Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2021 Movies

Good Morning America: Peter Travers: 10 Best Movies of 2021

15 December 2021

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Peter Travers: 10 Best Movies of 2021, as published by ABC News’s Good Morning America

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

  1. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  2. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg
  3. Belfast
    Kenneth Branagh
  4. Licorice Pizza
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  5. CODA
    Sian Heder
  6. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    Joel Coen
  7. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
  8. Dune
    Denis Villeneuve
  9. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove
  10. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  11. The Worst Person in the World
    Joachim Trier

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