Year-End Lists

Jeffrey M. Anderson: The Ten Best Films of 2021, as published by Combustible Celluloid

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014]

1. The Tragedy of Macbeth
   Joel Coen
2. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
3. Passing
   Rebecca Hall
4. About Endlessness
   Roy Andersson
5. The Amusement Park
   George A. Romero
6. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
7. In the Heights
   Jon M. Chu
8. The Power of the Dog
   Jane Campion
9. Spencer
   Pablo Larraín
10. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski

Ten Runners-Up

• CODA
  Sian Heder
• Encanto
  Jared Bush and Byron Howard
• Last Night in Soho
  Edgar Wright
• Licorice Pizza
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Saint Maud
  Rose Glass
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
  Jon Watts
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• tick, tick... BOOM!
  Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The Truffle Hunters
  Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
• West Side Story
  Steven Spielberg

Twenty Honorable Mentions

• Belfast
  Kenneth Branagh
• Bo Burnham: Inside
  Bo Burnham
• Candyman
  Nia DaCosta
• The Card Counter
  Paul Schrader
• Censor
  Prano Bailey-Bond
• C'mon C'mon
  Mike Mills
• The French Dispatch
  Wes Anderson
• The Green Knight
  David Lowery
• The Harder They Fall
  Jeymes Samuel
• Mandibles
  Quentin Dupieux
• Old Henry
  Potsy Ponciroli
• The Old Ways
  Christopher Alender
• Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
  Mariem Pérez Riera
• Shiva Baby
  Emma Seligman
• The Sparks Brothers
  Edgar Wright
• Test Pattern
  Shatara Michelle Ford
• There Is No Evil
  Mohammad Rasoulof
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• The Vigil
  Keith Thomas
• Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Guilty Pleasures & Little Treasures

• Benedetta
  Paul Verhoeven
• Boiling Point
  Philip Barantini
• Boss Level
  Joe Carnahan
• Cowboys
  Anna Kerrigan
• Cry Macho
  Clint Eastwood
• Malignant
  James Wan
• Prisoners of the Ghostland
  Sion Sono
• Shadow in the Cloud
  Roseanne Liang
• The Suicide Squad
  James Gunn
• The Woman in the Window
  Joe Wright