Mike's 2011 Movie List

I went ahead and eliminated from my list any movies I ranked in previous years. My list really surprised me this year with lots of movies that are on a lot of critics’ top 10 didn’t make my top 20.

1 Drive
2 Warrior
3 A Boy and His Samurai
4 Melancholia
5 Juan of the Dead
6 Enemy at the Dead End
7 Shame
8 I Saw the Devil
9 Bullhead
10 Kill List
11 We Need to Talk About Kevin
12 Kumare
13 Klovn (Clown)
14 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
15 Buck
16 A Seperation
17 Sleep Tight
18 50/50
19 Hanna
20 Bellflower
21 The Tree of Life
22 Midnight in Paris
23 Super
24 Hugo
25 The Skin I Live In
26 The Innkeepers
27 Attack the Block
28 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
29 The FP
30 Rise of the Plane of the Apes
31 Project Nim
32 Being Elmo: A Puppeterers Journey
33 Take Shelter
34 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
35 Senna
36 Milocrorze: A Love Story
37 Becoming Santa
38 The Artist
39 The Guard
40 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
41 Outrage
42 Contagion
43 X-men First Class
44 You Said What?
45 The Descendants
46 Little Tin Soldier
47 Septien
48 Extraterrestrial
49 Shaolin
50 The Muppets
51 Knuckle
52 Hesher
53 Invasion of Alien Bikini
54 Everything Must Go
55 Bag of hammers
56 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
57 Bobby Fischer Against the World
58 Comin' At Ya! 3D
59 Viva Riva!
60 Let the Bullets Fly
61 Cedar Rapids
62 Trollhunter
63 Boys on the Run
64 Life In a Day
65 Monga
66 Stool Pigeon
67 Paranormal Activity 3
68 Natural Selection
69 Human Centipde II (Full Sequence)
70 Captain America
71 The Beaver
72 Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
73 Adventures of TinTin
74 New Kids Turbo
75 Bad Teacher
76 A Lonely Place to Die
77 Smuggler
78 Sennentutschi: Curse of the Alps
79 The Captains
80 The Other F Word
81 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
82 The Perfect Host
83 The Day
84 Superheroes
85 Little deaths
86 Wuss
87 Blackthorn
88 Livid
89 Haunters
90 The Woman
91 Karate Robo Zaborgar
92 True Legend
93 Amigo
94 Blank City
95 Julia's Eyes
96 CityDark
97 I Melt With You
98 The Special Relationship
99 Sound Of It
100 Saigon Electric
101 Bad Fever
102 Julia X 3D
103 Cowboys & Aliens
104 Ironclad
105 Bridesmaids
106 Sucker Punch
107 The Squad
108 Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
109 Beyond the Black Rainbow
110 General Orders No. 9

Eric's 2011 Movie List

Overall a really good year for flicks. The only movie I really loved was The Artist, but there are plenty that are aaaaallllmost to that level. I'm also either realizing a heavy festival viewing bias on my part or SXSW and AFF are really that good. Nine of my top ten movies I saw at one of those festivals. As we state every year, these are not necessarily the best movies of the year, just the ones that we most enjoyed.

1 The Artist
2 The Tree of Life
3 The Arbor
4 Shame
5 Hesher
6 Drive
7 Memphis Heat: The True Story of Memphis Wrasslin'
8 Senna
9 Martha Marcy May Marlene
10 Take Shelter
11 Haevnen (In a Better World)
12 Like Crazy
13 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
14 Midnight in Paris
15 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
16 Becoming Santa
17 Des hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men)
18 A Separation
19 Jane Eyre
20 The Help
21 A Dangerous Method
22 The Muppets
23 50/50
24 The Interrupters
25 An Ordinary Family
26 Bill Cunningham New York
27 The Debt
28 Everything Must Go
29 Exporting Raymond
30 The Trip
31 Incendiary: The Willingham Case
32 Albert Nobbs
33 Moneyball
34 J. Edgar
35 Young Adult
36 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
37 Project Nim
38 The Descendants
39 Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
40 Meek's Cutoff
41 Buck
42 Page One: Inside the New York Times
43 American: The Bill Hicks Story
44 Sal
45 Win Win
46 Freak Dance
47 Armadillo
48 No Matter What
49 Our Idiot Brother
50 Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story
51 Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
52 Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters
53 Wuss
54 Hugo
55 Beginners
56 Cedar Rapids
57 The Woman in the Fifth
58 Copie Conforme (Certified Copy)
59 Bridesmaids
60 My Week with Marilyn
61 Super 8
62 Margin Call
63 Melancholia
64 The Conspirator
65 Crazy, Stupid, Love
66 Five Time Champion
67 Jeff Who Lives at Home
68 LBF
69 Another Earth
70 Source Code
71 Austin High
72 Where Soldiers Come From
73 The Catechism Cataclysm
74 A Bag of Hammers
75 The Skin I Live In
76 Life in a Day
77 I Melt With You
78 Searching For Sonny
79 Fuck My Life (Que pena tu vida)
80 Happythankyoumoreplease
81 The Stand Up
82 Attack the Block
83 Silver Bullets
84 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
85 Little Deaths
86 6 Month Rule
87 The Future
88 General Orders No. 9
89 Natural Selection
90 Main Street