Best of 2011

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)

2. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)

3. The Sunset Limited (Tommy Lee Jones)

4. Hanna (Joe Wright)

5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)

6. The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski)

7. Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)

8. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)

9. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)

10. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)

11. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

12. War Horse (Steven Spielberg)

Honorable Mentions: Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn), Moneyball (Bennett Miller), Super 8 (JJ Abrams), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher), X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn), The Descendants (Alexander Payne)


Most Underrated/Unheard of: Blackthorn (Mateo Gil)

Most Overrated: Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)

Favorite Guilty Pleasure: Sucker Punch (Zach Snyder)

Worst Movie I Saw This Year: Crazy Stupid Love (Glenn Ficara, John Requa)


(actually posted Feb 2015)