Year-End Lists

Roger Ebert: Best Films of 2011, as published by The Chicago Sun-Times, among films that opened in Chicago in 2011, excluding documentaries

[see also 2012]

1. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
2. Shame
   Steve McQueen
3. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
4. Hugo
   Martin Scorsese
5. Take Shelter
   Jeff Nichols
6. Kinyarwanda
   Alrick Brown
7. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
8. Midnight in Paris
   Woody Allen
9. Le Havre
   Aki Kaurismäki
10. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
11. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
12. Terri
    Azazel Jacobs
13. The Descendants
    Alexander Payne
14. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Sean Durkin
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    David Yates
17. Trust
    David Schwimmer
18. Live, Above All
    Oliver Schmitz
19. The Mill and the Cross
    Lech Majewski
20. Another Earth
    Mike Cahill

Other Excellent Films

• 13 Assassins
  Takashi Miike
• Beginners
  Mike Mills
• Boy Wonder
  Michael Morrissey
• Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• The Future
  Miranda July
• The Guard
  John Michael McDonagh
• Higher Ground
  Vera Farmiga
• I Will Follow
  Ava DuVernay
• J. Edgar
  Clint Eastwood
• The Last Rites of Joe May
  Joe Maggio
• Le quattro volte
  Michelangelo Frammartino
• Margin Call
  J.C. Chandor
• Meek’s Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
  Brad Bird
• Moneyball
  Bennett Miller
• Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raoul Ruiz
• My Week with Marilyn
  Simon Curtis
• The Princess of Montpensier
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Rango
  Gore Verbinski
• A Screaming Man
  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• Silent Souls
  Aleksei Fedorchenko
• Tyrannosaur
  Paddy Considine
• Queen to Play
  Caroline Bottaro
• Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  Guy Ritchie
• The Whistleblower
  Larysa Kondracki