Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2011 Movies

Les Inrocks: 20 Best Films of 2011

02 January 2012

Les Inrockuptibles: 20 Best Films of 2011

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

  1. House of Pleasures
    Bertrand Bonello
  2. The Strange Case of Angelica
    Manoel de Oliveira
  3. How Do You Know [Comment savoir]
    James Brooks
  4. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
  5. Declaration of War [La guerre es déclarée]
    Valérie Donzelli
  6. Last Screening [Dernière séance]
    Laurent Achard
  7. Pater
    Alain Cavalier
  8. Super 8
    JJ Abrams
  9. Essential Killing
    Jerzy Skolimowski
  10. Midnight in Paris
    Woody Allen
  11. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
  12. Attenberg
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
  13. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
  14. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  15. Hahaha
    Hong Sang-soo
  16. Beloved
    Christophe Honoré
  17. Black Swan
    Darren Aronofsky
  18. Sweetgrass
    Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Ilisa Barbash
  19. Le Havre
    Aki Kaurismäki
  20. We Have a Pope
    Nanni Moretti
  21. Outside Satan
    Bruno Dumont

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