Лучшие ленты по версии Amy Taubin (Artforum):
Top-10:
1. Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn
2. Memoria
3. Exterminate All the Brutes
4. On the Royal Road: The Burgher King
5. Undine
6. Paris Calligrammes
7. "Lower East Side Trilogy"
8. Paths of Fire II
9. The Velvet Underground
10. Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Лучшие ленты по версии Amy Taubin (Artforum):
Top-10:
1. The Power of the Dog
2. Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1
3. The Velvet Underground / Summer of Soul
4. Memoria
5. Petite Maman
6. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
7. Azor
8. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet / Souad
9. Cryptozoo / The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
10. The Bureau
Лучшие ленты года по версии John Waters (Artforum):
Top-10:
1. Annette
2. Summer of Soul
3. Vortex
4. France
5. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
6. Mandibles
7. Red Rocket
8. The Tragedy of Macbeth
9. Saint-Narcisse
10. The Onania Club
Лучшие ленты 2021 по версии опроса критиков от World of Reel.com:
1) The Power of the Dog (32 votes)
2) Titane (25)
3) CODA (20)
4) The Green Knight (18)
5) Dune (17)
6) Quo Vadis Aida? (17)
7) In the Heights (16)
8) The Father (14)
9) Judas and the Black Messiah (13)
10) Mass (12)
11) Summer of Soul (10)
12) Pig (9)
13) Bergman Island (8)
14) Passing (7)
15) Red Rocket (7)
Лучшие ленты 2021 по версии Jordan Cronk (Sight&Sound):
Top-10:
• Annette (Leos Carax)
• Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
• Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
• The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
• Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
• Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
• France (Bruno Dumont)
• In Front of Your Face (Hong Sangsoo)
• Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)