Year-End Lists

Film Comment: 50 Best Released Films of 2011 [poll of over 120 critics and film journalists]

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Melancholia
   Lars von Trier
4. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
5. A Dangerous Method
   David Cronenberg
6. Mysteries of Lisbon
   Raoul Ruiz
7. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
8. Meek’s Cutoff
   Kelly Reichardt
9. Hugo
   Martin Scorsese
10. Poetry
    Lee Chang-dong
11. Film Socialisme
    Jean-Luc Godard
12. Le Havre
    Aki Kaurismäki
13. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu
    Andrei Ujica
14. Le quattro volte
    Michelangelo Frammartino
15. The Descendants
    Alexander Payne
16. Nostalgia for the Light
    Patricio Guzmán
17. A Brighter Summer Day
    Edward Yang
18. Midnight in Paris
    Woody Allen
19. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
20. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
21. Shame
    Steve McQueen
22. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
23. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    Werner Herzog
24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson
25. To Die Like a Man
    João Pedro Rodrigues
26. The Interrupters
    Steve James
27. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
28. Tuesday, After Christmas
    Radu Muntean
29. Aurora
    Cristi Puiu
30. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
31. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
32. City of Life and Death
    Lu Chuan
33. Contagion
    Steven Soderbergh
34. Of Gods and Men
    Xavier Beauvois
35. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Sean Durkin
36. Bridesmaids
    Paul Feig
37. The Trip
    Michael Winterbottom
38. Moneyball
    Bennett Miller
39. The Arbor
    Clio Barnard
40. The Future
    Miranda July
41. Incendies
    Denis Villeneuve
42. Super 8
    JJ Abrams
43. United Red Army
    Kôji Wakamatsu
44. Road to Nowhere
    Monte Hellman
45. Tabloid
    Errol Morris
46. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Rupert Wyatt
47. Terri
    Azazel Jacobs
48. J. Edgar
    Clint Eastwood
49. Jane Eyre
    Cary Fukunaga
50. Pina
    Wim Wenders