Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: Notable Film Releases of 2021, unranked but listed "in roughly the order I watched them, or in some cases the order in which I came to like them"

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2013 • 2012]

• The Salt of Tears
  Philippe Garrel
• Supernova
  Harry Macqueen
• Atlantis
  Valentyn Vasyanovych
• The Human Voice
  Pedro Almodóvar
• This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
• State Funeral
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Undine
  Christian Petzold
• No Sudden Move
  Steven Soderbergh
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• Annette
  Leos Carax
• Days
  Tsai Ming-liang
• The Card Counter
  Paul Schrader
• Parallel Mothers
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Last Night in Soho
  Edgar Wright
• Wife of a Spy
  Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Fire Music
  Tom Surgal
• The Village Detective: a song cycle
  Bill Morrison
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
  Joel Coen
• France
  Bruno Dumont
• In My Own Time: A Portrait of Karen Dalton
  Richard Peete & Robert Yapkowitz
• Memoria
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Cry Macho
  Clint Eastwood
• The French Dispatch
  Wes Anderson
• Bergman Island
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• All Is Forgiven
  Mia Hansen-Løve
• The Souvenir Part II
  Joanna Hogg
• Drive My Car
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• Licorice Pizza
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• West Side Story
  Steven Spielberg
• Nightmare Alley
  Guillermo del Toro

Honorable Films

• Land
  Robert Wright
• About Endlessness
  Roy Andersson
• Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over
  Beth B
• The French
  William Klein
• Wrath of Man
  Guy Ritchie
• This Is My Desire
  Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri
• Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
  Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz
• The Sparks Brothers
  Edgar Wright
• Pig
  Michael Sarnoski
• Dune
  Denis Villeneuve
• The Power of the Dog
  Jane Campion
• The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
  Kristina Lindström & Kristian Petri
• Titane
  Julia Ducournau
• Golden Voices
  Evgeny Ruman
• What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
  Aleksandre Koberidze
• Benedetta
  Paul Verhoeven