David Fear: Best Films of 2011, as published by Time Out New York
- Shame — Steve McQueen
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Tuesday, After Christmas — Radu Muntean
- Moneyball — Bennett Miller
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cold Weather — Aaron Katz
- Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
- Senna — Asif Kapadia
- The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
- My Joy — Sergei Loznitsa
- The Arbor — Clio Barnard
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 — Göran Olsson
- Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
- The Interrupters — Steve James
- 13 Assassins — Takashi Miike
- The Future — Miranda July
- Le Havre — Aki Kaurismäki
- Rampart — Oren Moverman
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn