Published Updated

Sort by

Top 50 of 2021

My top films of 2021.

UK releases only.

More detailed thoughts, and honourable mentions, can be found in this Twitter thread.

  • Drive My Car

    1

  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

    2

  • Dune

    3

  • Nomadland

    4

  • Spencer

    5

  • Natural Light

    6

  • Azor

    7

  • The Lost Daughter

    8

  • Never Gonna Snow Again

    9

  • Dear Comrades!

    10

  • Licorice Pizza

    11

  • The Green Knight

    12

  • Wife of a Spy

    13

  • Genus Pan

    14

  • Titane

    15

  • Annette

    16

  • Air Conditioner

    17

  • Martin Eden

    18

  • Petite Maman

    19

  • Minari

    20

  • Downstream to Kinshasa

    21

  • The Rescue

    22

  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    23

  • The Card Counter

    24

  • The Father

    25

  • West Side Story

    26

  • Identifying Features

    27

  • Passing

    28

  • The Halt

    29

  • Beginning

    30

  • This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

    31

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    32

  • The House of Us

    33

  • Sound of Metal

    34

  • Judas and the Black Messiah

    35

  • Ghosts

    36

  • The Tragedy of Macbeth

    37

  • Pig

    38

  • First Cow

    39

  • Atlantis

    40

  • Another Round

    41

  • Lucky Chan-sil

    42

  • The Velvet Underground

    43

  • The Sparks Brothers

    44

  • White on White

    45

  • Deerskin

    46

  • Malmkrog

    47

  • The Last Duel

    48

  • There Is No Evil

    49

  • The Summit of the Gods

    50