Year-End Lists

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2011 Movies

Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2011

01 December 2011

Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2011 (a poll of 100 critics and curators, published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

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  1. The Tree of Life
    Terrence Malick
  2. A Separation
    Asghar Farhadi
  3. The Kid with a Bike
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  4. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
  5. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
  6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  7. The Turin Horse
    Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
  8. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
  9. Le quattro volte
    Michelangelo Frammartino
  10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson
  11. This is Not a Film
    Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

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