* – directed by Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada, co-directed by Paul Briggs & John Ripa, starring the voices of Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Izaac Wang, Gemma Chan, Daniel Dae Kim, Benedict Wong, Sandra Oh, Thalia Tran, Lucille Soong, & Alan Tudyk
• Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City – directed by Johannes Roberts, starring Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Avan Jogia, Hannah John-Kamen, Tom Hopper, Neal McDonough, & Donal Logue
• Respect – directed by Liesl Tommy, starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Skye Dakota Turner, Tate Donovan, & Mary J. Blige
• Samaritan – directed by Julius Avery, starring Sylvester Stallone, Martin Starr, Moisés Arias, Dascha Polanco, Pilou Asbæk, & Javon “Wanna” Walton
• Shadow in the Cloud – directed by Roseanne Liang, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Beulah Koale, Taylor John Smith, Callan Mulvey, & Nick Robinson
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings* – directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Meng’er Zhang, Fala Chen, Florian Munteanu, Benedict Wong, Michelle Yeoh, Ben Kingsley, & Tony Leung
• Sing 2 – directed by Garth Jennings, starring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Nick Kroll, Jennings, Peter Serafinowicz, Jennifer Saunders, Nick Offerman, Bobby Cannavale, Bono, Halsey, Pharrell Williams, Chelsea Peretti, Letitia Wright, & Eric André
• Space Sweepers – directed by Jo Sung-hee, starring Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu, Yoo Hae-jin, Park Ye-rin, & Richard Armitage
• Spider-Man: No Way Home* – directed by John Watts, starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, & Tobey Maguire
• Spiral: From the Book of Saw – directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rock, Max Minghella, & Marisol Nichols
• Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street – directed by Marilyn Agrelo – documentary
• The Suicide Squad* – directed by James Gunn, starring Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Peter Capaldi, Sylvester Stallone, & Viola Davis
• Tom & Jerry – directed by Tim Story, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Rob Delaney, & Ken Jeong
• The Tomorrow War – directed by Chris McKay, starring Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, Betty Gilpin, Keith Powers, Mike Mitchell, Sam Richardson, & J.K. Simmons
• The Tragedy of Macbeth – directed by Joel Coen, starring Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Corey Hawkins, Harry Melling, Kathryn Hunter, & Brendan Gleeson
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent* – directed by Tom Gormican, starring Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Sharon Horgan, Tiffany Haddish & Neil Patrick Harris
• The United States vs. Billie Holiday – directed by Lee Daniels, starring Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Natasha Lyonne, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, & Garrett Hedlund
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage – directed by Andy Serkis, starring Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Reid Scott, & Naomie Harris
• West Side Story – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Maddie Ziegler, & Rita Moreno
• Without Remorse – directed by Stefano Sollima, starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Luke Mitchell, Jack Kesy, Brett Gelman, & Colman Domingo
• Wrath of Man – directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Scott Eastwood, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso, & Josh Hartnett

Film Decades: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029