Year-End Lists

Eric Hynes: Best Films of 2021, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. The Viewing Booth
   Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
2. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
   Aleksandre Koberidze
3. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
   Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
4. Procession
   Robert Greene
5. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
6. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. Annette
   Leos Carax
8. Downstream to Kinshasa
   Dieudo Hamadi
9. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
   Lili Horvát
10. Notturno
    Gianfranco Rosi
11. Benedetta
    Paul Verhoeven
12. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
13. Nina Wu
    Midi Z
14. Undine
    Christian Petzold
15. State Funeral
    Sergei Loznitsa
16. Ascension
    Jessica Kingdon
17. Atlantis
    Valentyn Vasyanovych
18. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove
19. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman
20. Red Rocket
    Sean Baker