Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2011 Movies

Richard Brody: 26 Best Films of 2011

07 December 2011

Richard Brody: 26 Best Films of 2011, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, 2010s]

  1. The Future — Miranda July
  2. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
  3. Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
  4. Hugo — Martin Scorsese
  5. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
  6. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
  7. Petition — Zhao Liang
  8. Putty Hill — Matthew Porterfield
  9. Silver Bullets — Joe Swanberg
  10. A Screaming Man — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
  11. The Interrupters — Steve James
  12. You All Are Captains — Oliver Laxe
  13. Bellflower — Evan Glodell
  14. J. Edgar — Clint Eastwood
  15. Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
  16. Terri — Azazel Jacobs
  17. Impolex — Alex Ross Perry
  18. Moneyball — Bennett Miller
  19. Road to Nowhere — Monte Hellman
  20. Bridesmaids — Nicole Holofcener
  21. The Descendants — Alexander Payne
  22. Uncle Kent — Joe Swanberg
  23. The Time That Remains — Elia Suleiman
  24. Le Havre — Aki Kaurismäki
  25. The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
  26. Restless — Gus Van Sant

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