Year-End Lists

Film Comment: 50 Best Released Films of 2011 [poll of over 120 critics and film journalists]

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012]

1. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
4. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
5. A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
6. Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
7. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
8. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
9. Hugo — Martin Scorsese
10. Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
11. Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
12. Le Havre — Aki Kaurismäki
13. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu — Andrei Ujica
14. Le quattro volte — Michelangelo Frammartino
15. The Descendants — Alexander Payne
16. Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán
17. A Brighter Summer Day — Edward Yang
18. Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
19. Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
20. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
21. Shame — Steve McQueen
22. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
23. Cave of Forgotten Dreams — Werner Herzog
24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
25. To Die Like a Man — João Pedro Rodrigues
26. The Interrupters — Steve James
27. The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
28. Tuesday, After Christmas — Radu Muntean
29. Aurora — Cristi Puiu
30. Weekend — Andrew Haigh
31. The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
32. City of Life and Death — Lu Chuan
33. Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
34. Of Gods and Men — Xavier Beauvois
35. Martha Marcy May Marlene — Sean Durkin
36. Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
37. The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
38. Moneyball — Bennett Miller
39. The Arbor — Clio Barnard
40. The Future — Miranda July
41. Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
42. Super 8 — JJ Abrams
43. United Red Army — Kôji Wakamatsu
44. Road to Nowhere — Monte Hellman
45. Tabloid — Errol Morris
46. Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Rupert Wyatt
47. Terri — Azazel Jacobs
48. J. Edgar — Clint Eastwood
49. Jane Eyre — Cary Joji Fukunaga
50. Pina — Wim Wenders