Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2011 [individual ballots and near-misses]
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- A Brighter Summer Day — Edward Yang
- Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Tuesday, After Christmas — Radu Muntean
- Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán
- Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
- Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
- Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
- In the Family — Patrick Wang
- Tomboy — Céline Sciamma
- Beginners — Mike Mills
- El Sicario, Room 164 — Gianfranco Rosi
- A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
- Leap Year — Michael Rowe
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
- The Time That Remains — Elia Suleiman
- Extraordinary Stories — Mariano Llinás
- The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- Of Gods and Men — Xavier Beauvois
- The Interrupters — Steve James
- To Die Like a Man — João Pedro Rodrigues
- Le Havre — Aki Kaurismäki
- Petition — Zhao Liang
- A Useful Life — Federico Veiroj
- Polytechnique — Denis Villeneuve
- Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
- Bellflower — Evan Glodell
- Love Exposure — Sion Sono
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — David Yates
- Putty Hill — Matthew Porterfield
- Road to Nowhere — Monte Hellman
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams — Werner Herzog
- Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne
- The Mouth of the Wolf — Pietro Marcello
- Foreign Parts — Verena Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki
- Elite Squad: The Enemy Within — José Padilha
- The Inheritors — Eugenio Polgovsky
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Senna — Asif Kapadia
- Carnage — Roman Polanski
- Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
- Heartbeats — Xavier Dolan