Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Movies
Poetry - Lee Chang-dong

10 Best Movies of 2011 Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips

Favorite Films of 2011 Dennis Cooper

Best Films of 2011 IndieWire Poll

50 Best Released Films of 2011 Film Comment Poll

Top 10 Films of 2011 Slant: Nick Schager

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

Top 10 Films of 2011 Slant: Ed Gonzalez

Melancholia - Lars von Trier

Top 10 Movies of 2011 MSN

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

50 Best Movies of 2011 Total Film

Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Noel Murray

Meek’s Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Scott Tobias

A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

Best Films of 2011 Chicago Sun-Times: Roger Ebert

Top 10 Movies of 2011 Slate: Dana Stevens

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

Best Films of 2011 Time Out New York: Keith Uhlich

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Best Films of 2011 Time Out New York: Joshua Rothkopf

Shame - Steve McQueen

Best Films of 2011 Time Out New York: David Fear

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

25 Best Films of 2011 Slant

Top 10 Movies of 2011 New York Times: Stephen Holden

Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan

Best Films of 2011 HitFix: Kristopher Tapley

Pina - Wim Wenders

Top Ten Films of 2011 IndieWire: Anne Thompson

Best Films of 2011 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Best Films of 2011 New York Times: A.O. Scott

Melancholia - Lars von Trier

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Alison Willmore

The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Tasha Robinson

The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Nathan Rabin

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Keith Phipps

The Future - Miranda July

Best Films of 2011 A.V. Club: Sam Adams

Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan

Best Five Films of 2011 Time Out London: Dave Calhoun

Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan

Best Films of 2011 Time Out Chicago: Ben Kenigsberg

Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club

Poetry - Lee Chang-dong

10 Best Movies of 2011 Salon: Andrew O’Hehir

This is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

25 Best Films of 2011 David Ehrlich

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius

Best Films of 2011 Guardian: Peter Bradshaw

The Future - Miranda July

26 Best Films of 2011 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Hugo - Martin Scorsese

Best Films of 2011 New Yorker: David Denby

We Have a Pope - Nanni Moretti

Top Ten Films of 2011 Cahiers du Cinéma

Top 10 Movies of 2011 New York: David Edelstein

Best Films of 2011 Sight & Sound Poll

The Skin I Live In - Pedro Almodóvar

Best Films of 2011 Artforum: John Waters