Sight & Sound Best Films of 2011

At the end of 2011 Sight & Sound magazine polled 100 critics and curators before collating the results into a top 10 of the best films of the year. Terence Malick’s experimental epic, The Tree of Life was voted best film, earning one and a half times as many votes as runner up A Separation.

1. The Tree of Life — Terrence Malick
2. A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
3. The Kid with a Bike — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
4. Melancholia — Lars von Trier
5. The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — Nuri Bilge Ceylan
6. The Turin Horse — Béla Tarr
8. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lynne Ramsay
9. Le quattro volte — Michelangelo Frammartino
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — Tomas Alfredson
10. This is Not a Film — Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb