There are lists and there are lists. Last year, I posted a lot of year-end lists of Best Movies of the Year, Decade and so on. And this year, wow, how fast it went... 2011 just zoomed past me, I’m yet to recover... So, no lists from my side. Here are some borrowed ones, from critics I admire and look up to.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A. O. SCOTT’S BEST OF 2011
In alphabetical order:
“Bridesmaids” (Paul Feig); “A Brighter Summer Day” (Edward Yang); “Cedar Rapids” (Miguel Arteta); “A Dangerous Method” (David Cronenberg); “The Descendants” (Alexander Payne); “The Future” (Miranda July); “The Help” (Tate Taylor); “Incendies” (Denis Villeneuve); “Into the Abyss” (Werner Herzog); “Margin Call” (J. C. Chandor); “Meek’s Cutoff” (Kelly Reichardt); “Mysteries of Lisbon” (Raúl Ruiz); “Le Quattro Volte” (Michelangelo Frammartino); “The Tree of Life” (Terrence Malick); “Tuesday, After Christmas” (Radu Muntean); “War Horse” (Steven Spielberg); “Warrior” (Gavin O’Connor); “Weekend” (Andrew Haigh); “Winnie the Pooh” (Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall); “Young Adult” (Jason Reitman).
THE NEW YORK TIMES
MANOHLA DARGIS’S BEST OF 2011
In alphabetical order:
“Abracadabra” (Ernie Gehr); “Aurora” (Cristi Puiu); “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” (Andrei Ujica); “Bridesmaids” (Paul Feig); “Contagion” (Steven Soderbergh); “A Dangerous Method” (David Cronenberg); “J. Edgar” (Clint Eastwood); “Le Havre” (Aki Kaurismaki); “Hugo” (Martin Scorsese); “Melancholia” (Lars von Trier); “Moneyball” (Bennett Miller); “My Joy” (Sergei Loznitsa); “Mysteries of Lisbon” (Raúl Ruiz); “Of Gods and Men” (Xavier Beauvois); “Poetry” (Lee Chang-dong); “Le Quattro Volte” (Michelangelo Frammartino); “The Return” (Nathaniel Dorsky); “Seeking the Monkey King” (Ken Jacobs); “The Skin I Live In” (Pedro Almodóvar); “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (Tomas Alfredson); “Voluptuous Sleep” (Betzy Bromberg); “Warrior” (Gavin O’Connor).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/movies/awardsseason/film-favorites-of-a-o-scott-and-manohla-dargis-in-2011.html
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THE CHICAGO SUN TIMES
ROGER EBERT’S TOP 20
1. "A Separation"
2. "Shame"
3. "The Tree of Life"
4. "Hugo"
5. "Take Shelter"
6. "Kinyarwanda"
7. "Drive"
8. "Midnight in Paris"
9. "Le Havre"
10. "The Artist."
11. Melancholia
12. "Terri"
13. "The Descendants"
14. "Margaret"
15. "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
16. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
17. Trust
18. "Life, Above All"
19. "The Mill and the Cross"
20. "Another Earth"
ALSO RUNS
"13 Assassins," "Beginners," "Boy Wonder," "Certified Copy," "The Future," "The Guard," "Higher Ground," "I Will Follow," "J Edgar," "The Last Rites of Joe May," ":Le Quattro Volte," "Margin Call" "Meek's Cutoff," "Moneyball," "Mysteries of Lisbon," "My Week with Marilyn," "The Princess of Montpensier," "Rango," "A Screaming Man," "Silent Souls," "Tyrannosaur," "Queen to Play," "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," and "The Whistleblower."
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/12/the_best_films_of_2011.html
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SALON.COM
ANDREW O’HEHIR’S TOP 10
1. Poetry
2. Melancholia
3. Take Shelter
4. Coriolanus
5. Mysteries of Lisbon
6. A Separation
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
9. Meek’s Cutoff
10. Putty Hill
Honorable mention: Mike Mills explores his relationship with his late gay dad (marvelously played by Christopher Plummer) in the affectionate and almost miraculous “Beginners”; Christian monks face death in Algeria in Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods and Men”; a French neighborhood rallies around an immigrant kid in Aki Kaurismäki’s whimsical “Le Havre”; Tilda Swinton plays a mom in hell in Lynne Ramsay’s hypnotic “We Need to Talk About Kevin”; Gary Oldman hunts a Cold War mole in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”; Michael Fassbender hunts sex 24/7 in Steve McQueen’s “Shame”; an afternoon in Tuscany pushes two strangers together in Abbas Kiarostami’s “Certified Copy”; a woman comes between Freud and Jung in David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”; Martin Scorsese redeems the 3-D era in the gorgeous fantasy-folly “Hugo”; two gay men struggle with love in Andrew Haigh’s touching and irresistible “Weekend.”
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/12/the_10_best_movies_of_2011_brilliant_movies_for_a_bleak_year/singleton/
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TOH! TOP TEN OF 2011 BY ANNE THOMPSON
1. "Pina" - Wim Wenders
2. "Weekend" - Andrew Haigh
3. "Melancholia" - Lars von Trier
4. "The Descendants" - Alexander Payne
5. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" - Rupert Wyatt
6. "I Saw the Devil" - Kim Jee-Woon
7. "A Dangerous Method" - David Cronenberg
8. "Jane Eyre" - Cary Fukunaga
9. "Win Win" - Tom McCarthy
10. "Take Shelter" - Jeff Nichols
More must-sees just off the bottom of that list: "Moneyball," "The Artist," "Coriolanus," "Contagion,""Drive," "Hugo," "Meek's Cutoff," "Rampart," "Warrior," "Margin Call," "Beginners," "We Need to Talk About Kevin,""The Guard," 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "Attack the Block," "The Tree of Life," "J. Edgar," "Tyrannosaur," "The Future," and "The Myth of the American Sleepover."
BEST FOREIGN FILMS
1. "I Saw the Devil" - Kim Jee Woon
2. "A Separation" - Asghar Farhadi
3. "Kid with a Bike" - The Dardennes
4. "Le Havre" - Aki Kaurismaki
5. "Declaration of War" - Valerie Donzelli
BEST DOCUMENTARIES
1. "Pina" - Wim Wenders
2. "Nostalgia for the Light" - Patricio Guzman
3. "Senna" - Asif Kapadia
4. "The Interrupters" - Steve James
5. "Tabloid" - Errol Morris
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/toh-top-tens-of-2011
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SLANT MAGAZINE
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2011 BY SLANT STAFF
25. Of Gods and Men
24. Hugo
23. The Skin I Live In
22. Extraordinary Stories
21. The Time that Remains.
20. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
19. Meek's Cutoff.
18. Leap Year.
17. A Dangerous Method
16. El Sicario, Room 164
15. Beginners.
14. Tomboy
13. In the Family
12. Film Socialisme
11. Take Shelter
10. Poetry
9. Nostalgia for the Light
8. Tuesday, After Christmas
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.
6. Margaret
5. A Separation
4. The Tree of Life
3. Mysteries of Lisbon
2. A Brighter Summer Day
1. Certified Copy
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/the-25-best-films-of-2011/295
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THE 26 BEST FILMS OF 2011
BY RICHARD BRODY IN THE NEW YORKER BLOG
1. The Future
2. The Tree of Life
3. Film Socialisme
4. Hugo
5. Certified Copy
6. Margaret
7. Petition
8. Putty Hill
9. Silver Bullets
10. A Screaming Man
11. The Interrupters
12. You All Are Captains
13. Bellflower
14. J. Edgar
15. Midnight in Paris
16. Terri
17. Impolex
18. Moneyball
19. Road to Nowhere
20. Bridesmaids
21. The Descendants
22. Uncle Kent
23. The Time That Remains
24. Le Havre
25. The Skin I Live In
26. Restless
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2011/12/richard-brody-the-best-in-film.html
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MSN TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2011
10. ' Meek's Cutoff '
9. 'Hugo'
8. 'The Artist'
7. 'A Dangerous Method'
6. 'Certified Copy'
5. 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'
4. 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'
3. 'The Descendants'
2. 'The Tree of Life'
1. 'Melancholia'
MSN MOVIES CONTRIBUTORS’ INDIVIDUAL TOP 10 LISTS
SEAN AXMAKER
1. Mysteries of Lisbon
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. Certified Copy
4. Meek's Cutoff
5. Drive
6. The Descendants
7. Poetry
8. The Tree of Life
9. The Artist
10. Hugo
JIM EMERSON
1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Meek's Cutoff
3. Melancholia
4. Certified Copy
5. Margaret
6. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
7. The Mill and the Cross
8. Take Shelter
9. A Dangerous Method
10. Carnage
DON KAYE
1. The Descendants
2. Melancholia
3. Martha Marcy May Marlene
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
5. The Tree of Life
6. Tyrannosaur
7. Take Shelter
8. X-Men: First Class
9. We Need to Talk About Kevin
10. Shame
GLENN KENNY
1. A Dangerous Method
2. Hugo
3. The Descendants
4. Take Shelter
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. We Need to Talk About Kevin
7. Margaret
8. Mysteries of Lisbon
9. The Skin I Live In
10. The Tree of Life
RICHARD T. JAMESON
1. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
2. Le Havre
3. Certified Copy
4. The Artist
5. Drive
6. Meek's Cutoff
7. A Dangerous Method
8. Martha Marcy May Marlene
9. The Descendants
10. Moneyball
DAVE MCCOY
1. Take Shelter
2. The Muppets
3. A Separation
4. Margaret
5. Shame
6. Meek's Cutoff
7. Certified Copy
8. Moneyball
9. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
10. The Skin I Live In
KIM MORGAN
1. Melancholia
2. The Tree of Life
3. The Skin I Live In
4. Shame
5. A Dangerous Method
6. 13 Assassins
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
8. Moneyball
9. Hugo
10. Sucker Punch
MSN MOVIES USERS TOP 10 POLL
1. Harry Potter
2. Twilight
3. The Help
4. Bridesmaids
5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Captain America
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Fast Five
9. The Descendants
10. Moneyball
MSN MOVIES BLOGGERS’ TOP 10 LISTS
KATE ERBLAND
1. Take Shelter
2. Senna
3. Martha Marcy May Marlene
4. The Skin I Live In
5. Shame
6. Drive
7. 50/50
8. Young Adult
9. Warrior
10. Carnage
WILLIAM GOSS
1. Martha Marcy May Marlene
2. Shame
3. Hugo
4. I Saw the Devil
5. Young Adult
6. 50/50
7. The Interrupters
8. Project Nim
9. The Adventures of Tintin
10. Midnight in Paris
DANNY MILLER
1. The Artist
2. Hugo
3. In the Land of Blood and Honey
4. The Descendants
5. Midnight in Paris
6. Higher Ground
7. The Tree of Life
8. Beginners
9. Tomboy
10. Bridesmaids
CORWIN NEUSE
1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. Bridesmaids
3. A Dangerous Method
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
5. Jane Eyre
6. Like Crazy
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8. Shame
9. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
10. X-Men: First Class
http://entertainment.msn.com/beacon/editorial12.aspx?ptid=4a38594d-5e06-4f6c-afa9-85a5df824026
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