Year-End Lists
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of notable year-end lists.
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Highlights
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
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2021 Movies
Robert Daniels: Top 50 Films of 2021
07 January 2022
Robert Daniels
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Top 50 Films of 2021
[see also
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2020
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2019
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The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Lili Horvát
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar
Titane
Julia Ducournau
Spencer
Pablo Larraín
The Gaze
Barry Jenkins
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Pig
Michael Sarnoski
Identifying Features
Fernanda Valadez
The Green Knight
David Lowery
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Radu Jude
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman
Faya Dayi
Jessica Beshir
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Rescue
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
Nine Days
Edson Oda
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Questlove
Passing
Rebecca Hall
A Hero
Asghar Farhadi
CODA
Sian Heder
Attica
Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry
The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Holler
Nicole Riegel
Limbo
Ben Sharrock
Test Pattern
Shatara Michelle Ford
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen
Pink Skies Ahead
Kelly Oxford
The Card Counter
Paul Schrader
The Woman in the Window
Joe Wright
A Crime on the Bayou
Nancy Buirski
Zola
Janicza Bravo
The Mad Women's Ball
Mélanie Laurent
Together Together
Nikole Beckwith
Really Love
Angel Kristi Williams
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Will Sharpe
Riders of Justice
Anders Thomas Jensen
The Summit of the Gods
Patrick Imbert
Jockey
Clint Bentley
The Legend of the Underground
Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey
Shadow Kingdom: The Early Songs of Bob Dylan
Alma Har'el
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Sam Pollard
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Betsy West and Julie Cohen
In the Same Breath
Nanfu Wang
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Matrix Resurrections
Lana Wachowski
The Year of the Everlasting Storm
various artists
The Novice
Lauren Hadaway
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Andy Serkis
Honorable mentions
17 Blocks
Davy Rothbart
Citizen Ashe
Rex Miller and Sam Pollard
Cyrano
Joe Wright
I Blame Society
Gillian Wallace Horvat
Julia
Luzzu
Alex Camilleri
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
Operation Hyacinth
Piotr Domalewski
The Outside Story
Casimir Nozkowski
Procession
Robert Greene
Swan Song
Todd Stephens
Raging Fire
Benny Chan
This list contributes to:
RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2021