Total Film: 50 Best Movies of 2011 [based on UK release date]
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
- Blue Valentine — Derek Cianfrance
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
- Kill List — Ben Wheatley
- Animal Kingdom — David Michôd
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Bridesmaids — Paul Feig
- We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
- The Guard — John Michael McDonagh
- Source Code — Duncan Jones
- True Grit — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Neds — Peter Mullan
- The Fighter — David O. Russell
- The King’s Speech — Tom Hooper
- The Skin I Live In — Pedro Almodóvar
- Tyrannosaur — Paddy Considine
- Super 8 — JJ Abrams
- Take Shelter — Jeff Nichols
- Senna — Asif Kapadia
- The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- Submarine — Richard Ayoade
- Snowtown — Justin Kurzel
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 — David Yates
- 127 Hours — Danny Boyle
- Melancholia — Lars von Trier
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes — Rupert Wyatt
- Attack the Block — Joe Cornish
- Moneyball — Bennett Miller
- The Adventures of Tintin — Steven Spielberg
- Thor — Kenneth Branagh
- Arrietty — Hiromasa Yonebayashi & Gary Rydstrom
- The Interrupters — Steve James
- X-Men: First Class — Matthew Vaughn
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
- Warrior — Gavin O’Connor
- How I Ended This Summer — Aleksey Popogrebskiy
- Crazy, Stupid, Love — Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
- 13 Assassins — Takashi Miike
- The Ides of March — George Clooney
- The Help — Tate Taylor
- 50/50 — Jonathan Levine
- Weekend — Andrew Haigh
- Project Nim — James Marsh
- Essential Killing — Jerzy Skolimowski
- The Lincoln Lawyer — Brad Furman
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — David Fincher