Joshua Rothkopf: Best Films of 2011, as published by Time Out New York
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012]
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Shame — Steve McQueen
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
- 13 Assassins — Takashi Miike
- The Trip — Michael Winterbottom
- Coriolanus — Ralph Fiennes
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
- My Perestroika — Robin Hessman
- Attack the Block — Joe Cornish
- Senna — Asif Kapadia
- Moneyball — Bennett Miller
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- Higher Ground — Vera Farmiga
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — David Yates
- Kaboom — Gregg Araki
- Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
- Young Adult — Jason Reitman
- The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius