Year-End Lists

In Review Online: Top 25 Films of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
   Aleksandre Koberidze
2. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
4. France
   Bruno Dumont
5. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
6. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
7. West Side Story
   Steven Spielberg
8. Old
   M. Night Shyamalan
9. Malmkrog
   Cristi Puiu
10. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
11. Her Socialist Smile
    John Gianvito
12. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
13. Can't Get You Out of My Head
    Adam Curtis
14. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
    Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
15. Zack Snyder's Justice League
    Zack Snyder
16. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
17. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
18. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
19. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
20. Annette
    Leos Carax
21. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
22. Malignant
    James Wan
23. Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
    various directors
24. Siberia
    Abel Ferrara
25. Kanye With Special Guest Drake Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert
    Aus Taylor

Honorable Mentions

• Red Rocket
  Sean Baker
• Benedetta
  Paul Verhoeven
• C'mon C'mon
  Mike Mills
• Undine
  Christian Petzold
• Licorice Pizza
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Parallel Mothers
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
  Radu Jude
• Labyrinth of Cinema
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• Dune
  Denis Villeneuve
• Ema
  Pablo Larraín
• małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
  Sky Hopinka
• This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
  Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
• Red Post on Escher Street
  Sion Sono
• Beginning
  Déa Kulumbegashvili
• Just Don't Think I'll Scream
  Frank Beauvais