Items24The creator’s order
  1. 1Drive My Car (2021)Drive My Car (2021) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Aug 2021Ryusuke Hamaguchi joins a multilingual production of Uncle Vanya to a director's long, uneasy reckoning with his dead wife. The journeys with his driver create a different space for speech and silence. Its leading place reflects a remarkably patient alignment of performance, grief and the work of…0
  2. 2The Power of the Dog (2021)The Power of the Dog (2021) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Oct 2021Jane Campion builds a western around Phil Burbank's performance of masculine authority and the vulnerabilities it conceals. Benedict Cumberbatch makes intimidation feel practised, while the household quietly changes around him. The precision of the withheld narrative gives every gesture a second…0
  3. 3The Worst Person in the World (2021)The Worst Person in the World (2021) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Oct 2021Joachim Trier follows Julie through work, love and attempts to become a coherent version of herself. Renate Reinsve gives uncertainty energy without making every decision admirable. The film's shifts in form and emotional register make the familiar problem of approaching adulthood unusually vivid.0
  4. 4Petite Maman (2021)Petite Maman (2021) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 2 Jun 2021Céline Sciamma turns a girl's encounter in the woods into a simple, extraordinary way of meeting her mother's childhood. The fantasy needs very little explanation because the play and shared tasks feel concrete. Its place recognises how much emotional possibility a short, modestly scaled feature…0
  5. 5Flee (2021)Flee (2021) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Jun 2021Jonas Poher Rasmussen uses animation to protect a refugee's identity while allowing memory to take different visual forms. Amin's account connects displacement to the difficulty of living openly in the present. The documentary earns its position through a method inseparable from the person telling…0
  6. 6Memoria (2021)Memoria (2021) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Sept 2021Apichatpong Weerasethakul follows a woman disturbed by a sound she cannot locate, letting listening alter her relation to Colombia's places and histories. Tilda Swinton makes curiosity a quiet physical state. Its treatment of duration and sonic memory gives the year an exceptional sensory…0
  7. 7The Souvenir: Part II (2021)The Souvenir: Part II (2021) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Oct 2021Joanna Hogg follows Julie making a graduation film from an experience she cannot yet fully understand. The act of directing becomes a struggle over memory and self-presentation. Its place rests on showing artistic development as practical, collaborative and painfully incomplete.0
  8. 8Licorice Pizza (2021)Licorice Pizza (2021) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Nov 2021Paul Thomas Anderson follows Gary and Alana through schemes and uncertain attachments in 1970s California. The unstable age and power differences remain part of the discomfort. Its episodic momentum earns inclusion by making a particular social world feel expansive without forcing it into a neat…0
  9. 9Titane (2021)Titane (2021) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Jul 2021Julia Ducournau turns bodily transformation and a false reunion into an extreme inquiry into identity and care. Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon make the unlikely emotional bond matter amid the provocation. Its place recognises a singular genre film prepared to make tenderness strange.0
  10. 10The Green Knight (2021)The Green Knight (2021) 6.5/10 on IMDbReleased 29 Jul 2021David Lowery follows Gawain towards a promised encounter that tests the story he wants to tell about himself. Dev Patel gives hesitation the weight usually reserved for heroic action. The fantasy earns its place through design and imagery that keep honour, fear and mortality unresolved.0