2011: Overstreet's Favorite Films

2011: Overstreet's Favorite Films May 29, 2012

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2011.

In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

2011


  1. The Tree of Life (reviews)
  2. Pina* (review)
  3. A Separation*
  4. The Mill and the Cross
  5. The Kid With a Bike*
  6. Buck
  7. Martha Marcy May Marlene (review)
  8. Nostalgia for the Light
  9. Tuesday, After Christmas*
  10. War Horse (review)
  11. The Muppets (review)
  12. Film Socialisme*
  13. Hugo
  14. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  15. Take Shelter
  16. Winnie the Pooh
  17. Win Win (review) (interview with Tom McCarthy)
  18. Wrestling for Jesus: The Tale of T-Money
  19. Drive (review)
  20. Le Havre
  21. Attack the Block
  22. Moneyball
  23. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (review)
  24. Margaret
  25. Tyrannosaur*
  • The Trip
  • L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance)*
  • The Deep Blue Sea*
  • A Dangerous Method
  • Rango
  • Midnight in Paris
  • Jane Eyre (review)
  • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
  • Haywire
  • Contagion (review)
  • The Descendants
  • Super 8
  • Higher Ground*
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
  • X-Men: First Class
  • First Position (review)
  • Source Code
  • Bridesmaids*
  • The Adventures of Tintin
As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2011:
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
A Better Life
 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Todd Strauss-Schulson)
Albert Nobbs
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman)
Alpis
Anonymous
Art History (Joe Swanberg)
Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg)
Avalon
Battle: Los Angeles
Bernie
Born to Be Wild
Caitlin Plays Herself (Joe Swanberg)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
Corpo Celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)
Dark Horse
Dolphin Tale
Duo Mingjin
Edwin Parker (Tacita Dean)
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Fast Five
Faust (Alexander Sokurov)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
Good for Nothing
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)
Green Lantern
Hahithalfut
Hall Pass (Bobby and Peter Farrelly)
Happy Feet Two
Hell and Back Again
Himizu
Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon)
Hors Satan (Bruno Dumont)
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
How to Die in Oregon
I Will Follow
In Darkness
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Innocent Saturday (Alexander Mindadze)
Into the Abyss
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
Killer Joe
Kinyarwanda
Like Crazy
Love and Bruises (Lou Ye)
Low Life (Nicolas Klotz)
L’ultimo terrestre
Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
Margin Call
Mars Needs Moms
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
Mildred Pierce
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Monsieur Lazhar
On the Shoulders of Giants
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Page Eight
Page One: Inside The New York Times
Paul (Greg Mottola)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Policeman (Nadav Lapid)
Polisse
Poulet aux prunes
Project Nim
Prom
Puss in Boots
Quando la notte
Real Steel
Ren Shan Ren Hai
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Ricky (Janie Geiser)
Rio
River Rites (Ben Russell)
Saideke Balai
Septien (Michael Tully)
Shame (Steve McQueen)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Silver Bullets (Joe Swanberg)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Kohler)
Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
Source Code (Duncan Jones)
Starbuck
Tao jie
Target (Alexander Zeldovich)
Terraferma
Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
Texas Killing Fields
The Beaver
The Big Year
The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
The First Man
The Flowers of War
The Future
The Future (Miranda July)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The Green Hornet (Michel Gondry)
The Guard
The Hangover Part II
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
The Interrupters
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes)
The Last Mountain
The Last Rites of Joe May
The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman)
The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
The Mechanic (Simon West)
The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
The Smurfs
The Three Musketeers (Paul W.S. Anderson)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
This is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi)
This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino)
Thor
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Michael Bay)
Tyrannosaur
Un été brûlant
Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg)
Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Warrior
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
What’s Your Number?
Where Do We Go Now?
Wild and Weird
Wuthering Heights
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
Zookeeper

Browse Our Archives

Follow Us!