Year-End Lists

Nicolas Rapold: Best Films of 2021, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed mostly alphabetically

1. Annette
   Leos Carax
2. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
   Radu Jude
3. Friends and Strangers
   James Vaughan
4. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
5. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. El Planeta
   Amalia Ulman
7. The Souvenir Part II
   Joanna Hogg
8. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
   Questlove
9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
10. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo

Honorable Mentions

• The Power of the Dog
  Jane Campion
• Parallel Mothers
  Pedro Almodóvar
• The French Dispatch
  Wes Anderson
• Mr. Bachmann and His Class
  Maria Speth
• Zola
  Janicza Bravo
• Azor
  Andreas Fontana
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• The Lost Daughter
  Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Procession
  Robert Greene
• The Beta Test
  Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe
• The Viewing Booth
  Ra’anan Alexandrowicz