My Favorite Films of 2021

"I always worried something would go wrong, but the things that went wrong were never what I worried about."

Directed by Joachim Trier
Written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Music by Ola Fløttum
Cinematography by Kasper Tuxen
Editing by Olivier Bugge Coutté

"Hold on. Fight them. Be beautiful. You are your own weapon. Don't cut it to pieces."

Directed by Pablo Larraín
Written by Steven Knight
Music by Jonny Greenwood
Cinematography by Claire Mathon
Editing by Sebastián Sepúlveda

"Mom? What do you do when someones mean?"

Directed by Eskil Vogt
Written by Eskil Vogt
Music by Pessi Levanto
Cinematography by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editing by Jens Christian Fodstad

"The truth does not matter."

Directed by Ridley Scott
Written by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography by Dariusz Wolski
Editing by Claire Simpson

"We don't get a lot of things to really care about."

Directed by Michael Sarnoski
Written by Michael Sarnoski and Vanessa Block
Music by Alexis Grapsas and Philip Klein
Cinematography by Patrick Scola
Editing by Brett W. Bachman

"Maybe with good luck we'll find what eluded us in the places we once called home."

Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman
Editing by Andrew Weisblum

"I think I've had sex with him. Remember the guy i fucked because he smelled nice?"

Directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke
Written by Yngvild Sve Flikke, Johan Fasting and Inga Sætre
Music by Kåre Vestrheim
Cinematography by Marianne Bakke
Editing by Karen Gravås

"I kind of write donut jokes on the side. It's one of my many talents."

Directed by Sean Baker
Written by Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch
Music by
Cinematography by Drew Daniels
Editing by Sean Baker

"Oh, you guys are at the Holocaust museum. You look so... happy!"

Directed by Emma Seligman
Written by Emma Seligman
Music by Ariel Marx
Cinematography by Maria Rusche
Editing by Hanna Park

"I don't care who you are. You're my son. You'll always be my son. Whoever you are. Is that clear?"

Directed by Julia Ducournau
Written by Julia Ducournau
Music by Jim Williams
Cinematography by Ruben Impens
Editing by Jean-Christophe Bouzy

"It can be hard to tell who and what a man is, he's got a mind to convince you otherwise."

Directed by Potsy Ponciroli
Written by Potsy Ponciroli
Music by Jordan Lehning
Cinematography by John Matysiak
Editing by Jamie Kirkpatrick

"Fuck off, teenagers!"

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Music by Jonny Greenwood
Cinematography by Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Bauman
Editing by Andy Jurgensen

"You are right. There is nothing. Nothing is after you. You're safe now."

Directed by David Bruckner
Written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski
Music by Ben Lovett
Cinematography by Elisha Christian
Editing by David Marks

"I was happy in space, looking at the stars..."

Directed by James Gunn
Written by James Gunn
Music by John Murphy
Cinematography by Henry Braham
Editing by Fred Raskin and Christian Wagner

"It's not a child. It's an animal."

Directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson
Written by Valdimar Jóhannsson and Sjón
Music by Þórarinn Guðnason
Cinematography by Eli Arenson
Editing by Agnieszka Glinska

"We are going to go into the next room, you and I... And we are going to have a dramatic reenactment."

Directed by Paul Schrader
Written by Paul Schrader
Music by Robert Levon Been and Giancarlo Vulcano
Cinematography by Alexander Dynan
Editing by Benjamin Rodriguez Jr.

"This is London. Someone has died in every room in every building and on every street corner in the city."

Directed by Edgar Wright
Written by Edgar Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Music by Steven Price
Cinematography by Chung-hoon Chung
Editing by Paul Machliss

"America's on fire right now and until the fire is extinguished don't nothin' else mean a goddamn thing."

Directed by Shaka King
Written by Shaka King, Will Berson, Kenneth Lucas and Keith Lucas
Music by Craig Harris and Mark Isham
Cinematography by Sean Bobbitt
Editing by Kristan Sprague

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration."

Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Written by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Greig Fraser
Editing by Joe Walker

"You see, Ron, the problem is you're not smart enough to know how not smart you are."

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Written by Ed Solomon
Music by David Holmes
Cinematography by Steven Soderbergh
Editing by Steven Soderbergh

"Some people, they'll never accept him. But some will. And he seems to know how to find the good ones."

Directed by Enrico Casarosa
Written by Enrico Casarosa, Jesse Andrews and Simon Stephenson
Music by Dan Romer
Cinematography by David Juan Bianchi and Kim White
Editing by Catherine Apple and Jason Hudak

"Broken people save broken people."

Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Written by Nic Pizzolatto
Music by Marcelo Zarvos
Cinematography by Maz Makhani
Editing by Jason Ballantine

"Is he your imaginary friend?"
"He's the devil!"

Directed by James Wan
Written by James Wan, Ingrid Bisu and Akela Cooper
Music by Joseph Bishara
Cinematography by Michael Burgess
Editing by Kirk M. Morri

"Strange things happen to men when they smell that much cash."

Directed by Guy Ritchie
Written by Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies
Music by Christopher Benstead
Cinematography by Alan Stewart
Editing by James Herbert

"I didn't need to kill you. I'd already broken you. I wanted to give you an empty world like the one you gave me. It's enough to almost make me regret it. Almost."

Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga
Written by Cary Joji Fukunaga, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography by Linus Sandgren
Editing by Tom Cross and Elliot Graham