Year-End Lists

Sam Adams: Best Films of 2011, as published by The A.V. Club

Top 15

1. The Future
   Miranda July
2. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
3. Carnage
   Roman Polanski
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
   Tomas Alfredson
5. Higher Ground
   Vera Farmiga
6. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
7. Meek’s Cutoff
   Kelly Reichardt
8. The Skin I Live In
   Pedro Almodóvar
9. The Interrupters
   Steve James
10. Submarine
    Richard Ayoade
11. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
12. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
13. Rango
    Gore Verbinski
14. Super
    James Gunn
15. Rubber
    Quentin Dupieux

The next five

• War Horse
  Steven Spielberg
• Contagion
  Steven Soderbergh
• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
  Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
• Real Steel
  Shawn Levy
• Warrior
  Gavin O’Connor