11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Mass
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fran Kranz
Actors: Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd, Reed Birney, Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright
16. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Actors: Simu Liu, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Awkwafina, Fala Chen, Ben Kingsley, Meng'er Zhang
Plot: Having been raised to be a human weapon for the family business of high-profile assassination, instead Shang-Chi has left behind that life for some sense of normalcy on the streets of San Francisco. But an inevitable family reunion from his father means he will have to face his past and put his training to the ultimate test.
17. Pig
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Cassandra Violet, Julia Bray, Elijah Ungvary
Plot: After his truffle-hunting pig is kidnapped, a reclusive hunter leaves his the Oregonian wilderness behind and heads to Portland where he must find those responsible - as well as face his past.
18. 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.
19. No Time to Die
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 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.
20. 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?
