Year-End Lists

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2021 Movies

Rolling Stone: David Fear: 20 Best Movies of 2021

08 December 2021

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

David Fear: 20 Best Movies of 2021, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  2. The Human Voice
    Pedro Almodóvar
  3. Beginning
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  4. The Viewing Booth
    Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
  5. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
  6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    Radu Jude
  7. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
  8. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
  9. Quo Vadis, Aida?
    Jasmila Žbanić
  10. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  11. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove
  12. Saint Maud
    Rose Glass
  13. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  14. The Green Knight
    David Lowery
  15. Flee
    Jonas Poher Rasmussen
  16. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
  17. Nightmare Alley
    Guillermo del Toro
  18. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
  19. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
    Mike Rianda
  20. Dune
    Denis Villeneuve

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