Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Best Films of 2011 [as voted by 162 “critics, bloggers and other tastemakers from around the world”] [See IndieWire for full, browsable results and ballots.]

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1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. Melancholia
   Lars von Trier
3. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
4. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
   Raoul Ruiz
8. Hugo
   Martin Scorsese
9. Margaret
   Kenneth Lonergan
10. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
11. Shame
    Steve McQueen
12. The Descendants
    Alexander Payne
13. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
14. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Sean Durkin
16. A Dangerous Method
    David Cronenberg
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson
18. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
19. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
20. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
21. Poetry
    Lee Chang-dong
22. Nostalgia for the Light
    Patricio Guzmán
23. The Interrupters
    Steve James
23. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
25. Midnight in Paris
    Woody Allen