Category: Movies 2021

After only being able to watch 65 films in theaters in 2020 due to the China Virus, Top Pun Reviews came back with a flood of new films as I was able to beat my personal all time record of 123 films in 2019. In 2021, I was able to watch 139 films in theaters, … Continue reading The Best/Worst of Film in 2021: A Year in Review

https://youtu.be/rt-2cxAiPJk 8.5/10 The MCU has been on life support throughout Phase 4 as they’ve either had to retread older heroes or they introduced new ones that have completely failed to make an impact. Kevin Feige has prioritized woke, political correctness over telling good stories and the MCU has suffered for it. Yet in crawls my … Continue reading #139 Film in 2021: Spider-Man: No Way Home

https://youtu.be/A5GJLwWiYSg 6.5/10 Winner of 10 out of the 11 Academy Awards it was nominated for, including Best Director and Best Picture, 1961’s “West Side Story” is an absolute musical classic that holds up extremely well. I’ve seen the film many times but gave it yet another look before checking out the Steven Spielberg directed remake. … Continue reading #138 Film in 2021: West Side Story

https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI 2.5/10 My 5th most anticipated film of 2021, “Don’t Look Up” will go down as one of the most disappointing movies of the year. My excitement came from the impressive cast and writer/director Adam McKay, who has made some of the funniest modern comedies (“Step Brothers”, “The Other Guys”) as well as his best … Continue reading #137 Film in 2021: Don’t Look Up

https://youtu.be/7mzushAOM88 3/10 When I first heard that Joaquin Phoenix’s first follow up role to his Best Actor Oscar winning performance in “Joker” was going to be a movie called “C’Mon C’Mon”, I was excited to see how one of the best working actors today would follow up such an iconic and impressive role. Phoenix overall … Continue reading #136 Film in 2021: C’Mon C’Mon

https://youtu.be/oG1xjm0GZgQ 5/10 The story of a man who thinks he is a wolf and is sent to a mental health facility with other patients who suffer from species dysmorphia, “Wolf” has some interesting ideas but ends up without much new to say and doesn’t know how to end its story. I was curious to see … Continue reading #135 Film in 2021: Wolf

https://youtu.be/WvrjCdtB0zM 6/10 I’m a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin as a screenwriter and even his recent transition to director. His dialogue is lightning fast and immersive, “The Social Network” is one of the best screenplays of all time and his directorial debut, “Molly’s Game” is one of the best films of the last decade. I … Continue reading #134 Film in 2021: Being the Ricardos

https://youtu.be/n-31QJXV3iA 7/10 83-year-old director Paul Verhoeven has never shied away from sexually graphic and/or violent content in his films going back to “Robocop”, “Starship Troopers”, “Showgirls”, etc. After a five year break since his last film, Verhoeven returns with an entertaining, well made but extremely blasphemous film inspired by true events. As a warning to … Continue reading #133 Film in 2021: Benedetta

https://youtu.be/JNUjx7LZoiU 6.5/10 Another example of a film where the shills AKA “critics” of Rotten Tomatoes have gotten it wrong, “The Unforgivable” was a film I went into with low expectations but found myself pleasantly surprised, despite some flaws. For full disclosure, I completely forgot that this was based upon a TV series from 2009 entitled … Continue reading #132 Film in 2021: The Unforgivable

https://youtu.be/ahZFCF--uRY 4.5/10 After the cinematic abortion and one of the worst movies of the past decade (and no, I am not exaggerating) with 2016’s “Ghostbusters”, Columbia Pictures wanted to keep the franchise alive but distance itself from the atrocity of the last movie which ended up being about as funny as the Holocaust. While “Ghostbusters: … Continue reading #131 Film in 2021: Ghostbusters: Afterlife