Best Films 2021

Lover's Rock

Steve McQueen

About Endlessness  

Roy Andersson

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

Questlove

The Tsugua Diaries

Maureen Fezendeiro/Miguel Gomes

Annette

Leos Carax

Titane

Julia Ducournau

Zola

Janicza Bravo

In Front of Your Face

Hong Sang-soo

No Time to Die

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Drive My Car

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Ema

Pablo Larraín

Spencer

Pablo Larraín

Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach

Censor

Prana Bailey-Bond

Saint Maud

Rose Glass

Mandibles

Quentin Dupieux

The Story of Film: A New Generation

Mark Cousins

Willy's Wonderland

Kevin Lewis

Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson

Benedetta

Paul Verhoeven

The Best of the Rest

France (Bruno Dumont)

The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)

Malignant (James Wan)

Days (Tsai Ming-liang)

Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)

Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)

One Night in Miami (Regina King)

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (Inés Toharia Terán)

Relic (Natalie Erika James)

Dune (Denis Villeneuve)

Possesor (Brandon Cronenberg)

In the Earth (Ben Wheatly)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)

The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)

Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro)

Nine Days (Edson Oda)

Passing (Rebecca Hall)

The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)

She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz)

Climate of the Hunter (Mickey Reece)

The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)

The Sparks Brothers (Edgar Wright)

Not For Me

Pig (Sarnoski), The Woman in the Window (Wright), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Serkis), Reminiscence (Joy), Synchronic (Benson/Moorhead), The Eternals (Zhao), Gunpowder Milkshake (Papushado), Cry Macho (Eastwood), Spider-Man: No Way Home (Watts), Don't Look Up (McKay)

Anticipating

No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh) - Red Rocket (Sean Baker) - Cow (Andrea Arnold) - Flux Gournet (Peter Strickland) - Coma (Bertrand Bonello) - Faya Dayi (Jessica Bahsir) - Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (Radu Jude) - The Woman Who Ran/Introduction (Hong Sang-soo) - Vortex (Gaspar Noe) - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen) - Saint Narcisse (Bruce LaBruce) - One Second (Zhang Yimou) - Holler (Nicole Riegel) - The Humans (Steven Karam) - The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg) - Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson) - Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) - El Planeta (Amalia Ulman) - Labyrinth of Cinema (Nobuhiko Obayashi) ...and all the films from last year that I haven't caught up with yet!