Year-End Lists

Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2021, as published by The New Yorker

1. The French Dispatch
   Wes Anderson
2. Licorice Pizza
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Zola
   Janicza Bravo
4. I Was a Simple Man
   Christopher Makoto Yogi
5. In the Same Breath
   Nanfu Wang
6. C'mon C'mon
   Mike Mills
7. Passing
   Rebecca Hall
8. Koozhangal
   P.S. Vinothraj
9. Petite Maman
   Céline Sciamma
10. Procession
    Robert Greene
11. The Woman Who Ran
    Hong Sang-soo
12. The Disciple
    Chaitanya Tamhane
13. Being the Ricardos
    Aaron Sorkin
14. Parallel Mothers
    Pedro Almodóvar
15. The American Sector
    Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez
16. All Light, Everywhere
    Theo Anthony
17. A Cop Movie
    Alonso Ruizpalacios
18. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
    Jia Zhang-ke
19. Listening to Kenny G
    Penny Lane
20. Drive My Car
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
21. The Card Counter
    Paul Schrader
22. Uppercase Print
    Radu Jude
23. Little Girl
    Sébastien Lifshitz
24. Cry Macho
    Clint Eastwood
25. Exterminate All the Brutes
    Raoul Peck
26. Paris Calligrammes
    Ulrike Ottinger
27. The Year of the Everlasting Storm
    various artists
28. You Will Die at Twenty
    Amjad Abu Alala
29. France
    Bruno Dumont
30. Titane
    Julia Ducournau
31. Test Pattern
    Shatara Michelle Ford
32. No Ordinary Man
    Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt
33. Isabella
    Matías Piñeiro
34. There Is No Evil
    Mohammad Rasoulof
35. Wojnarowicz
    Chris McKim