David Denby: Best Films of 2011, as published by The New Yorker
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Margin Call — J.C. Chandor
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne
- J. Edgar — Clint Eastwood
- Source Code — Duncan Jones
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Rupert Wyatt