2021

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171 Reviews

14 Lists

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Best Films of 2021

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These are the films released in 2021 that I have rated four…

  • Dune
  • CODA
  • The Mauritanian
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • King Richard
  • Belfast
  • Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • West Side Story
  • tick, tick...BOOM!
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Titane
  • Spencer
  • Last Night in Soho
  • Cruella
  • TINA
  • Encanto
  • Squid Game

Films by week

Jan Dec
  • 341 Films watched
  • 28.4 Average per month
  • 6.6 Average per week

Milestones

First Film

Destination Tokyo

Jan 1

Most Watched

Jungle Cruise

twice

Cruella

twice

To Die For

twice

Soul

twice

Cannibal! The Musical

twice

Last Film

Movie 43

Dec 31

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Caught My Eye - 2021 Release Dates

TajLV

New releases of interest in 2021 (updated 12/06/21). These are the films…

  • Pieces of a Woman
  • Cruella
  • In the Heights
  • Zola
  • Black Widow
  • Jungle Cruise
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Respect
  • Free Guy
  • Reminiscence
  • The Protégé
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • The Card Counter
  • Blue Bayou
  • The Many Saints of Newark
  • Titane
  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage
  • No Time to Die
  • Dune
  • The Last Duel

My Autumn Rewatches 5.2

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Unlike my earlier list, Rewatches 5.1, I built this list as I…

  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Cruella
  • The Santa Clause
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Bridget Jones's Diary
  • Animal House
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • The Odd Couple
  • Desk Set
  • WALL·E
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Soul
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Corpse Bride
  • To Die For
  • Cannibal! The Musical
  • Mister Roberts
  • They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
  • Die Hard

Wild West Summer 2021

TajLV

Making up for my late start last year by getting a jump…

  • Monte Walsh
  • Sergeant Rutledge
  • Riders of Destiny
  • News of the World
  • Never Grow Old
  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
  • Black Robe
  • The Girl of the Golden West
  • Love Comes Softly
  • The Revengers
  • American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James
  • The White Buffalo
  • Night Passage
  • Cannibal! The Musical
  • Mohawk
  • Savage State
  • White Comanche
  • The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
  • Reel Injun
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

March Around The World | 2021 Challenge

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It's my seventh year of participating in Lise's challenge to watch and…

  • Top of the Lake
  • Sócrates
  • Jinpa
  • Guilty Men
  • The Load
  • Boy on the Bridge
  • Exit Plan
  • Woodpeckers
  • The Soft Skin
  • The American Friend
  • Lumumba
  • The Big Boss
  • Avichi
  • Eliana, Eliana
  • Red Cow
  • Close-Up
  • Loose Cannons
  • Happy Hour
  • Grab and Run
  • Sonja: The White Swan

52 Films By Women 2021

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This is year six for me participating in this annual challenge, I…

  • Rogue
  • The Holiday
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  • Selma
  • Kajillionaire
  • Female Perversions
  • 7 Boxes
  • Proxima
  • Ruby Bridges
  • Fear of Rain
  • John Lewis: Good Trouble
  • Top of the Lake
  • Kiss the Ground
  • A League of Their Own
  • Yellow Rose
  • Promising Young Woman
  • On the Basis of Sex
  • The Heartbreak Kid
  • Caramel

Letterboxd Season Challenge: 2020-21

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For the fifth time I am participating in this annual event, but…

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • The Station Agent
  • A Patch of Blue
  • The Lovers on the Bridge
  • I Knew Her Well
  • Spring
  • Thirst
  • Sea Fever
  • Quadrophenia
  • I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
  • Simon Killer
  • Samson and Delilah
  • I Killed My Mother
  • Color Out of Space
  • Catch-22
  • Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
  • Ponyo
  • Female Perversions
  • The Battle of the River Plate
  • Lemonade Joe

Genres, countries & languages

Drama
195 films
Comedy
79 films
Thriller
62 films
Romance
55 films
Action
46 films
Crime
45 films
Sci Fi
34 films
Adventure
33 films
Western
32 films
History
28 films
USA
242 films
UK
51 films
France
22 films
Canada
22 films
Germany
17 films
Spain
9 films
Mexico
6 films
Argentina
5 films
Australia
5 films
Ireland
4 films
English
299 films
Spanish
43 films
French
35 films
German
21 films
Italian
18 films
Japanese
11 films
Latin
10 films
Russian
9 films
Portuguese
7 films
Chinese
6 films

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TajLV’s most liked review

Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up 2021

★★★ 50 likes

As pure satire, it works. And the analogy to COVID that most folks seem to see here may be intentional, but the parallel to society's treatment of global warming seems even stronger.

Fact: The planet is in peril.
Reaction: Tell the voters we're okay.
Counteraction: Find scientists to refute the…

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Autumn Rewatch Challenge 2021

1 film   23 likes

Now entering its fifth year, the season for nostalgia begins once more. And again we will be revisiting some of our favorite films all autumn long. To participate, choose 20 previously viewed films and watch them again before the Winter Solstice arrives on December 21. Following is a list of…

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Highs and lows

Highest Average

A Brighter Summer Day
Average weighted rating:

4.4

Lowest Average

Jiu Jitsu
Average weighted rating:

1.4

Most Popular

Spider-Man: No Way Home
Average weighted rating:

4.1

Most Obscure

Journey Into Buddhism: Prajna Earth

Films TajLV watched in 2021

  • Movie 43
  • Jungle Cruise
  • Bridget Jones's Diary
  • At First Light
  • Sealed Cargo
  • American Underdog
  • The Matrix Resurrections
  • The Power of the Dog
  • Don't Look Up
  • A Foreign Affair
  • Desk Set
  • Tango
  • The Santa Clause
  • Wake Island
  • Nightmare Alley
  • The King's Man
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
  • Nightmare Alley
  • Being the Ricardos
  • Reindeer Games
  • The Truce
  • CSNY 1974
  • One Night in Miami...
  • Stillwater
  • West Side Story
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Bubbles
  • Skip to My Lou
  • Yes, God, Yes
  • Exodus
  • Dreamscape
  • The Young and the Damned
  • Nothing But the Truth
  • Peeping Tom
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  • Synchronic
  • Die Hard
  • Never Goin' Back
  • Queen Bees
  • Space Jam: A New Legacy
  • Bastard Out of Carolina
  • The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
  • The Song of Names
  • Candyman
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • House of Gucci
  • King Richard
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Gia
  • Desert Hearts
  • Warning
  • Belfast
  • Spencer
  • Those Who Wish Me Dead
  • Cruella
  • Needle in a Timestack
  • Last Night in Soho
  • Eternals
  • The Green Knight
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • The Sea Wolf
  • The Last Duel
  • The French Dispatch
  • Squid Game
  • Old
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Corpse Bride
  • I'm Not Here
  • Dune
  • Blush
  • The Odd Couple
  • No Time to Die
  • Venom: Let There Be Carnage
  • Such Is Life in the Tropics
  • Titane
  • Love, Gilda
  • The Many Saints of Newark
  • Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
  • Too Late for Tears
  • Animal House
  • Awake
  • The Official Story
  • House of Sand and Fog
  • To Die For
  • Now, Voyager
  • I Remember Mama
  • The Boss Baby: Family Business
  • Precious Templeton: A Pony Tale
  • Infidel
  • Soul
  • Cannibal! The Musical
  • A Night in Casablanca
  • So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck
  • Acrobatty Bunny
  • Blue Bayou
  • Ode to Billy Joe
  • Deception
  • They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
  • Habit
  • But I'm a Cheerleader
  • Journey Into Buddhism: Vajra Sky Over Tibet
  • The Card Counter
  • Journey Into Buddhism: Prajna Earth
  • A Summer Place
  • The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
  • Little 'Tinker
  • Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
  • Oxygen
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • None But the Lonely Heart
  • Till the Clouds Roll By
  • Mister Roberts
  • Glimpses of California
  • Henpecked Hoboes
  • To Die For
  • The Protégé
  • Sand Dollars
  • The Pale Door
  • Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
  • Dreamland
  • WALL·E
  • Love Comes Softly
  • Black Robe
  • Reminiscence
  • Reel Injun
  • The Yellow Birds
  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • Free Guy
  • The War with Grandpa
  • Monte Walsh
  • Respect
  • Voyagers
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • A Quiet Place Part II
  • Savage State
  • The Suicide Squad
  • Cannibal! The Musical
  • Dolemite Is My Name
  • Wrath of Man
  • The Gay Parisian
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
  • Neighboring Sounds
  • Jungle Cruise
  • The Green Hornet
  • Eletrodoméstica
  • Never Grow Old
  • Walk Don't Run
  • Housekeeping
  • The White Buffalo
  • American Bandits: Frank and Jesse James
  • Man on a Ledge
  • The Snake Pit
  • Nobody
  • Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
  • The Traveler
  • Ride in the Whirlwind
  • Honest Thief
  • A Bug's Life
  • Night Passage
  • Sergeant Rutledge
  • Naughty Marietta
  • Black Widow
  • See You Yesterday
  • Ammonite
  • Judas and the Black Messiah
  • The Theory of Everything
  • The Shooting
  • The Girl of the Golden West
  • Godzilla vs. Kong
  • Paris Trout
  • Murder, My Sweet
  • Close-Up
  • Exit Plan
  • West Side Story
  • French Exit
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Stairway to Light
  • Quiet Please!
  • Zola
  • Boy on the Bridge
  • The Revengers
  • The Magnificent Seven
  • The Father
  • Elyse
  • The Forsaken Land
  • Vincent & Theo
  • Vincent
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Anne of the Thousand Days
  • White Comanche
  • Parenthood
  • Mohawk
  • The Nest
  • Sheriff of Tombstone
  • In the Heights
  • Fatale
  • Knock Down the House
  • Radium Girls
  • Red Cow
  • The Harvey Girls
  • The Mauritanian

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Highly rated films TajLV is yet to see

  • Euphoria: F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob
  • Come From Away
  • Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
  • Bo Burnham: Inside
  • Monica and Friends: Lessons
  • The Worst Person in the World
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  • Yuni

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