Year-End Lists

Scout Tafoya: My Favourite Films of 2021

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. West Side Story
   Steven Spielberg
2. The Matrix Resurrections
   Lana Wachowski
3. Benediction
   Terence Davies
4. The Card Counter
   Paul Schrader
5. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
   Radu Jude
7. Labyrinth of Cinema
   Nobuhiko Obayashi
8. Faya Dayi
   Jessica Beshir
9. The Souvenir Part II
   Joanna Hogg
10. Unclenching the Fists
    Kira Kovalenko
11. Ste. Anne
    Rhayne Vermette
12. Hit the Road
    Panah Panahi
13. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
    Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
14. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
15. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
16. No Sudden Move
    Steven Soderbergh
17. Old
    M. Night Shyamalan
18. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
19. Annette
    Leos Carax
20. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills
21. Benedetta
    Paul Verhoeven
22. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
23. Mad God
    Phil Tippett
24. The Spine of Night
    Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King
25. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
26. France
    Bruno Dumont
27. Procession
    Robert Greene
28. Wrath of Man
    Guy Ritchie
29. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
30. A Crime on the Bayou
    Nancy Buirski
31. Sabaya
    Hogir Hirori
32. Zeros and Ones
    Abel Ferrara
33. The Village Detective: a song cycle
    Bill Morrison
34. Babi Yar. Context
    Sergei Loznitsa
35. State Funeral
    Sergei Loznitsa
36. The World to Come
    Mona Fastvold
37. Oxygen
    Alexandre Aja
38. The Novice
    Lauren Hadaway
39. The Last Thing Mary Saw
    Edoardo Vitaletti
40. Blind Body
    Allison Chhorn
41. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman
42. Exterminate All the Brutes
    Raoul Peck
43. Cry Macho
    Clint Eastwood
44. In the Earth
    Ben Wheatley
45. Come Here
    Anocha Suwichakornpong
46. The Last Duel
    Ridley Scott
47. The North Water
    Andrew Haigh
48. The Deep House
    Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
49. Kandisha
    Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
50. Cityscape
    Michael Snow
51. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony
52. The Harder They Fall
    Jeymes Samuel
53. 29 Needles
    Scott Philip Goergens
54. Wife of a Spy
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
55. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
56. The Night House
    David Bruckner
57. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    Lee Daniels
58. Jungle Cruise
    Jaume Collet-Serra
59. A Weave of Light
    Bram Ruiter
60. Marx Can Wait
    Marco Bellocchio
61. Mariner of the Mountains
    Karim Aïnouz
62. The Cursed
    Sean Ellis
63. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
64. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
65. In Place of Monuments
    Naima Ramos-Chapman
66. We're All Going to the World's Fair
    Jane Schoenbrun
67. What We Left Unfinished
    Mariam Ghani
68. Sator
    Jordan Graham
69. Taming the Garden
    Salomé Jashi
70. Belle
    Mamoru Hosoda
71. A Glitch in the Matrix
    Rodney Ascher
72. The Beatles: Get Back
    Peter Jackson
73. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
74. Paris, 13th District
    Jacques Audiard
75. Seance
    Simon Barrett
76. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    Joel Coen
77. Moon, 66 Questions
    Jacqueline Lentzou
78. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
79. The Empty Man
    David Prior
80. V/H/S/94
    Jennifer Reeder, Chloe Okuno, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, and Ryan Prows
81. Bingo Hell
    Gigi Saul Guerrero
82. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
83. Lisey's Story
    Pablo Larraín
84. News of the World
    Paul Greengrass
85. When I Get Home (Director's Cut)
    Solange Knowles
86. The Banishing
    Christopher Smith
87. The Mad Women's Ball
    Mélanie Laurent
88. The American Sector
    Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez
89. May June July
    Kevin Jerome Everson
90. Censor
    Prano Bailey-Bond
91. Kingdom: Ashin of the North
    Kim Seong-hun
92. Prisoners of the Ghostland
    Sion Sono
93. All the Moons
    Igor Legarreta
94. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
    William Eubank
95. The Forever Purge
    Everardo Valerio Gout
96. Cow
    Andrea Arnold
97. Hell Hath No Fury
    Jesse V. Johnson
98. Joy Ride
    Bobcat Goldthwait
99. Skyfire
    Simon West
100. The Ice Road
     Jonathan Hensleigh