Most Anticipated Movies of 2021

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Hopefully 2021 things will start going back to normal, but it will be a slow process. Cinemas are still mostly closed around the world, so a lot of these movies will be seen at home. And as many of you know, a lot of 2020 movies were pushed back to 2021 and 2022, so some films that were on my Most Anticipated Movies of 2020 list will re-appear here.

First up, here’s some honorable mentions: Black Widow, Eternals, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, Blonde, Don’t Look Up, and Encanto

Top 10 Movies of 2020

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2020 is finally over! It’s been quite the year to say the least. A lot of movies were pushed back, so my top 10 list this year consists of some smaller fair. I also haven’t had the chance to fully review each movie on this list now that I have a full time job, so I will provide a mini-review for those.

First up, here’s some Honorable Mentions: The Glorias, Wolfwalkers, and Palm Springs

Soul (2020)

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Soul follows Joe Gardener (Jaime Foxx), a band teacher, who is finally getting the big gig he has been waiting for. But later that day, Joe gets into an accident and dies. His soul travels to the Great Beyond, but he escapes to the Great Before as he is not ready to die. He teams up with another soul, named 22 (Tina Fey), in order to try to get back to his life on Earth.

WW84 (2020)

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Wonder Woman 1984 follows Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) as she and a new co-worker, Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), discover a new stone that has the ability to grant wishes. Both Diana and Barbara make a wish on the stone, but as the stone falls into the notorious and power-hungry hands of Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), it leads him to wreck chaos all over the world.

Mank (Netflix – 2020)

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Mank follows Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who is fed up with his MGM studio colleagues for rigging the California governor’s election. While recovering from a car accident, Mankiewicz is rushed to finish the screenplay for Citizen Kane.

Happiest Season (Hulu – 2020)

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Happiest Season follows Abby (Kristen Stewart) as she is invited to her girlfriend’s, Harper (Mackenzie Davis), house to Christmas. The problem is that Harper has not come out to her family yet, so both she and Abby must pretend to not be together.

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix)

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The Haunting of Bly Manor is the second installment of The Haunting series that follows Dani (Victoria Pedretti) as she travels to England and takes a nanny job for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Amelie Bea Smith). However, her new job proves to be perilous as there are ghosts lurking around her new home.

Enola Holmes (Netflix – 2020)

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Enola Holmes follows Sherlock Holmes’ sister, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) who finds that her mother is missing one evening. Enola is set on finding her and embarks on doing so without her brothers help.

Tenet (2020)

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Tenet follows a CIA agent (John David Washington) who discovers that someone is sending weapons back in time, which causing them to invert. He must learn how inversion works and will have to travel backwards in time in order to prevent the end of the world.

Mulan (2020)

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Mulan is the latest Disney live-action remake that is not playing in theaters in the U.S. right now. The film is based on the Ballad of Hua Mulan where a young girl joins the Imperial Chinese army disguised as a man in order to protect her aging father and ends up saving China.