Year-End Lists

Keith Phipps: Best Films of 2011, as published by The A.V. Club

Top 15

1. Certified Copy
   Abbas Kiarostami
2. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
3. War Horse
   Steven Spielberg
4. Martha Marcy May Marlene
   Sean Durkin
5. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
6. Hugo
   Martin Scorsese
7. Meek’s Cutoff
   Kelly Reichardt
8. The Skin I Live In
   Pedro Almodóvar
9. Tyrannosaur
   Paddy Considine
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson
11. Drive
    Nicolas Winding Refn
12. Le Havre
    Aki Kaurismäki
13. The Mill and the Cross
    Lech Majewski
14. Young Adult
    Jason Reitman
15. Tabloid
    Errol Morris

The next five

• Shame
  Steve McQueen
• Weekend
  Andrew Haigh
• 13 Assassins
  Takashi Miike
• Project Nim
  James Marsh
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  Rupert Wyatt