Matt Prigge: Top Ten Films of 2011, as published by Philadelphia Weekly [more commentary]
- House of Pleasures (aka House of Tolerance) — Bertrand Bonello
- Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Drive — Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
- Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
- Rubber — Quentin Dupieux
- Martha Marcy May Marlene — Sean Durkin
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Tuesday, After Christmas — Radu Muntean
- Meek’s Cutoff — Kelly Reichardt
- Putty Hill — Matthew Porterfield
- The Arbor — Clio Barnard
- Hugo — Martin Scorsese
- Contagion — Steven Soderbergh
- The Future — Miranda July
- Cold Weather — Aaron Katz
- Bellflower — Evan Glodell
- Shit Year — Cam Archer
- Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol — Brad Bird