Самый, пожалуй, адекватный список из всех, что видел. 5 лучших европейских фильмов года.

Top-5:
1. Melancholia
2. Shame
3. The Artist
4. Turin Horse
5. The Kid With a Bike

Nerve's 15 Best Films 2011:
1. The Trip
2. Midnight in Paris
3. The Artist
4. Win Win
5. Drive
6. Young Adult
7. The Future
8. Bridesmaids
9. The Descendants
10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
11. Weekend
12. Hugo
13. Melancholia
14. A Dangerous Method
15. Moneyball

10 Best Films 2011:
1. “Take Shelter”
2. “I Saw the Devil”
3. “The Interrupters”
4. “The Trip”
5. “Certified Copy”
6. “A Separation”
7. “Poetry”
8. “Win Win”
9. “Margaret”
10. “Bellflower”
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): “The Adventures of Tintin,” “The Arbor,” “Attack the Block,” “Beginners,” “Cold Weather,” “Drive,” “Hugo,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” “Shame,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin.”

10 Best Films 2011 (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»
Runners: «Another Earth,» «A Dangerous Method,» «Drive,» «Happy Happy,» «Incendies,» «Jane Eyre,» «Le Havre,» «Like Crazy,» «Margin Call,» «Melancholia,» «The Names of Love,» «Senna,» «The Skin I Live In,» «Shame,» «Super 8,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» and «Win Win.»

Todd McCarthy‘s (Hollywood Reporter) choice:

The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Pina (Wim Wenders)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
Margin Call (J.C. Chandor)
Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa)
Warrior (Gavin O’Connor)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
Bellflower (Evan Glodell)
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
Jane Eyre (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Win Win (Tom McCarthy)
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)

Ali Arikan:

1. «Once Upon a Time in Anatolia»
2. «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy»
3. «A Separation»
4. «We Need to Talk About Kevin»
5. «A Dangerous Method»
6. «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives»
7. «Meek’s Cutoff»
8. «Carnage»
9. «Midnight in Paris»
10. «Martha Marcy May Marlene»
Next 10: «Certified Copy,» «Rise of the Planet of the Apes,» «The Kid with a Bike,» «Moneyball,» «Take Shelter,» «Sucker Punch,» «Rango,» «Contagion,» «Attack the Block,» «Hugo.»

Видимо, последний глобальный топ-лист этого года от Village Voice. Заявлено, что участвовало 95 критиков и на основе их списков составили топ. Результаты в принципе не особо отличаются от Film Comment, IndieWIRE, Sight&Sound. Что наводит на вывод: критики мыслят в различных изданиях примерно одинаково по большей части. «Древо жизни» Малика — уже де-факто самый признанный фильм года (в прошлом году была «Социальная сеть», а еще годом ранее «Повелитель бури»).

Пять кинообозревателей L-Magazine поделились своими списками лучших за 2011:

Mark Asch 
1. A Brighter Summer Day
2. Certified Copy
3-4. Tree of Life and Certified Copy
5-6. Margaret and A Separation
7. Impolex
8. Dragonslayer
9. Melancholia
10. Primitive

Henry Stewart
1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Drive
3. Cold Weather
4. Poetry
5. Meek’s Cutoff
6. Tuesday, After Christmas
7. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
8. In the Family
9. Silver Bullets
10. Into Eternity

Nicolas Rapold
Aurora
A Dangerous Method
Certified Copy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Melancholia
Nostalgia for the Light
The Princess of Montpensier
Tabloid
To Die Like a Man
Rep Fun

Benjamin Mercer
1. The Sky Turns
2. Nostalgia for the Light
3. Into the Abyss
4. A Separation
5. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
6. The Tree of Life
7. Strongman
8. A Dangerous Method
9. The Skin I Live In
10. Take Shelter

Jesse Hassenger
1. Super 8
2. The Muppets
3. Cold Weather
4. Source Code
5. The Tree of Life
6. The Future
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9. Young Adult
10. Drive

1. Drive
2. The Artist
3. The Descendants
4. Moneyball
5. Midnight in Paris
6. Hugo
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Margin Call
9. The Tree of Life
10. War Horse, The Help, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

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Electric Sheep:
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, 2011)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowsky, 2010)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2010)
Post Mortem (Pablo Larraín, 2010)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2010)
Red White and Blue (Simon Rumley, 2010)
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino,2010)
Las acacias (Pablo Giorgelli, 2011)