Year-End Lists

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Orpheus - Vadim Kostrov

Christopher Small: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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The Green Knight - David Lowery

Hanna Flint: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier

Josh Slater-Williams: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thomas Flew: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Benedetta - Paul Verhoeven

Ferroni Brigade: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Hit the Road - Panah Panahi

Leigh Singer: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? - Aleksandre Koberidze

Jamie Dunn: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Il Buco - Michelangelo Frammartino

Andrew Simpson: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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The Velvet Underground - Todd Haynes

Matt Zoller Seitz: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Affairs of the Art - Joanna Quinn

Alex Dudok de Wit: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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The Human Voice - Pedro Almodóvar

Mar Diestro-Dópido: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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A Cop Movie - Alonso Ruizpalacios

Maria Delgado: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

TV Shows
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

Caroline Framke: Variety Best TV Shows of 2021

Movies
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces - Zhu Shengze

Ren Scateni: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Blackwater Mouth Tollesbury Creek Jumping Ladz - Tilly Shiner

Sukhdev Sandhu: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Flee - Jonas Poher Rasmussen

Alex Davidson: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

TV Shows
The Investigation - Tobias Lindholm

Daniel D’Addario: Variety Best TV Shows of 2021

Movies
Beginning - Déa Kulumbegashvili

Caspar Salmon: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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The Souvenir Part II - Joanna Hogg

Lillian Crawford: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson

Joshua Rothkopf: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Feathers - Omar El Zohairy

Kieron Corless: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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A Night of Knowing Nothing - Payal Kapadia

Julian Ross: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Philip Concannon: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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A Cop Movie - Alonso Ruizpalacios

Jonathan Romney: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2021

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