Staff Picks: Inauguration Edition 2021
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!

Leo is a hardworking mail courier saving every penny for college—until his reckless brother Donald racks up a massive debt with the mob and is left for dead on his doorstep. Desperate to save him, Leo gives up his entire college fund, but it’s not enough. With time running out, he takes a wild gamble: entering the Mr. Miami bodybuilding championship, despite having zero experience. As he trains against all odds, Leo is thrown into a high-stakes world of muscle, mayhem, and mob pressure—where winning isn’t just about pride, but survival.
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!
With the theme of unemployment, it presents a family fantasy anecdote rather the a comment on social problems.
Make no mistake about it, Gilligan has created a continuation that earns its place in the annals of Breaking Bad lore. El Camino isn't a forced entry in an otherwise brilliant world of fiction. This is a satisfying take, which manages to give closure to an iconic character of fiction.
When science, Bruce Banner is exposed to gamma radiation from his experiment, he transforms into a gigantic green monster when he gets angry and wreaks havoc wherever he goes.
This is ambitious horror filmmaking, and in a lot of ways, I fully admire its ambitions. For me, the film’s sloppiness defines its overall quality.
Like all modern societal phenomenons, it started with a meme. This one highlighted that when there’s a mom in a Pixar film, she is almost without fail given striking curves that highlight the bottom half of her body following a minuscule waist. From Elastigirl to the skeletal Mama Imelda, the animation giant’s artists seem to have a fixation on making exaggeratedly curvy maternal characters.