Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: Best Films of 2011, as published by The New York Times

• Abracadabra
  Ernie Gehr
• Aurora
  Cristi Puiu
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu
  Andrei Ujica
• Bridesmaids
  Paul Feig
• Contagion
  Steven Soderbergh
• A Dangerous Method
  David Cronenberg
• J. Edgar
  Clint Eastwood
• Le Havre
  Aki Kaurismäki
• Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• Moneyball
  Bennett Miller
• My Joy
  Sergei Loznitsa
• Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raoul Ruiz
• Of Gods and Men
  Xavier Beauvois
• Poetry
  Lee Chang-dong
• Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• The Return
  Nathaniel Dorsky
• Seeking the Monkey King
  Ken Jacobs
• The Skin I Live In
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Tomas Alfredson
• Voluptuous Sleep
  Betzy Bromberg
• Warrior
  Gavin O’Connor