Year-End Lists

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2021 Movies

Rolling Stone: K. Austin Collins: Top 25 Movies of 2021

23 December 2021

Benedetta - Paul Verhoeven

K. Austin Collins: Top 25 Movies of 2021, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

  1. Benedetta
    Paul Verhoeven
  2. Hidden
    Jafar Panahi
  3. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
  4. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  6. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
  7. France
    Bruno Dumont
  8. Procession
    Robert Greene
  9. Test Pattern
    Shatara Michelle Ford
  10. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
  11. Beginning
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
  12. North by Current
    Angelo Madsen Minax
  13. Zola
    Janicza Bravo
  14. The Green Knight
    David Lowery
  15. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
  16. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
  17. Memoria
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  18. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
  19. Wojnarowicz
    Chris McKim
  20. Isabella
    Matías Piñeiro
  21. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
  22. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg
  23. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  24. Wild Indian
    Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.
  25. Zeros and Ones
    Abel Ferrara
  26. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
  27. C'mon C'mon
    Mike Mills

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