David Ehrlich of Movies.com’s Criterion Corner: 25 Best Films of 2011
NOTE: In Boxoffice Magazine, Ehrlich lists Certified Copy (Kiarostami) as tied for first, noted that the Panahi film does not come out in the US until February 2012 (he says it’s available for streaming at Netflix, but as of December 12, 2011, that is not the case), and omits the Loktov and Naranjo films.
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Kill List — Ben Wheatley
- The Arbor — Clio Barnard
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- The Loneliest Planet — Julia Loktev
- Miss Bala — Gerardo Naranjo
- The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — David Fincher
- The Adventures of Tintin — Steven Spielberg
- The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- The Interrupters — Steve James
- Footnote — Joseph Cedar
- How to Die in Oregon — Peter Richardson
- Shame — Steve McQueen
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
- Pina — Wim Wenders
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Time That Remains — Elia Suleiman
- [missing]
- The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
- Buddha Mountain — Li Yu
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne