Year-End Lists

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2021 Movies

Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2021

17 December 2021

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Film Comment: Best Films of 2021, a poll of the magazine's contributors and colleagues

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  1. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  2. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  3. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
  4. Annette
    Leos Carax
  5. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
  6. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  8. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    Aleksandre Koberidze
  9. Benedetta
    Paul Verhoeven
  10. Undine
    Christian Petzold
  11. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
    Radu Jude
  12. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
  13. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  14. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman
  15. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  16. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
  17. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
  18. The Inheritance
    Ephraim Asili
  19. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
  20. Titane
    Julia Ducournau

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