Year-End Lists

Total Film: 50 Best Movies of 2011 [based on UK release date]

1. Drive
   Nicolas Winding Refn
2. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
3. Black Swan
   Darren Aronofsky
4. Blue Valentine
   Derek Cianfrance
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
   Tomas Alfredson
6. Kill List
   Ben Wheatley
7. Animal Kingdom
   David Michôd
8. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
9. Bridesmaids
   Paul Feig
10. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Lynne Ramsay
11. The Guard
    John Michael McDonagh
12. Source Code
    Duncan Jones
13. True Grit
    Joel & Ethan Coen
14. Neds
    Peter Mullan
15. The Fighter
    David O. Russell
16. The King’s Speech
    Tom Hooper
17. The Skin I Live In
    Pedro Almodóvar
18. Tyrannosaur
    Paddy Considine
19. Super 8
    JJ Abrams
20. Take Shelter
    Jeff Nichols
21. Senna
    Asif Kapadia
22. The Artist
    Michel Hazanavicius
23. Hugo
    Martin Scorsese
24. Submarine
    Richard Ayoade
25. Snowtown
    Justin Kurzel
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    David Yates
27. 127 Hours
    Danny Boyle
28. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier
29. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Rupert Wyatt
30. Attack the Block
    Joe Cornish
31. Moneyball
    Bennett Miller
32. The Adventures of Tintin
    Steven Spielberg
33. Thor
    Kenneth Branagh
34. Arrietty
    Hiromasa Yonebayashi & Gary Rydstrom
35. The Interrupters
    Steve James
36. X-Men: First Class
    Matthew Vaughn
37. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
38. Contagion
    Steven Soderbergh
39. Warrior
    Gavin O’Connor
40. How I Ended This Summer
    Aleksey Popogrebskiy
41. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
42. 13 Assassins
    Takashi Miike
43. The Ides of March
    George Clooney
44. The Help
    Tate Taylor
45. 50/50
    Jonathan Levine
46. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
47. Project Nim
    James Marsh
48. Essential Killing
    Jerzy Skolimowski
49. The Lincoln Lawyer
    Brad Furman
50. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    David Fincher