Year-End Lists

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2021 Movies

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2021

08 December 2021

Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2021

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

  1. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  2. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  3. The Green Knight
    David Lowery
  4. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
  5. Dune
    Denis Villeneuve
  6. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
  7. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
  8. Spencer
    Pablo Larraín
  9. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
  10. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
  11. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
  12. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier
  13. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
  14. Annette
    Leos Carax
  15. Petite Maman
    Céline Sciamma
  16. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  17. Flee
    Jonas Poher Rasmussen
  18. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
    Mike Rianda
  19. Limbo
    Ben Sharrock
  20. tick, tick... BOOM!
    Lin-Manuel Miranda
  21. A Hero
    Asghar Farhadi
  22. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  23. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
  24. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  25. Nightmare Alley
    Guillermo del Toro

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