November 2021 Review: The Best Movies I Saw Last Month
Originally published December 6, 2021
Another rough month for me personally, November came and went without much fanfare. I got the chance to catch up on a lot of recent releases, which has made making my best of list much easier. While it’s getting to that point in the year where I’ve run out of a seemingly unending supply of great movies, I still managed to find a film that might just end up being my personal favorite of the year. In the end, I watched 29 movies this last month and the following are the best and worst of the lot.
BEST #3) Séance (2021); Director: Simon Barrett; United States
Please check out the full review here.
Overall Score? 7/10
BEST #2) Wait Until Dark (1967); Director: Terence Young; United States
Susy is a blind woman adjusting to life after a fire took her sight and lives with her husband Sam in an apartment complex. Unbeknownst to either of them, the body of a young woman is hidden in their apartment: the result of a heroin deal gone wrong. Two small time criminals are tasked with finding the heroin, which is hidden inside of an old doll, by the man who ordered the initial hit. They must figure out a way to retrieve the doll without alerting Suzy to their true intentions. Suzy, however, is smart and suspects that something isn’t right. But will she be too late? Wait Until Dark is an incredibly tense film that holds up extremely well, even fifty years later. Strong characters and great writing make for plenty of white-knuckle moments. Suzy is a protagonist that is easy to root for not only because of her cunning and charm but also her ability to make mistakes and learn from them just as quickly. There’s no weak link among the cast but Audrey Hepburn stands out far and away from the rest, making Suzy feel like a fully realized and genuine human. Home invasion horror with a twist that hasn’t been replicated in years makes Wait Until Dark a classic worth revisiting time and again.
Overall Score? 9/10
BEST #1) The Medium (2021); Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun; Thailand
