Критики издания Time Out назвали свои персональные списки лучших лент (по 5 фильмов) 2011 года:

Dave Calhoun
1. Margaret
2. Pina
3. We Need To Talk About Kevin
4. The Skin I Live In
5. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

David Jenkins
1. The Tree of Life
2. Margaret
3. The Portuguese Nun
4. Tomboy
5. Norwegian Wood

Tom Huddleston
1. Kill List
2. 13 Assassins
3. The Tree of Life
4. Margaret
5. Attack the Block

Derek Adams
1. Le Quattro Volte
2. True Grit
3. Senna
4. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
5. Limitless

Geoff Andrew
1. True Grit/The Princess of Montpensier
2. Archipelago/A Separation
3. Le Quattro Volte/Nénette
4. Contagion/Men on the Bridge
5. Poetry/A Screaming Man

Cath Clarke
1. The Tree of Life
2. The Artist
3. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
5. Bridesmaids

Издание AV Club также подвело свои итоги 2011 года. На сайте опубликован топ-15 фильмов года по их версии.

1. The Tree Of Life
2. Certified Copy
3. A Separation
4. Martha Marcy May Marlene
5. Meek’s Cutoff
6. Drive
7. The Future
8. The Skin I Live In
9. Hugo
10. Margaret
11. Weekend
12. Tabloid
13. The Arbor
14. The Interrupters
15. Submarine

Andrew O’Hehir’s 10 Best Films 2011:

1. Poetry
2. Melancholia
3. Take Shelter
4. Coriolanus
5. Mysteries of Lisbon
6. A Separation
7. Drive
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
9. Meek’s Cutoff
10. Putty Hill

Kristopher Tapley’s 10 Best Films 2011:

1. Margaret
2. The Tree of Life
3. Drive
4. Rampart
5. Shame
6. Martha Marcy May Marlene
7. A Separation
8. The Adventures of Tintin
9. Take Shelter
10. Rango

Лучшие фильмы 2011 по версии издания New Yorker:

Hugo
The Tree of Life
Margin Call
Certified Copy
A Separation
Contagion
The Descendants
J. Edgar
Source Code
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

John Water‘s choice:
1 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
2 Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
3 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu)
4 Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
5 Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
6 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)
7 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
8 I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (Claude and Nathan Miller)
9 We Were Here (David Weissman)
10 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Ed Halter‘s choice:
1 Inkblot films (Luther Price)
2 Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
3 Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler)
4 High-Definition Video Guide (Electronic Arts Intermix)
5 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
6 Quality Control (Kevin Jerome Everson)
7 John Smith (Lux DVD box set)
8 You Are Not I (Sara Driver)
9 Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
10 Ericka Beckman, Manuel DeLanda, and Bette Gordon (Anthology Film Archives, New York)

artforum

20 лучших фильмов года по версии издания Film Maker:

1. Shame
2. The Time That Remains
3. Drive
4. Certified Copy
5. Meek’s Cutoff.
6. Sleeping Beauty
7. Mysteries Of Lisbon
8. Poetry.
9. The Turin Horse
10. We Need To Talk About Kevin
11. Into The Abyss
12. Beginners
13. Melancholia
14. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
15. Cold Weather
16. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
17. The Tree Of Life
18. Rampart
19. Carnage
20. Martha Marcy May Marlene

В алфавитном порядке:

1. The Adventures of Tintin
2. Beginners
3. Coriolanus
4. The Descendants
5. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
6. Hell and Back Again
7. Into the Abyss
8. Margin Call
9. Mysteries of Lisbon
10. War Horse

nymag

Журнал «Кайе» как всегда жжот своим выбором фильмов года. «Супер 8″ в списке особенно доставляет. Зато есть и Триер, и Малик, что есть гуд. Келли Рейкхард, Мануэл ди Оливейра естественно тоже великолепные.

Top-10:
A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel)
Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont)
The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
Super 8 (JJ Abrams)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti)

Знаменитый критик издания The Guardian подвел свои итоги года, назвав лучших в различных номинациях. Вот лучшие фильмы 2011 по мнению Питера Брэдшоу:

Best films 2011:
The Artist (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
Margaret (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
A Separation (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Poetry (dir. Lee Chang-dong)
The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick)
Le Quattro Volte (dir. Michelangelo Frammartino)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
The Skin I Live In (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Bridesmaids (dir. Paul Feig)