Year-End Lists

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

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