The Best Films of 2011

It took me like four months to finish my year-end lists for 2011, but they are online over on Livejournal. Here are the no-frills lists.

The Top 25 Films of 2011

1. Drive - Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn

2. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Dir. Tomas Alfredson

3. The Artist - Dir. Michel Hazanavicius

4. The Tree of Life - Dir. Terrence Malick

5. Midnight in Paris - Dir. Woody Allen

6. Shame - Dir. Steve McQueen

7. Melancholia - DIr. Lars Von Trier

8. Beginners - Dir. Mike Mills

9. Meek's Cutoff - Dir. Kelly Reichardt

10. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - Dir. Brad Bird

11. Hanna - Dir. Joe Wright

12. Take Shelter - Dir. Jeff Nichols

13. Attack the Block - Dir. Joe Cornish

14. Weekend - Dir. Andrew Haigh

15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - DIr. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

16. The Turin Horse - Dir. Bela Tarr

17. Martha Marcy May Marlene - Dir. Sean Durkin

18. The Kid with a Bike - Dir. The Dardenne Brothers

19. A Separation - Dir. Asghar Farhadi

20. Contagion - Dir. Steven Soderbergh

21. The Muppets - Dir. James Bobin

22. The Skin I Live In - Dir. Pedro Almodovar

23. Margin Call - Dir. J.C. Chandor

24. Le Havre - Dir. Aki Kaurismaki

25. Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, X-Men: First Class (tie)

Top 10 Documentaries of 2011

1. Bill Cunningham New York - Dir. Richard Press

2. Project Nim - Dir. James Marsh

3. The Interrupters - Dir. Steve James

4. Senna - Dir. Asif Kapadia

5. Tabloid - Dir. Errol Morris

6. The Arbor - Dir. Clio Barnard

7. Bobby Fischer Against the World - Dir. Liz Garbus

8. Nostalgia for the Light - Dir. Patricio Guzman

9. Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Dir. Werner Herzog

10. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey - Dir. Constance Marks

Best Animated Films of 2011

1. Rango - Dir. Gore Verbinski

2. A Cat in Paris - DIrs. Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol

3. The Adventures of Tintin - Dir. Steven Spielberg