Year-End Lists

Simon Abrams: Top Ten Films of 2021, as published by RogerEbert.com

1. Just Don't Think I'll Scream
   Frank Beauvais
2. State Funeral
   Sergei Loznitsa
3. Wojnarowicz
   Chris McKim
4. The Disciple
   Chaitanya Tamhane
5. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
   Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
6. Days
   Tsai Ming-liang
7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
8. The French Dispatch
   Wes Anderson
9. Film About a Father Who
   Lynne Sachs
10. A Shape of Things to Come
    Lisa Marie Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki

Some honorable mentions

• Ailey
  Jamila Wignot
• Azor
  Andreas Fontana
• Devil Between the Legs
  Arturo Ripstein
• This Is My Desire
  Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri
• The Fever
  Maya Da-Rin
• The Hand of God
  Paolo Sorrentino
• In Balanchine's Classroom
  Connie Hochman
• Karen Dalton: In My Own Time
  Richard Peete & Robert Yapkowitz
• Labyrinth of Cinema
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• Some Kind of Heaven
  Lance Oppenheim