Year-End Lists

Todd McCarthy: Best Movies Of 2021, as published by Deadline Hollywood

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

• Red Rocket
  Sean Baker
• Petite Maman
  Céline Sciamma
• Quo Vadis, Aida?
  Jasmila Žbanić
• The Worst Person in the World
  Joachim Trier
• West Side Story
  Steven Spielberg
• Jockey
  Clint Bentley
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• Licorice Pizza
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Nightmare Alley
  Guillermo del Toro
• Dune
  Denis Villeneuve

honorable mentions, in no particular order

• The Power of the Dog
  Jane Campion
• Parallel Mothers
  Pedro Almodóvar
• The Rescue
  Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin
• The Man Who Sold His Skin
  Kaouther Ben Hania
• King Richard
  Reinaldo Marcus Green
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• The Green Knight
  David Lowery
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
  Joel Coen
• The Card Counter
  Paul Schrader
• CODA
  Sian Heder
• Pig
  Michael Sarnoski
• The Humans
  Stephen Karam
• The Hand of God
  Paolo Sorrentino
• Titane
  Julia Ducournau