Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 50 Best Films of 2021

1. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
2. The Power of the Dog
   Jane Campion
3. All Light, Everywhere
   Theo Anthony
4. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
6. Licorice Pizza
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. The Worst Person in the World
   Joachim Trier
8. Just Don't Think I'll Scream
   Frank Beauvais
9. Red Rocket
   Sean Baker
10. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
11. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
    Aleksandre Koberidze
12. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
    Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
13. Bergman Island
    Mia Hansen-Løve
14. Days
    Tsai Ming-liang
15. Petite Maman
    Céline Sciamma
16. The Velvet Underground
    Todd Haynes
17. The French Dispatch
    Wes Anderson
18. Identifying Features
    Fernanda Valadez
19. Procession
    Robert Greene
20. The Souvenir Part II
    Joanna Hogg
21. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
22. Zola
    Janicza Bravo
23. There Is No Evil
    Mohammad Rasoulof
24. This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
    Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese
25. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
26. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
27. Benedetta
    Paul Verhoeven
28. El Planeta
    Amalia Ulman
29. Two Lottery Tickets
    Paul Negoescu
30. Shiva Baby
    Emma Seligman
31. In the Same Breath
    Nanfu Wang
32. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
33. State Funeral
    Sergei Loznitsa
34. Faya Dayi
    Jessica Beshir
35. Undine
    Christian Petzold
36. I'm Your Man
    Maria Schrader
37. The Two Sights
    Joshua Bonnetta
38. Passing
    Rebecca Hall
39. About Endlessness
    Roy Andersson
40. Labyrinth of Cinema
    Nobuhiko Obayashi
41. Flee
    Jonas Poher Rasmussen
42. Azor
    Andreas Fontana
43. Dune
    Denis Villeneuve
44. A Shape of Things to Come
    Lisa Marie Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki
45. Ema
    Pablo Larraín
46. Lost Course
    Jill Li
47. Limbo
    Ben Sharrock
48. Pig
    Michael Sarnoski
49. Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
    Lili Horvát
50. Come True
    Anthony Scott Burns