Film 2011 Critics Top 10

7/30/2019 Film 2011 Critics Top 10

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2011 Critics' Picks


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A.V. Club

1 The Tree of Life

2 Certified Copy

3A Separation

4 Martha Marcy May Marlene

5 Meeks Cutoff

6 Drive

7 The Future

8 The Skin I Live In

9 Hugo

10 Margaret

A.V. Club(Sam Adams)

1 The Future

2 Certified Copy

3 Carnage

4 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

5 Higher Ground6 The Tree of Life

7 Meeks Cutoff


9 The Interrupters

10 Submarine

A.V. Club(Noel Murray)


2 Hugo

3A Separation

4 The Future

5 Weekend

6 Tabloid

7 Certified Copy

8 Terri

9 The Tree of Life

10 Rango

A.V. Club(Keith Phipps)

1 Certified Copy

2 The Tree of Life

3 War Horse


5A Separation

6 Hugo

7 Meeks Cutoff


9 Tyrannosaur


A.V. Club(Nathan Rabin)

1 The Tree of Life



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Boston Globe(Ty Burr)

1 Hugo

2 Drive

3 The Clock

4 The Artist

5 Le Quattro Volte

6A Separation

7 Bill Cunningham New York8 Moneyball

9 Win Win

10 Limitless

Boston Globe(Wesley Morris)

1 Margaret

2 Le Quattro Volte

3 Drive

4 The Interrupters

5 City of Life and Death

6 Poetry

7 3

8 Weekend

9 Contagion

10 The Future

Boxoffice Magazine(David Ehrlich)

1 Certified Copy (tie) This is Not a Film

2 The Tree of Life

3 Kill List

4 The Arbor

5 Melancholia

6 Hugo


8 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

9 The Adventures of Tintin

10A Separation

Boxoffice Magazine

(Kate Erbland)

1 Take Shelter

2 Senna



5 Shame

6 Drive

7 50/50


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8 Young Adult

9 Warrior

10 Carnage

Boxoffice Magazine(Ray Greene)

1 Meeks Cutoff

2 The Arbor

3 Wrinkles

4A Separation

5 The Tree of Life

6 Mysteries of Lisbon

7 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

8Another Earth

9 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

10 Redland

Boxoffice Magazine(Pete Hammond)

1 The Artist

2 The Descendants

3 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

4 Hugo

5 Le Havre

6 Midnight in Paris

7 Moneyball

8 The Muppets

9 Super 8

10 War Horse

Boxoffice Magazine(Mark Keizer)

1 The Arbor

2 The Artist

3 The Descendants

4 Drive

5 Melancholia

6 Midnight in Paris

7A Separation

8 Take Shelter


10 The Tree of Life


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Boxoffice Magazine(Amy Nicholson)

1 A Better Life

2Anonymous

3 Beginners

4 Bridesmaids

5 The Green Hornet

6 The Last Circus

7 Melancholia

8 Project Nim

9 Rise of the Planet of the Apes

10 Young Adult

Boxoffice Magazine(Mark Olsen)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Melancholia

3 Meeks Cutoff

4 Margaret


6 We Need to Talk About Kevin

7 The Interrupters

8 Beginners

9A Dangerous Method

10 Cold Weather

Boxoffice Magazine(James Rocchi)

1 Drive

2 Bellflower


4 The Interrupters

5A Separation

6 Shame


8 The Muppets

9 Margaret

10 The Arbor

Boxoffice Magazine(Sara Vizcarrondo)


2 Tabloid

3 Certified Copy

4 Drive

5 No Strings Attached




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8 Fright Night

9 Love Exposure

10 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Chicago Reader(Andrea Gronvall)

1 The Interrupters

2A Separation

3 Incendies4 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

5A Dangerous Method

6 Certified Copy

7 Terri

8 The Kid with a Bike

9 13 Assassins

10 Nostalgia for the Light

Chicago Reader(Ben Sachs)

1 Aurora

2 Secret Sunshine

3 Film Socialisme

4 Goodbye, First Love

5 Poetry

6 The Strange Case of Angelica

7 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

8 Target

9 13 Assassins

10And Everything is Going Fine

Chicago Reader(J.R. Jones)

1 Of Gods and Men

2 Bridesmaids

3 The Tree of Life

4 Terri

5 Tabloid

6 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

7 The Elephant in the Living Room

8 The Wise Kids

9 Beautiful Boy

10 Margin Call


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Chicago Sun-Times(Roger Ebert)

1 A Separation

2 Shame

3 The Tree of Life

4 Hugo

5 Take Shelter

6 Kinyarwanda

7 Drive8 Midnight in Paris

9 Le Havre

10 The Artist

Chicago Tribune(Michael Phillips)

1 Poetry

2 Moneyball

3 Certified Copy

4 The Descendants

5 The Interrupters

6 Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

7A Separation

8 The Tree of Life


10 Weekend

Christian Science Monitor(Peter Rainer)

1 A Separation

2 Of Gods and Men

3 Like Crazy

4 Cave of Forgotten Dreams

5 The Descendants

6 Into the Abyss

7 Win Win

8 Certified Copy

9 Rejoice and Shout


Cleveland Plain Dealer(Clint OConnor)

1 Margin Call

2A Dangerous Method

3 Shame

4 The Tree of Life

5 Poetry

6 The Help

7 The Descendants


9Another Earth

10 Bill Cunningham New York


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Cinema Blend(Eric Eisenberg)

1 Drive

2 50/50

3 The Descendants

4 Shame

5 The Muppets

6 Moneyball

7 Take Shelter

8 The Guard

9 Rango

10 Conan OBrien Cant Stop

Cinema Blend(Katey Rich)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Meeks Cutoff

3 The Descendants

4 Take Shelter

5 Young Adult

6 The Future

7Attack the Block

8 Weekend



Cinema Blend(Josh Tyler)

1 50/50

2 The Muppets

3 The Ides of March

4 Cedar Rapids

5 Hugo

6Attack the Block

7 Young Adult

8 The Descendants

9 Thor

10 Shame

Dallas Morning News(Chris Vognar)

1 Hugo

2 Take Shelter

3 War Horse

4 Shame

5 The Descendants

6 Marwencol

7 Moneyball

8A Separation

9 Bridesmaids


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Denver Post(Lisa Kennedy)

1 Moneyball

2 The Tree of Life


4 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close5 The Descendants

6 Bridesmaids

7 Beginners

8A Separation

9 Hugo


Empire (UK)

1 Drive

2 Senna

3 The Kings Speech4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

5 The Artist


7 True Grit

8 Bridesmaids


10 Black Swan

Entertainment Weekly(Lisa Schwarzbaum)

1 Melancholia

2 Bridesmaids

3 The Artist

4 Hugo

5A Separation

6 The Descendants

7 Pina

8 Moneyball

9 The Interrupters

10 Beginners

Entertainment Weekly(Owen Gleiberman)

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Descendants

3 Bridesmaids

4A Separation


6 Beginners

7 Rampart


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8 Crazy Stupid Love

9 The Trip

10 Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Film School rejects(Neil Miller)

1 Drive

2 Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey

3Attack the Block

4 Rango5 Submarine

6 Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

7 Moneyball


9 Take Shelter

10 Captain America: The First Avenger

Film.com(Christine Champ)

1 Shame

2 The Artist

3 Young Adult

4 Melancholia


6 Salvation Boulevard

7 The Descendants

8 Hugo

9 Drive

10 The Conspirator

Film.com

(Dre Rivas)

1 Tree of Life

2 Warrior

3A Separation

4 War Horse

5 Drive


7 Hugo

8 The Artist



Film.com(Loquacious Muse)


2 Hugo

3 Melancholia

4 Midnight in Paris

5 Take Shelter


7 The Loneliest Planet

8 Young Adult


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9 Footnote

10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (tie) War Horse

Film.com(Eric D. Snider)

1 Drive

2 Bellflower

3 The Tree of Life

4 50/50

5 Rango


7 Winnie the Pooh

8 Rubber

9 Like Crazy


Film.com(Laremy Legel)

1 Drive

2 Like Crazy

3 The Descendants4 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

5 The Ides of March

6 The Artist

7 Bellflower

8Attack the Block

9 Tucker and Dale vs. Evil


Film.com(Staff and contributor core)

1 Drive

2 Tree of Life3 Bellflower

4 The Descendants


6 The Artist

7 Melancholia

8 Hugo


10 Like Crazy

The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Liam Lacey & Rich Groen)

1 The Artist

2 Hugo

3 Le Havre

4 Meeks Cutoff

5 Melancholia

6 Poetry

7 Shame

8 Take Shelter


10 The Tree of Life


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The Guardian(Peter Bradshaw)

1 The Artist

2 Margaret

3 A Separation


5 Poetry

6 The Tree of Life

7 Le Quattro Volte8 We Need to Talk about Kevin


10 Bridesmaids

HitFix(Gregory Ellwood)

1 Shame

2 Drive


4 Like Crazy

5 The Descendants

6 Beginners

7 The Tree of Life


9 Melancholia

10 Weekend

HitFix(Guy Lodge)

1 Weekend

2 Margaret

3 Drive

4 Martha Marcy May Marlene5Alps

6 Tomboy

7 Damsels in Distress


9 Elena

10 Wuthering heights

HitFix(Kristopher Tapley)

1 Margaret

2 The Tree of Life

3 Drive4 Rampart

5 Shame


7A Separation


9 Take Shelter

10 Rango

HitFix(Drew McWeeney)


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1 Melancholia

2 Miss Bala


4 Bellflower

5 Take this Waltz

6 Drive

7 Young Adult

8Attack the Block

9 The Skin I Live In10 Warrior

Hollywood Reporter(Scott Feinberg)

1 The Artist

2 War Horse

3 Moneyball

4 Margin Call

5 The Ides of March

6 Shame

7 The Wistleblower


9 Pariah

10 Like Crazy

Hollywood Reporter(Todd McCarthy)

1 The Descendants

2A Dangerous Method

3 The Tree of Life


5A Separation

6 Hugo

7 Le Quattro Volte

8 Tuesday, After Christmas

9 Poetry

10 Shame

Houston Chronicle(Amy Biancolli)

1 The Artist

2 Midnight in Paris

3 The Descendants



6 The Illusionist


8 Of Gods and Men


10 Take Shelter

Huffington Post (Marshall Fine)


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1 The Descendants

2 Drive

3 Shame

4 Incendies

5 The Artist

6 Moneyball

7 Margin Call


9A Separation10 Young Adult

IMDB

1 The Descendants

2 Shame


4 The Artist

5 Melancholia


7 Crazy Stupid Love8 Super 8

9 Like Crazy

10 The Ides of March

IndieWire(Peter Knegt)

1 Melancholia

2 We Need to Talk about Kevin

3 Shame

4 Le Quattro Volte

5 The Tree of Life

6 Weekend

7 Drive



10 The Arbor

IndieWire(Eric Kohn)

1 Melancholia

2 Meeks Cutoff

3 Le Havre

4 Take Shelter


6 Beginners

7A Separation

8 Cold Weather

9 Le Quattro Volte


IndieWire/Thompson on Hollywood(Anne Thompson)


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1 Pina

2 Weekend

3 Melancholia

4 The Descendants


6 I Saw the Devil

7A Dangerous Method

8 Jane Eyre

9 Win Win10 Take Shelter

LA Weekly(J. Hoberman)

1 A Dangerous Method

2 Melancholia


4Aurora

5 Seeking the Monkey King

6 To Die Like a man

7 Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Past Lives

8 Hugo

9 J. Edgar

10 United Red Army

LA Weekly(Karina Longworth)

1 Margaret

2 Melancholia

3 Meeks Cutoff

4 Tree of Life

5 The Arbor

6A Separation

7 Drive

8 Contagion

9 The Future

10 Moneyball


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Los Angeles Times(Kenneth Turan)

1 The Clock

2 The Artist


4 Like Crazy

5 Midnight in Paris

6 Of Gods and Men

7 Poetry8A Separation


10 Win Win

Los Angeles Times(Betsy Sharkey)

1 The Descendants



4 Beginners

5 Drive

6 Melancholia

7 Moneyball


9 The Help

10 Young Adult

McLeans Magazine(Brian D. Johnson)

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Descendants

3A Separation

4 Moneyball

5 The Artist6 Melancholia


8 Drive

9 Margin Call

10 Hugo

11 War Horse

Metacritic.com(Marc Doyle)

1 13 Assassins

2 The Descendants

3 Of Gods and Men

4 Bellflower

5 Moneyball

6 The Trip



9 The Artist

10 Drive

Metro News (Toronto)(The Canadian Press)

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National Post [Toronto](Chris Knight)

1 The Artist


3 Winnie the Pooh

4 Caf de Flore

5 The Guard


7 Project Nim8Attack the Block


10 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

National Post [Toronto](Barry Hertz)

1 Drive

2 Take Shelter

3 The Descendants

4 Contagion

5 The Tree of Life

6Attack the Block7 Submarine

8 Bridesmaids


10 Shame (tie) Melancholia

National Post [Toronto](Jay Stone)

1 The Artist

2 Hugo

3 The Descendants

4 The Tree of Life

5 Margin Call

6 Bridesmaids

7 Shame

8 Rango

9 Drive

10 Midnight in Paris

National Post [Toronto](Katherine Monk)

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Artist



5 Shame

6 Beginners

7 The Devils Double

8 Take Shelter

9 The Descendants

10 The Muppets

National Post [Toronto](Mark Medley)


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1 Drive

2 The Muppets

3Attack the Block

4 Bridesmaids

5 Crazy Stupid Love

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National Post [Toronto](Melissa Leong)

1 Bridesmaids

2 Moneyball

3A Separation

4 50/50

5 Fright Night

6 The Descendants


8 Crazy Stupid Love

9 Page One: Inside the New York Times

10 The First Grader

NPR(Robert Mondello)

1 The Artist

2 Tree of Life

3 Melancholia

4 Midnight in Paris

5 The Trip

6 Rango

7 Incendies

8A Separation


10 Pina

New Orleans Times-Picayune(Mike Scott)

1 The Artist

2 Hugo

3 War Horse


5 The Tree of Life


7 The Help

8 Super 8

9 Midnight in Paris

10 The Descendants


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New York Daily News(Elizabeth Weitzman)

1 Hugo

2 The Artist

3 Moneyball

4 The Trip

5 Higher Ground

6 Shame

7 Melancholia8 Crime After Crime

9 Roadie

10 Winnie the Pooh

New York Daily News(Joe Neumaier)

1 Margin Call

2 The Descendants

3 The Tree of Life

4 Beginners


6 Moneyball


8 Source Code

9 50/50

10 Super 8

New York Magazine(David Edelstein)


2 Beginners

3 Coriolanus

4 The Descendants

5 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

6 Hell and Back Again

7 Into the Abyss

8 Margin Call


10 War Horse

New York Post(Lou Lumenick)

1 The Descendants


3 Melancholia (tie) Tree of Life

4 Margin Call


6 The Artist

7 J. Edgar

8 Moneyball


10 We Bought a Zoo

New York Post


20/43

(Kyle Smith)

1 The Artist

2 War Horse

3 Bridesmaids

4 Captain America: The First Avenger

5 Drive

6 Super 8

7 Rango

8 Contagion

9 The Iron Lady

10 50/50

The New York Times(Stephen Holden)

1 The Descendants

2 Of Gods and Men

3 The Tree of Life

4 Margin Call

5 Melancholia

6 We Were Here

7 Incendies

8A Dangerous Method

9 Certified Copy

10 Moneyball

The New York Times(A.O. Scott)

BridesmaidsA Brighter Summer Day

Cedar Rapids

A Dangerous Method

The Descendants

The Future

The Help

Incendies

Into the Abyss

Margin Call

Meeks Cutoff

Mysteries of Lisbon

Le Quattro Volte

The Tree of Life

Tuesday, After Christmas

War Horse

Warrior

Weekend

Winnie the Pooh

Young Adult

The New York Times(Manohla Dargis)


21/43

Abracadabra

Aurora

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Bridesmaids

Contagion

A Dangerous Method

J. Edgar

Le Havre

HugoMelancholia

Moneyball

My Joy

Mysteries of Lisbon

Of Gods and Men

Poetry

Le Quattro Volte

The Return

Seeking the Monkey King

The Skin I Live In

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Voluptuous Sleep

Warrior

The New Yorker(David Denby)

1 Hugo

2 The Tree of Life

3 Margin Call

4 Certified Copy

5A Separation

6 Contagion

7 The Descendants

8 J. Edgar

9 Source Code


The New Yorker(Richard Brody)

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

10A Screaming Man


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Newsweek(David Ansen)

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Now Magazine

1 The Tree of Life

2 Meeks Cutoff

3Another Year

4 Take Shelter

5 The Trip

6 Project Nim7 The Illusionist

8 Caf de Flore

9 Beginners

10 Young Adult

Now Magazine(Norman Wilner)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Caf de Flore

3 Meeks Cutoff

4 Project Nim5 The Guard


7 Take Shelter

8 The Trip

9 Four Lions

10 The Illusionist

Now Magazine(Susan G. Cole)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Beginners

3 The Artist4 Margaret

5 Biutiful

6Another Year

7 Pink Ribbons, Inc.

8 Young Adult

9 Wiebos War

10 The Mill and the Cross

Now Magazine


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(Glenn Sumi)

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Trip

3Another Year

4 The Illusionist

5 Melancholia

6 Win Win

7 Project Nim

8Attack the Block

9 War Horse

10 Young Adult

Now Magazine(Radheyan Simonpillai)

1 Meeks Cutoff

2 Take Shelter

3 The Descendants

4 The Tree of Life

5 Of Gods and Men

6 Poetry

7 Dogtooth


9Another Year

10 Contagion

The Observer(Philip French)

1 Archipelago

2 The Artist

3 The Deep Blue Sea

4 Hugo

5 The Kings Speech6 Midnight in Paris

7 Le Quattro Volte

8A Separation


10 True Grit


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The Oregonian(Stan Hall)


2 Weekend

3 How to Die in Oregon (tie) We Were Here


5 World on a Wire

6 Take Shelter

7 Drive8 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

9 Meeks Cutoff

10 Margin Call

The Oregonian(Shawn Levy)

1 Hugo

2 The Interrupters

3 The Guard

4 Mildred Pierce

5 How to Die in Oregon

6 On the Bowery

7 Rango



10 Beginners

The Oregonian(Marc Mohan)

1 Hugo



4 The Muppets5 The Double Hour

6 Viva Riva!

7 Bridesmaids

8 The Tree of Life

9 Bellflower


The Oregonian(Mike Russell)

1 Drive

2 13 Assassins

3 Vengeance

4 Hugo

5 The Tree of Life

6 Bellflower (tie) Martha Marcy May Marlene (tie) Young Adult

7Attack the Block

8 The Artist

9 Rango

10 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (tie) Rise of the Planet of the Apes

The Portland Press Herald(Roger Moore)


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1 Everything Must Go

2 Take Shelter

3 Hanna

4 Midnight in Paris

5 The Ides of March

6 The Help

7 Puss in Boots

8 Soul Surfer

9 Insidious10

Ottawa Citizen(Katherine Monk)

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Artist


4 Martha Marcy Mary Marlene

5 Shame

6 Beginners

7 The Devils Double

8 Take Shelter

9 The Descendants

10 The Muppets

Ottawa Citizen(Jay Stone)

1 The Artist

2 Hugo

3 The Descendants

4 The Tree of Life

5 Margin Call

6 Bridesmaids

7 Shame

8 Rango

9 Drive


Philadelphia Inquirer(Steven Rea)

1 The Artist

2 Beginners3 The Descendants

4 Jane Eyre

5 Melancholia

6 Moneyball

7 Of Gods and Men

8 Take Shelter

9 The Tree of Life

10 The Trip

Philadelphia Inquirer


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(Carrie Rickey)

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Playlist(Christopher Bell)


2 Certified Copy

3 Putty Hill


5 Meeks Cutoff

6 Shame

7 Tabloid

8 My Joy

9 You All are Captains

10 General Orders No. 9

Playlist(Kevin Jagernauth)

1 Le Havre

2 The Artist

3 Take Shelter

4 Jane Eyre

5 The Interrupters

6 Drive

7 The Kid With a Bike

8 Shame

9 Beginners

10 The Tree of Life

Playlist(Oliver Lyttelton)


2A Separation3Alps

4 Wuthering Heights

5 Beginners

6 Drive


8 Weekend

9 Margaret

10 Oslo, August 31st

Playlist


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(Drew Taylor)

1 Beginners


3 Drive



6 Contagion

7 Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

8 Hanna

9 Margaret

10Attack the Block

Playlist(Gabe Toro)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Margaret

3 Certified Copy

4 Melancholia

5 The Last Circus

6 Bellflower


8 Warrior


10 Hobo With a Shotgun

ReelViews(James Berardinelli)


2 The Descendants

3 Shame

4 The Tree of Life

5 The Artist




9 Blue Valentine

10 Hugo (tie) Super 8

Reverse Shot(Staff consensus)

1 The Tree of Life


3 Certified Copy


5 Meeks Cutoff


7 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

8 Take Shelter

9 The Arbor

10 Historias Extraordinarias


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Rolling Stone(Peter Travers)

1 Drive

2 The Artist

3 The Descendants

4 Moneyball

5 Midnight in Paris

6 Hugo

7 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy8 Margin Call

9 The Tree of Life

10 War Horse - The Help - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2

Salon(Andrew O'Hehir)

1 Poetry

2 Melancholia

3 Take Shelter

4 Coriolanus

5 Mysteries of Lisbon6A Separation

7 Drive

8 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives

9 Meeks Cutoff

10 Putty Hill

San Francisco Chronicle(Peter Hartlaub)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Hugo

3 Take Shelter

4 Win Win

5 Warrior

6 Senna

7 The Descendants

8 Hanna


10 Crazy Stupid Love


29/43

San Francisco Chronicle(Mick LaSalle)

1 The Artist

2 My Week with Marilyn

3 One Day

4 Bridesmaids

5 Like Crazy

6 We Were Here

7 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo8 Midnight in Paris

9 Moneyball

10 Love Crime

San Francisco Chronicle(Leba Hertz)

1 The Artist

2 Midnight in Paris

3 We Were Here

4 Hugo

5 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

6 Super 8

7 War Horse

8 Sing Your Song



Sight & Sound

1 The Tree of Life

2A Separation


4 Melancholia

5 The Artist

6 The Turin Horse

7 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia


9 Le Quattro Volte

10 This is Not a Film (tie) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

ScreenCrave


2A Dangerous Method


4 The Guard

5 Win Win

6 Take Shelter

7 Senna

8 Red State

9 Midnight in Paris


30/43


Slant Magazine(Nick Schager)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Certified Copy

3A Separation

4 Poetry

5 Uncle Boonmee Who can Recall His Pas Lives

6 Tuesday, After Christmas7 Nostalgia for the Light

8 Foreign Parts

9 Meeks Cutoff

10 Bellflower

Slant Magazine(Simon Abrams)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Certified Copy


4 Take Shelter

5 Margaret


7 Road to Nowhere

8 Love Exposure

9 The Time that Remains

10 Pina

Slant Magazine(Chuck Bowen)

1 A Brighter Summer Day

2 A Separation

3 Hugo4 Take Shelter

5 Putty Hill

6 El Sicario, Room 164


8 The Interrupters

9 Melancholia

10 Cold Weather

Slant(Jesse Cataldo)

1 Certified Copy

2 A Brighter Summer Day

3 The Tree of Life


5 Extraordinary Stories


7 Film Socialisme


9 Meeks Cutoff

10 Margaret


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Slate(Dana Stevens)

1 Buck


3 Certified Copy

4 The Clock

5 The Interrupters


7 A Separation8 The Tree of Life


10 Weekend

Attack the Block

St. Louis Post Dispatch(Joe Williams)

1 The Artist


3 The Descendants

4 Hugo


6 Poetry

7 Senna

8 Submarine

9 Take Shelter

10 The Tree of Life

St. Louis Post Dispatch(Calvin Wilson)

1 The Adjustment Bureau

2 Beginners

3 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo4 Hanna


6 Moneyball

7 Shame

8 Take Shelter

9 The Tree of Life


St. Petersburg Times(Steve Persall)

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Telegraph (UK)(Robbie Collin)


32/43

1 The Artist

2 Drive


4 Margaret

5 Bridesmaids

6 Kill List

7 Wuthering Heights

8 Moneyball

9 The Skin I Live In10 The Help


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Time Magazine(Richard Corliss)

1 The Artist

2 Hugo

3 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

4 The Tree of Life

5 War Horse

6 Super 8

7 Cave of Forgotten Dreams8 Rise of the Planet of the Apes

9 Rango

10 Fast Five

Time-Out New York(David Fear)

1 Shame

2A Separation


4 Moneyball


6 Cold Weather

7 Incendies

8 Senna

9 The Trip

10 My Joy

Time-Out New York(Joshua Rothkopf)

1 Drive

2 Shame

3 We Need to Talk about Kevin4 13 Assassins

5 The Trip

6 Coriolanus

7A Separation

8 Incendies

9 My Perestroika

10Attack the Block

Time-Out New York(Keith Uhlich)

1 Certified Copy

2 Margaret

3 The Tree of Life


5 Psychohydrography

6 Take Shelter

7 To Die Like a Man

8 Poetry

9Agrarian Utopia

10 Sucker Punch


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The Toronto Star(Peter Howell)

1 Tree of Life

2 Certified Copy

3A Separation


5 Take Shelter

6 The Descendants

7 The Artist8 Drive

9 Le Quattro Volte

10 Le Havre

The Toronto Sun(Jim Slotek)

1 Moneyball

2 Tyrannosaur

3 The Artist

4 Hugo

5 The Descendants

6 The Trip

7Attack the Block




The Toronto Sun(Liz Braun)

1 The Tree of Life


3 Shame4 The Guard

5 Drive




9 Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

10 Take Shelter

TV Guide

1 Bridesmaids

2 Midnight in Paris

3 Drive

4 Super 8


6 Moneyball

7 Hugo

8 50/50

9 Crazy Stupid Love

10 The Rise of the Planet of the Apes


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USA Today(Claudia Puig)

1 The Artist

2 Beginners

3A Better Life

4 Bridesmaids

5 The Descendants

6 50/50

7 Like Crazy8A Separation

9 The Tree of Life

10 Win Win

Village Voice(Aaron Hillis)

1 Melancholia

2 Drive

3 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Live

4 Meeks Cutoff

5 The Arbor


7 Shame

8 Position Among the Stars


10 Kaboom

Village Voice(J. Hoberman)

1 A Dangerous Method

2 Melancholia


4Aurora

5 Seeking the Monkey King

6 To Die Like a Man


8 Hugo

9 J. Edgar

10 United Red Army

Village Voice(Eric Hynes)

1 The Tree of Life

2 Take Shelter

3 The Interrupters4 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives


6A Dangerous Method

7 The Arbor

8 Weekend

9A Separation


Village Voice(Karina Longworth)


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1 Margaret

2 Melancholia

3 Meeks Cutoff

4 The Tree of Life

5 The Arbor

6A Separation

7 Drive

8 Contagion

9 The Future10 Moneyball

Village Voice(Nick Pinkerton)


2 The Descendants

3 Final Destination 5

4 The Future

5 La Pivelina


7 The Princess of Montpensier


9 Take Shelter

10 The Tree of Life

Wall Street Journal(Joe Morgenstern)

1 A Separation

2 The Artist

3 Bridesmaids

4 Buck

5 The Descendants

6 Midnight in Paris

7 Moneyball

8 Of Gods and Men

9 The Tree of Life

10 Young Adult

Washington Post(Ann Hornaday)

1 Meeks Cutoff

2 The Descendants

3 Moneyball

4 Buck

5 Beginners

6 Take Shelter


8 The Trip

9 Drive

10 Win Win

Summary of 2011 Critics Top Ten Lists


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13 Assassins

50/50

The Adjustment Bureau

The Adventures of Tintin

Agrarian Utopia

Alps

Amigo

And Everything is Going Fine

Anonymous

Another Earth

Another Year

The Arbor

Archipelago

The Artist

Attack the Block

Aurora

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Beautiful Boy

Beginners

Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey

Bellflower

A Better Life

Bill Cunningham New York

Biutiful

Born to Be Wild 3DA Boy and His Samurai

Bridesmaids

A Brighter Summer Day

Buck

Caf de Flore

Captain America: The First Avenger

Carnage

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cedar Rapids

Certified Copy

City of Life and Death

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

The Clock

Cold Weather

Conan OBrien Cant Stop

The Conspirator

Contagion


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Coriolanus

Cowboys & Aliens

Crazy Stupid Love

Crime after Crime

Damsels in Distress

A Dangerous Method

The Deep Blue Sea

The Descendants

Detective Dee and the Mystery of thePhantom Flame

The Devils Double

The Double Hour

Drive

Elena

The Elephant in the Living Room

Everything Must Go

Extraordinary Stories

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Fast Five

Film Socialisme

Final Destination 5

The First Grader

Foreign Parts

Footnote

Fright Night

The Future

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

General Orders No. 9

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Goodbye, First Love

The Green Hornet

The Grey

The Guard

Hanna

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2

Le Havre

Headhunters

Heartbeats

Hell and Back Again

The Help

Higher Ground

Hobo with a Shotgun

How to Die in Oregon

Hugo


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I Saw the Devil

The Ides of March

The Illusionist

Incendies

Insidious

The Interrupters

Into the Abyss

The Iron Lady

J. Edgar

Jane Eyre

Kaboom

The Kid with a Bike

Kill List

Kinyarwanda

Knuckle

The Last Circus

Legend of the Fist: The Return of ChenZhen

Like Crazy

Limitless

The Loneliest Planet

Love Crime

Love Exposure

Margaret

Margin Call

Martha Marcy May Marlene

Meeks Cutoff

Melancholia

Midnight in Paris

Mildred Pierce

The Mill and the Cross

Miss Bala

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

Moneyball

The Muppets

The Music Never Stopped

My Joy

My Perestroika

My Week with Marilyn

Mysteries of Lisbon

The Myth of the American Sleepover

No Strings Attached


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Nostalgia for the Light

Of Gods and Men

On the Bowery

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

One Day

Oslo, August 31st

Page One: Inside the New York Times

Pariah

Petition

Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

Pina

Pink Ribbons, Inc.

La Pivellina

Poetry

Position Among the Stars

The Princess of Montpensier

Project Nim

Psychohydrography

Puss in Boots

Putty Hill

Le Quattro Volte

Rampart

Rango

Red State

Redland

Rejoice and Shout

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Road to Nowhere

Roadie

Rubber

Salvation Boulevard

A Screaming Man

Secret Sunshine

Seeking the Monkey King

SENNA

A Separation

Shame

El Sicario, Room 164

Silver Bullets

Sing your Song

The Skin I Live In

Soul Surfer

Source Code


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The Strange Case of Angelica

Submarine

Sucker Punch

Super 8

Tabloid

Take Shelter

Take this Waltz

Target

Terri

This is Not a Film

Thor

The Time that Remains

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

To Die Like a Man

Tomboy

Tree of Life

The Trip

Troll Hunter

Tucker and Daly vs. Evil

Tuesday, After Christmas

The Turin Horse

Tyrannosaur

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His PastLives

United Red ArmyVengeance

Viva Riva!

War Horse

Warrior

We Bought a Zoo

We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Were Here

Weekend

The Whistleblower

Wiebos War

Win Win

Winnie the Pooh

The Wise Kids

World on a Wire

Wrinkles

Wuthering Heights

X-Men: First Class

You All are Captains


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Young Adult

Summary of 2011 Critics Top 10 Lists

1 The Tree of Life

2 The Artist

3 Drive

4 Hugo

5 Melancholia

6 The Descendants

7 Moneyball

8A Separation

9 Certified Copy

10 Shame

11 Take Shelter


13 Meeks Cutoff

14 Margaret


16 Beginners


18 Bridesmaids


20 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives21A Dangerous Method


23 Margin Call

24 Weekend


26 Poetry



29 The Interrupters

30 War Horse

Here is a list of 20 Best films from Film Commentmagazines editors and contributorstop ten lists.This is a more international list as there is a larger selection of foreign films due to manof the contributing critics being from different parts of the world.

Film Comment Magazines Final Cut 2011 Critics Top 10Lists

1 The Tree of Life


3 Melancholia


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4A Separation

5A Dangerous Method


7 Certified Copy

8 Meeks Cutoff

9 Hugo

10 Poetry

11 Film Socialisme

12 Le Havre


14 Le Quattro Volte

15 The Descendants


17A Brighter Summer Day


19 Take Shelter

20 Margaret

The British film magazine Sight & Sound: The International Film Magazine hascompiled a list of top 11 films of 2010 from its 85 contributing critics and curators. Evenon this list of films compiled from a very international group of critics and curators TheTree of Life still comes out on top.A Separation also ranks very high on all the threelists.

Sight & Sound The International Film Magazines FinalTop 13 List of 2011 films compiled from 85 of its critics andcurators

1 The Tree of Life

2A Separation


4 Melancholia

5 The Artist

6 The Turin Horse

7 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia


9 Le Quattro Volte

10 This is Not a Film


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