Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2021 Movies

Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2021

03 December 2021

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? - Aleksandre Koberidze

Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2021, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

  1. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    Aleksandre Koberidze
  2. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
  3. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  4. Petite Maman
    Céline Sciamma
  5. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman
  6. We
    Alice Diop
  7. The Tsugua Diaries
    Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
  8. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
  9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  10. Il Buco
    Michelangelo Frammartino
  11. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills
  12. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  13. Benediction
    Terence Davies
  14. The Sacred Spirit
    Chema García Ibarra
  15. Beginning
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  16. Belle
    Mamoru Hosoda
  17. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
  18. Brother’s Keeper
    Ferit Karahan
  19. I Want to Talk About Duras
    Claire Simon
  20. Prayers for the Stolen
    Tatiana Huezo
  21. The Fever
    Maya Da-Rin

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