Year-End Lists

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2021, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, "An incomplete list of nine titles for an incomplete, pandemic year that cries out for updates and afterthoughts."

[see also Best Films of 2025 • Best Films of 2024 • Best Films of 2023 • Best Films of 2022 • Ten Best Films of 2020 • Best Films of the 2010s • Top Ten Films of 2019 • Ten Best Films of 2019 • Best Movies of 2018 • Best Movies of 2017 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 5 Films of 2015 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 10 Films of 2012 • Favorite Films of 2011]

1. First Cow
   Kelly Reichardt
2. Her Socialist Smile
   John Gianvito
3. Tiong Bahru Social Club
   Tan Bee Thiam
4. Martin und Hans
   Mark Rappaport
5. John Farrow Hollywood's Man in the Shadows
   Claude Gonzalez & Frans Vanderburg
6. While We Are Here
   Clarissa Campolina and Luiz Pretti
7. Letters from the Ends of the World
   a dozen of the first graduates of Béla Tarr’s FilmFactory
8. Uncut Gems
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
9. Cry Macho
   Clint Eastwood

This list contributes to:

• The 50 Best Films of 2021 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll