Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of 2021

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1. The Green Knight
   David Lowery
2. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
3. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
4. C'mon C'mon
   Mike Mills
5. Benedetta
   Paul Verhoeven
6. Nine Days
   Edson Oda
7. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
8. Licorice Pizza
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
   Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
10. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg
11. On-Gaku: Our Sound
    Kenji Iwaisawa
12. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
13. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
14. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
15. The Summit of the Gods
    Patrick Imbert
16. Sator
    Jordan Graham
17. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
18. Red Rocket
    Sean Baker
19. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
20. In the Heights
    Jon M. Chu
21. Procession
    Robert Greene
22. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
23. Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
    various directors
24. Labyrinth of Cinema
    Nobuhiko Obayashi
25. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
26. The Novice
    Lauren Hadaway
27. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
28. The Last Duel
    Ridley Scott
29. Zola
    Janicza Bravo
30. Together Together
    Nikole Beckwith
31. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    Radu Jude
32. The Hand of God
    Paolo Sorrentino
33. Undine
    Christian Petzold
34. Moffie
    Oliver Hermanus
35. The Paper Tigers
    Bao Tran
36. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
37. Plan B
    Natalie Morales
38. Listening to Kenny G
    Penny Lane
39. Judas and the Black Messiah
    Shaka King
40. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
    Mike Rianda
41. Delphine's Prayers
    Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam
42. The Dig
    Simon Stone
43. Those Who Wish Me Dead
    Taylor Sheridan
44. The Sparks Brothers
    Edgar Wright
45. Some Kind of Heaven
    Lance Oppenheim
46. Come True
    Anthony Scott Burns
47. Flee
    Jonas Poher Rasmussen
48. Raya and the Last Dragon
    Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada
49. The Beta Test
    Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe
50. Petite Maman
    Céline Sciamma