Year-End Lists

The Guardian: The 50 Best Films of 2021, drawing from films released in the US in 2021

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2017 • 2015]

1. The Power of the Dog
   Jane Campion
2. The Green Knight
   David Lowery
3. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
4. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
5. Flee
   Jonas Poher Rasmussen
6. Dune
   Denis Villeneuve
7. Licorice Pizza
   Paul Thomas Anderson
8. The Humans
   Stephen Karam
9. Azor
   Andreas Fontana
10. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
11. Belfast
    Kenneth Branagh
11. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg
12. Mass
    Fran Kranz
13. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
14. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
16. Quo Vadis, Aida?
    Jasmila Žbanić
15. No Time to Die
    Cary Joji Fukunaga
17. Getting Away with Murder(s)
    David Wilkinson
18. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove
19. Limbo
    Ben Sharrock
20. Red Rocket
    Sean Baker
21. A Cop Movie
    Alonso Ruizpalacios
22. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
23. Identifying Features
    Fernanda Valadez
24. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
25. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
26. The Killing of Two Lovers
    Robert Machoian
27. The World to Come
    Mona Fastvold
28. tick, tick... BOOM!
    Lin-Manuel Miranda
29. Procession
    Robert Greene
30. Rose Plays Julie
    Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor
31. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    Joel Coen
32. I Care a Lot
    J Blakeson
33. House of Gucci
    Ridley Scott
34. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
35. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
36. Never Gonna Snow Again
    Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert
37. Censor
    Prano Bailey-Bond
38. Annette
    Leos Carax
39. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
40. New Order
    Michel Franco
41. The Reason I Jump
    Jerry Rothwell
42. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills
43. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
44. State Funeral
    Sergei Loznitsa
45. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
46. Last Night in Soho
    Edgar Wright
47. Boiling Point
    Philip Barantini
48. Worth
    Sara Colangelo
49. Sabaya
    Hogir Hirori
50. The First Wave
    Matthew Heineman