Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
New Yorker: Justin Chang: The Best Films of 2024
more...
2021 Movies
Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2021
29 December 2021
The Film Stage
:
Top 50 Films of 2021
[see also
2023
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2022
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2018
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2017
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Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg
The Card Counter
Paul Schrader
Red Rocket
Sean Baker
Annette
Leos Carax
The Souvenir Part II
Joanna Hogg
days
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
Dune
Denis Villeneuve
Bergman Island
Mia Hansen-Løve
Titane
Julia Ducournau
Spencer
Pablo Larraín
Undine
Christian Petzold
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar
The Last Duel
Ridley Scott
The Matrix Resurrections
Lana Wachowski
In the Heights
Jon M. Chu
Zeros and Ones
Abel Ferrara
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
Aleksandre Koberidze
Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
various directors
The Beatles: Get Back
Peter Jackson
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Questlove
Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven
C'mon C'mon
Mike Mills
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Radu Jude
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Jasmila Žbanić
Mass
Fran Kranz
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Josh Greenbaum
The Green Knight
David Lowery
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson
Wife of a Spy
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Slow Machine
Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten
Passing
Rebecca Hall
Cry Macho
Clint Eastwood
All Light, Everywhere
Theo Anthony
The Woman Who Ran
Hong Sang-soo
Ema
Pablo Larraín
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen
Test Pattern
Shatara Michelle Ford
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Bad Trip
Kitao Sakurai
CODA
Sian Heder
Nine Days
Edson Oda
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese