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2021 Movies
Scout Tafoya: My Favourite Films of 2021
18 January 2022
Scout Tafoya
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My Favourite Films of 2021
[see also
2018
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2017
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2016
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West Side Story
Steven Spielberg
The Matrix Resurrections
Lana Wachowski
Benediction
Terence Davies
The Card Counter
Paul Schrader
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
Radu Jude
Labyrinth of Cinema
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Faya Dayi
Jessica Beshir
The Souvenir Part II
Joanna Hogg
Unclenching the Fists
Kira Kovalenko
Ste. Anne
Rhayne Vermette
Hit the Road
Panah Panahi
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson
No Sudden Move
Steven Soderbergh
Old
M. Night Shyamalan
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
Annette
Leos Carax
C'mon C'mon
Mike Mills
Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar
Mad God
Phil Tippett
The Spine of Night
Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King
Il Buco
Michelangelo Frammartino
France
Bruno Dumont
Procession
Robert Greene
Wrath of Man
Guy Ritchie
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
A Crime on the Bayou
Nancy Buirski
Sabaya
Hogir Hirori
Zeros and Ones
Abel Ferrara
The Village Detective: a song cycle
Bill Morrison
Babi Yar. Context
Sergei Loznitsa
State Funeral
Sergei Loznitsa
The World to Come
Mona Fastvold
Oxygen
Alexandre Aja
The Novice
Lauren Hadaway
The Last Thing Mary Saw
Edoardo Vitaletti
Blind Body
Allison Chhorn
El Planeta
Amalia Ulman
Exterminate All the Brutes
Raoul Peck
Cry Macho
Clint Eastwood
In the Earth
Ben Wheatley
Come Here
Anocha Suwichakornpong
The Last Duel
Ridley Scott
The North Water
Andrew Haigh
The Deep House
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
Kandisha
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo
Cityscape
Michael Snow
All Light, Everywhere
Theo Anthony
The Harder They Fall
Jeymes Samuel
29 Needles
Scott Philip Goergens
Wife of a Spy
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Drive My Car
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Night House
David Bruckner
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Lee Daniels
Jungle Cruise
Jaume Collet-Serra
A Weave of Light
Bram Ruiter
Marx Can Wait
Marco Bellocchio
Mariner of the Mountains
Karim Aïnouz
The Cursed
Sean Ellis
Pig
Michael Sarnoski
Shiva Baby
Emma Seligman
In Place of Monuments
Naima Ramos-Chapman
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Jane Schoenbrun
What We Left Unfinished
Mariam Ghani
Sator
Jordan Graham
Taming the Garden
Salomé Jashi
Belle
Mamoru Hosoda
A Glitch in the Matrix
Rodney Ascher
The Beatles: Get Back
Peter Jackson
The Velvet Underground
Todd Haynes
Paris, 13th District
Jacques Audiard
Seance
Simon Barrett
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Joel Coen
Moon, 66 Questions
Jacqueline Lentzou
Passing
Rebecca Hall
The Empty Man
David Prior
V/H/S/94
Jennifer Reeder, Chloe Okuno, Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, and Ryan Prows
Bingo Hell
Gigi Saul Guerrero
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier
Lisey's Story
Pablo Larraín
News of the World
Paul Greengrass
When I Get Home (Director's Cut)
Solange Knowles
The Banishing
Christopher Smith
The Mad Women's Ball
Mélanie Laurent
The American Sector
Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez
May June July
Kevin Jerome Everson
Censor
Prano Bailey-Bond
Kingdom: Ashin of the North
Kim Seong-hun
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Sion Sono
All the Moons
Igor Legarreta
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
William Eubank
The Forever Purge
Everardo Valerio Gout
Cow
Andrea Arnold
Hell Hath No Fury
Jesse V. Johnson
Joy Ride
Bobcat Goldthwait
Skyfire
Simon West
The Ice Road
Jonathan Hensleigh