Year-End Lists

Michael Phillips: Top 10 Best Movies of 2021, as published by The Chicago Tribune

1. A Night of Knowing Nothing
   Payal Kapadia
2. The Underground Railroad
   Barry Jenkins
3. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
4. Passing
   Rebecca Hall
5. West Side Story
   Steven Spielberg
6. The Lost Daughter
   Maggie Gyllenhaal
7. Licorice Pizza
   Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
   Questlove
9. It's a Sin
10. The Green Knight
    David Lowery
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth
    Joel Coen

Runners-up, best of 2021

• Judas and the Black Messiah
  Shaka King
• tick, tick... BOOM!
  Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  Destin Daniel Cretton
• Lamb
  Valdimar Jóhannsson
• The Power of the Dog
  Jane Campion