Year-End Lists

Nick Davis: Best Films of 2021, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Notturno
   Gianfranco Rosi
2. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
3. Prayers for the Stolen
   Tatiana Huezo
4. The Orphanage
   Shahrbanoo Sadat
5. The Disciple
   Chaitanya Tamhane
6. What We Left Unfinished
   Mariam Ghani
7. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
   Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
8. Dear Comrades!
   Andrei Konchalovsky
9. Zola
   Janicza Bravo
10. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. Sweat
    Magnus von Horn
12. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills
13. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    Aleksandre Koberidze
14. No Ordinary Man
    Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt
15. Quo Vadis, Aida?
    Jasmila Žbanić
16. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
17. The Fever
    Maya Da-Rin
18. New Order
    Michel Franco
19. The Killing of Two Lovers
    Robert Machoian
20. Dune
    Denis Villeneuve