Best Films of 2011!

A major hobby of mine is watching movies -- from brainless Hollywood comedy to artsy independent film, I love them all. Well, maybe I don't LOVE them all, but I do give them all a chance, at least. ;-) (For those of you curious about my reviews/ratings for movies, see my Miso account).

Every year I eagerly anticipate the release of the critics' top ten picks of the previous year. Better still, Metacritic.com publishes these lists together, and I go a step further; I compile all those lists into an UBER-list, and rank the movies by the number of lists each one appears on. (Metacritic itself does something similar, but stops after the first 20 or so...)

Granted, each year there's a lot of bloated, overhyped movies of mediocrity to sift through (I'm looking at you, "The Aviator"!), but in these same lists you can find little-sung gems like "Sunshine Cleaning" and "A Home at the End of the World". This year, I vehemently disagree with the #1 spot -- "Tree of Life" has many good parts that deserve to be in a much better movie. Preferably one WITHOUT random sequences featuring morose dinosaurs. (WTF? Exactly.)

Anyhoo, I always try and see as many as possible, especially as they become available to rent. Which lovely surprises lay in store? We shall see! Below is the list, for your viewing pleasure:

Rank	Movie Title	Votes
1	The Tree of Life	75
2	A Separation	44
3	Drive	44
4	The Artist	43
5	The Descendants	43
6	Hugo	40
7	Melancholia	38
8	Take Shelter	38
9	Moneyball	35
10	Certified Copy	32
11	Martha Marcy May Marlene	29
12	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy	29
13	Shame	27
14	Beginners	26
15	Margaret	26
16	Meek's Cutoff	26
17	The Skin I Live In	23
18	Bridesmaids	21
19	We Need to Talk About Kevin	20
20	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	19
21	Midnight in Paris	17
22	Poetry	17
23	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	16
24	Weekend	16
25	A Dangerous Method	15
26	Mysteries of Lisbon	15
27	The Interrupters	15
28	Margin Call	14
29	Young Adult	14
30	War Horse	13
31	Attack the Block	12
32	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2	12
33	Nostalgia for the Light	12
34	Bellflower	11
35	Le Havre	11
36	Le Quattro Volte	11
37	Of Gods and Men	11
38	The Arbor	11
39	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	11
40	50/50	10
41	Cave of Forgotten Dreams	10
42	Rango	10
43	The Trip	10
44	Win Win	10
45	Contagion	9
46	Super 8	9
47	The Future	9
48	Tuesday, After Christmas	8
49	Warrior	8
50	A Brighter Summer Day	7
51	Incendies	7
52	Like Crazy	7
53	Senna	7
54	The Help	7
55	13 Assassins	6
56	Project Nim	6
57	Submarine	6
58	The Adventures of Tintin	6
59	The Muppets	6
60	Another Earth	5
61	City of Life and Death	5
62	Film Socialisme	5
63	Pina	5
64	Bill Cunningham New York	4
65	Buck	4
66	Cold Weather	4
67	Coriolanus	4
68	Hanna	4
69	Into the Abyss	4
70	J. Edgar	4
71	Jane Eyre	4
72	Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol	4
73	Putty Hill	4
74	Tabloid	4
75	The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu	4
76	The Mill and the Cross	4
77	Another Year	3
78	Aurora	3
79	Carnage	3
80	Crazy, Stupid, Love	3
81	El Sicario, Room 164	3
82	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	3
83	In the Family	3
84	Kill List	3
85	My Joy	3
86	Terri	3
87	The Clock	3
88	The Guard	3
89	The Illusionist	3
90	The Last Circus	3
91	To Die Like a Man	3
92	Tomboy	3
93	We Were Here	3
94	Wuthering Heights	3
95	A Better Life	2
96	Alps	2
97	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey	2
98	Black Swan	2
99	Blue Valentine	2
100	Captain America: The First Avenger	2
101	Cedar Rapids	2
102	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame	2
103	Extraordinary Stories	2
104	General Orders No. 9	2
105	Hell and Back Again	2
106	Higher Ground	2
107	How to Die in Oregon	2
108	I Saw the Devil	2
109	Leap Year	2
110	Love Exposure	2
111	My Week With Marilyn	2
112	Petition	2
113	Rampart	2
114	Seeking the Monkey King	2
115	Source Code	2
116	Sucker Punch	2
117	The Adjustment Bureau	2
118	The Kid With A Bike	2
119	The King's Speech	2
120	The Time That Remains	2
121	True Grit	2
122	Tyrannosaur	2
123	Winnie the Pooh	2
124	X-Men: First Class	2
125	3	1
126	50	1
127	A Screaming Man	1
128	A Useful Life	1
129	Abracadabra	1
130	Agrarian Utopia	1
131	Amigo	1
132	And Everything Is Going Fine	1
133	Animal Kingdom	1
134	Anonymous	1
135	Archipelago	1
136	Assassins	1
137	Beautiful Boy	1
138	Biutiful	1
139	Café de Flore	1
140	Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer	1
141	Crime After Crime	1
142	Damsels in Distress	1
143	Dogtooth	1
144	Elena	1
145	Elite Squad: The Enemy Within	1
146	Fast Five	1
147	Final Destination 5	1
148	Foreign Parts	1
149	Four Lions	1
150	Fright Night	1
151	Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life	1
152	Goodbye, First Love	1
153	Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench	1
154	Historias extraordinarias	1
155	Hobo With A Shotgun	1
156	Kaboom	1
157	Kinyarwanda	1
158	Knuckle	1
159	La Pivellina	1
160	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen	1
161	Limitless	1
162	Love Crime	1
163	Mildred Pierce	1
164	Miss Bala	1
165	My Perestroika	1
166	No Strings Attached	1
167	On the Bowery	1
168	One Day	1
169	Oslo August 31st	1
170	Pariah	1
171	Pink Ribbons, Inc.	1
172	Polytechnique	1
173	Position Among the Stars	1
174	Psychohydrography	1
175	Redland	1
176	Rejoice and Shout	1
177	Road to Nowhere	1
178	Roadie	1
179	Secret Sunshine	1
180	Silver Bullets	1
181	Take This Waltz	1
182	Target	1
183	The Deep Blue Sea	1
184	The Double Hour	1
185	The Elephant in the Living Room	1
186	The Green Hornet	1
187	The Ides of March	1
188	The Inheritors	1
189	The Iron Lady	1
190	The Last Lions	1
191	The Mouth of the Wolf	1
192	The Myth of the American Sleepover	1
193	The Princess of Montpensier	1
194	The Return	1
195	The Strange Case of Angelica	1
196	The Three Musketeers	1
197	The Whistleblower	1
198	The Wise Kids	1
199	This Is Not a Film	1
200	Trollhunter	1
201	Tucker & Dale vs. Evil	1
202	United Red Army	1
203	Vengeance	1
204	Viva Riva!	1
205	Voluptuous Sleep	1
206	We Bought a Zoo	1
207	Wiebo's War	1
208	Wrinkles	1
209	You All Are Captains	1

Which ones of these have you seen? Do you have any recommendations? I'm all ears! :-)