2021 Top Ten List

  • Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  • Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
  • In Front of Your Face (Hong Sangsoo)
  • Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
  • Annette (Leos Carax)
  • Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych)
  • Benediction (Terence Davies)
  • The Apartment With Two Women (Kim Se-in)
  • Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
  • Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)

    • Additional 2021 Films By Rating

  • Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
  • The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
  • Paris, 13th District (Jacques Audiard)
  • A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
  • No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Passing (Rebecca Hall)
  • Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
  • Queen of Glory (Nana Mensah)
  • Onoda (Arthur Harari)
  • Happening (Audrey Diwan)
  • West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
  • I'm Your Man (Maria Schrader)
  • Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
  • Full Time (Éric Gravel)
  • Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
  • The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher)
  • King Richard (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
  • Operation Varsity Blues (Chris Smith)
  • Rehana (Abdullah Mohammad Saad)
  • Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
  • Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
  • Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)
  • Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
  • A Tale of Love and Desire (Leyla Bouzid)
  • Anaïs in Love (Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)
  • Cyrano (Joe Wright)
  • The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
  • Stowaway (Joe Penna)
  • Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  • Teenage Emotions (Frederic Da)
  • France (Bruno Dumont)
  • Millie Lies Low (Michelle Savill)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
  • The Year of the Everlasting Storm (various)
  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
  • Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  • The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson)
  • The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
  • C'mon C'mon (Mike Mills)
  • Mayor Pete (Jesse Moss)
  • Ali & Ava (Clio Barnard)
  • Hold Me Tight (Mathieu Amalric)
  • The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (Avi Mograbi)
  • The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
  • Montana Story (Scott McGehee & David Siegel)
  • The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
  • The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  • Black Box (Yann Gozlan)
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Cretton)
  • Oxygen (Alexandre Aja)
  • Listening to Kenny G (Penny Lane)
  • Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • Saloum (Jean Luc Herbulot)
  • Malignant (James Wan)
  • The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  • Everything Went Fine (François Ozon)
  • A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)
  • Neptune Frost (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
  • Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • The Other Tom. (Rodrigo Plá & Laura Santullo)
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts)
  • Operation Mincemeat (John Madden)
  • The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (Will Sharpe)
  • What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  • The Green Knight (David Lowery)
  • Petrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov)
  • Prisoners of the Ghostland (Sion Sono)
  • After Yang (Kogonada)
  • Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Cow (Andrea Arnold)
  • Futura (Pietro Marcello & Francesco Munzi & Alice Rohrwacher)
  • Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum)
  • The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes)
  • Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
  • Ultrasound (Rob Schroeder)
  • The Forgiven (John Michael McDonagh)
  • Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
  • Lingui: the Sacred Bonds (Mahamet-Saleh Haround)
  • Huda's Salon (Hany Abu-Assad)
  • The Ice Road (Jonathan Hensleigh)
  • We're All Going to the World's Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
  • Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  • The Mad Women's Ball (Mélanie Laurent)
  • Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  • The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi)
  • Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
  • Arthur Rambo (Laurent Cantet)
  • The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
  • No Man of God (Amber Sealey)
  • Azor (Andreas Fontana)
  • Finch (Miguel Sapochnik)
  • Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
  • Procession (Robert Greene)
  • Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)
  • Three Floors (Nanni Moretti)
  • Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  • Flag Day (Sean Penn)
  • 12 Mighty Orphans (Ty Roberts)
  • She Will (Charlotte Colbert)
  • Nitram (Justin Kurzel)
  • La Fracture (Catherine Corsini)
  • The Power (Corinna Faith)
  • There's Someone Inside Your House (Patrick Brice)
  • Earwig (Lucile Hadžihalilović)
  • Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
  • Emergency Declaration (Han Jae-rim)
  • Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
  • The Black Phone (Scott Derrickson)
  • Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko)
  • No Time to Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  • The Restless (Joachim Lafosse)
  • Introduction (Hong Sangsoo)
  • Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
  • Outside the Wire (Mikael Håfström)
  • The Alpinist (Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen)
  • Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
  • Awake (Mark Raso)
  • Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (Patrick Hughes)
  • The Unforgivable (Nora Fingscheidt)
  • Inexorable (Fabrice du Welz)
  • Here Today (Billy Crystal)