Year-End Lists

Nell Minow: Top Ten Films of 2021, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2016]

• Belfast
  Kenneth Branagh
• The Card Counter
  Paul Schrader
• Cyrano
  Joe Wright
• C'mon C'mon
  Mike Mills
• Don't Look Up
  Adam McKay
• Nine Days
  Edson Oda
• The Outside Story
  Casimir Nozkowski
• Passing
  Rebecca Hall
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
  Joel Coen

More of the best of the year

• King Richard
  Reinaldo Marcus Green
• West Side Story
  Steven Spielberg
• Raya and the Last Dragon
  Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada
• Encanto
  Jared Bush and Byron Howard
• CODA
  Sian Heder
• The Green Knight
  David Lowery
• Jockey
  Clint Bentley
• The Mitchells vs. the Machines
  Mike Rianda
• Mass
  Fran Kranz
• Come from Away
  Christopher Ashley
• Count Me In
  Mark Lo
• The Tender Bar
  George Clooney

This list contributes to:

• The Ten Best Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com