Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
For the Win: Cory Woodroof: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
more...
2021 Movies
Polygon: The Best Movies of 2021
29 December 2021
Polygon
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The Best Movies of 2021
[see also
2024
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2023
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2022
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2019
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Annette
Leos Carax
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Josh Greenbaum
Bo Burnham: Inside
Bo Burnham
CODA
Sian Heder
Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Encanto
Jared Bush and Byron Howard
Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
various directors
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson
The Green Knight
David Lowery
Identifying Features
Fernanda Valadez
In the Heights
Jon M. Chu
Judas and the Black Messiah
Shaka King
Nine Days
Edson Oda
No Sudden Move
Steven Soderbergh
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
Pig
Michael Sarnoski
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Lili Horvát
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman
Spencer
Pablo Larraín
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
tick, tick... BOOM!
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Titane
Julia Ducournau
Zola
Janicza Bravo
