Year-End Lists

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2021 Movies

Hollywood Reporter: Sheri Linden: Best Films of 2021

15 December 2021

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove

Sheri Linden: Best Films of 2021, as published by The Hollywood Reporter

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019]

  1. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
    Questlove
  2. The Power of the Dog
    Jane Campion
  3. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  4. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
  5. Compartment Number 6
    Juho Kuosmanen
  6. The Lost Daughter
    Maggie Gyllenhaal
  7. West Side Story
    Steven Spielberg
  8. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony
  9. I'm Your Man
    Maria Schrader
  10. The Humans
    Stephen Karam

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