Year-End Lists

A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2021, as published by The New York Times under the subhead "The 10 Best Arguments for the Importance of Movies"

1. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
   Questlove
2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
   Radu Jude
3. The Power of the Dog
   Jane Campion
4. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
5. Bring Your Own Brigade
   Lucy Walker
6. Bergman Island
   Mia Hansen-Løve
7. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
8. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
9. West Side Story
   Steven Spielberg
10. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes

Also ...

• Annette
  Leos Carax
• The Disciple
  Chaitanya Tamhane
• Flee
  Jonas Poher Rasmussen
• The Green Knight
  David Lowery
• The Hand of God
  Paolo Sorrentino
• King Richard
  Reinaldo Marcus Green
• Mogul Mowgli
  Bassam Tariq
• Parallel Mothers
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Passing
  Rebecca Hall
• El Planeta
  Amalia Ulman
• The Souvenir Part II
  Joanna Hogg
• Spencer
  Pablo Larraín
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
  Joel Coen