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2021 Movies

New Yorker: Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2021

02 December 2021

The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson

Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2021, as published by The New Yorker

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  1. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
  2. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  3. Zola
    Janicza Bravo
  4. I Was a Simple Man
    Christopher Makoto Yogi
  5. In the Same Breath
    Nanfu Wang
  6. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills
  7. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
  8. Koozhangal
    P.S. Vinothraj
  9. Petite Maman
    Céline Sciamma
  10. Procession
    Robert Greene
  11. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
  12. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
  13. Being the Ricardos
    Aaron Sorkin
  14. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
  15. The American Sector
    Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez
  16. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony
  17. A Cop Movie
    Alonso Ruizpalacios
  18. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
    Jia Zhang-ke
  19. Listening to Kenny G
    Penny Lane
  20. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  21. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
  22. Uppercase Print
    Radu Jude
  23. Little Girl
    Sébastien Lifshitz
  24. Cry Macho
    Clint Eastwood
  25. Exterminate All the Brutes
    Raoul Peck
  26. Paris Calligrammes
    Ulrike Ottinger
  27. The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    various artists
  28. You Will Die at Twenty
    Amjad Abu Alala
  29. France
    Bruno Dumont
  30. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
  31. Test Pattern
    Shatara Michelle Ford
  32. No Ordinary Man
    Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt
  33. Isabella
    Matías Piñeiro
  34. There Is No Evil
    Mohammad Rasoulof
  35. Wojnarowicz
    Chris McKim

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