Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best Films of 2011 [individual ballots and near-misses]

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012]

1. Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
2. A Brighter Summer Day — Edward Yang
3. Mysteries of Lisbon — Raoul Ruiz
4. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
5. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
6. Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
8. Tuesday, After Christmas — Radu Muntean
9. Nostalgia for the Light — Patricio Guzmán
10. Poetry — Lee Chang-dong
11. Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
12. Film Socialisme — Jean-Luc Godard
13. In the Family — Patrick Wang
14. Tomboy — Céline Sciamma
15. Beginners — Mike Mills
16. El Sicario, Room 164 — Gianfranco Rosi
17. A Dangerous Method — David Cronenberg
18. Leap Year — Michael Rowe
19. Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
20. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
21. The Time That Remains — Elia Suleiman
22. Extraordinary Stories — Mariano Llinás
23. The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
24. Hugo — Martin Scorsese
25. Of Gods and Men — Xavier Beauvois

The Next 25

26. The Interrupters — Steve James
27. To Die Like a Man — João Pedro Rodrigues
28. Le Havre — Aki Kaurismäki
29. Petition — Zhao Liang
30. A Useful Life — Federico Veiroj
30. Polytechnique — Denis Villeneuve
32. Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
33. Bellflower — Evan Glodell
34. Love Exposure — Sion Sono
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — David Yates
35. Putty Hill — Matthew Porterfield
37. Road to Nowhere — Monte Hellman
38. Cave of Forgotten Dreams — Werner Herzog
38. Incendies — Denis Villeneuve
38. Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
41. The Descendants — Alexander Payne
41. The Mouth of the Wolf — Pietro Marcello
43. Foreign Parts — Verena Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki
43. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within — José Padilha
43. The Inheritors — Eugenio Polgovsky
46. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
46. Senna — Asif Kapadia
48. Carnage — Roman Polanski
49. Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
49. Heartbeats — Xavier Dolan