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Best Hollywood Movies of 2021 (Till April)

The summer season is approaching, but the movie industry remains in turmoil, with blockbusters not only putting back their release dates but also choosing to premiere concurrently in theaters and at home, as Disney's Cruella and Marvel's Black Widow did. It's unclear when we'll return to a true sense of cinematic normalcy, and it's likely to rely on the current vaccine rollout here and abroad. In the meantime, there is a slew of early standouts, headed by a series of overseas dramas, suspenseful thrillers, and imaginative films. You can download movies from anywhere and have fun.

For the time being, here are the best films of 2021:-

1) The Vigil: Things go terribly wrong in The Vigil for Yakov, a young man who takes a job sitting vigil for a recently dead Holocaust survivor after leaving his ultra-orthodox Jewish heritage for a secular Brooklyn life. The job not only returns him to the neighborhood he despised but also places him in the crosshairs of an evil demonic entity that has afflicted both the dead man he is watching and his wife, who acts creepily around David in her dimly lit Borough Park house. Keith Thomas’s film debut has a strong sense of isolation, as well as the trauma and tension of fleeing a religious setting, and the writer builds suspense by set-pieces that use silence to unsettling effect. Davis' frantic expression is the glue that holds this confident thriller together, giving it empathetic anguish that serves to cast the action as a portrait of facing the past as a way of transcending and escaping it.

2) Supernova: In Supernova, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci don't only create indelible images of love and grief; they often propose the invisible yet unbreakable bonds that link them together in the stillness and silence between them. The film follows Firth's Sam and Tucci's Tusker as they drive through the English countryside in an RV, with Sam's nominal destination being a comeback concert for classical pianist Sam and Tusker's intent being a farewell tour for Tusker, who is suffering from permanent early-onset dementia. Their tale is short on shocking events but heavy on calm, scarcely contained anguish and terror, which are held at bay—if not amplified—by their unwavering love. Macqueen's gentle and deft prose harmonizes with his rural imagery, helping his actors—Firth proud and pent-up; Tucci courageous and terrified—to thoroughly represent their characters' complicated emotional situations.

3) This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection: Mantoa, an 80-year-old woman whose desolate life in a rural African village is made ever more lonely by the sudden death of her minor son, has one of the saddest faces you'll ever see. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection starts with the man not returning home and ends with Mantoa reuniting with the dearly departed for whom she pines. In between, it tells a quasi-mystical fable of sorrow and loss through the narration of Jerry Mofokeng Wa Makhetha's lesiba-playing sage, as Mantoa and her compatriots experience a crisis of disconnection due to news that a dam will soon flood their land and, as a result, the cemeteries where their dead rest.

3 years ago by steverodriguez

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