Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1A Separation (2011)A Separation (2011) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Feb 2011Asghar Farhadi makes a domestic dispute keep changing what responsibility means as other people's circumstances become visible. The ensemble gives every apparently clear explanation an emotional cost. Its extraordinary dramatic construction earns the first place because social class, care and truth…0
  2. 2The Tree of Life (2011)The Tree of Life (2011) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 17 May 2011Terrence Malick lets a remembered childhood expand into a question about the place of an individual life inside an immense world. Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain give the family images a physical emotional anchor. Its ambitious form rewards viewers willing to follow association, sound and movement…0
  3. 3Melancholia (2011)Melancholia (2011) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Mar 2011Kirsten Dunst makes the apparent failure to perform happiness at a wedding increasingly difficult to separate from another kind of perception. Lars von Trier gives depression a spectacular cosmic scale. The result is demanding, often abrasive viewing, with its strongest images making private…0
  4. 4Drive (2011)Drive (2011) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Sept 2011Nicolas Winding Refn makes pauses, glances and night-time movement give a familiar criminal predicament a distinctive rhythm. Ryan Gosling's stillness becomes compelling because it can change meaning so abruptly. The elegant surface contains sudden brutal violence, with the film's most persuasive…0
  5. 5The Artist (2011)The Artist (2011) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Oct 2011Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo make gestures readable without turning every emotion into exaggerated pantomime. Michel Hazanavicius uses silent-film form as a practical romantic-comic language. Its pleasure comes from control of movement, framing and musical timing rather than recognition of…0
  6. 6Hugo (2011)Hugo (2011) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Nov 2011Martin Scorsese makes the station's machinery an inviting environment for a child's practical curiosity. Asa Butterfield and the ensemble give the film-history celebration a clear emotional route. The 3D design is especially rewarding where depth becomes a means of exploring crafted objects and the…0
  7. 7The Kid with a Bike (2011)The Kid with a Bike (2011) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased 18 May 2011Thomas Doret's determined movement gives the child's need for attachment a physical urgency. The Dardennes keep a bicycle, a journey and an offered gesture of care dramatically specific. The film's generosity earns its force because trust remains something difficult to practise rather than an…0
  8. 8Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Sept 2011Nuri Bilge Ceylan lets a night-time search reveal the participants through practical conversation, fatigue and apparently minor distractions. The landscape makes the work both routine and strangely vast. Its deliberate pace is rewarding because the inquiry gradually becomes larger than the…0
  9. 9The Skin I Live In (2011)The Skin I Live In (2011) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Aug 2011Pedro Almodóvar makes the controlled house and laboratory disturbingly elegant spaces for a story about power over another person's body. Antonio Banderas's composure sharpens that unease. This is severe adult material with sexual violence, best approached without explanations of its changing…0
  10. 10Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 7.0/10 on IMDbReleased 16 Sept 2011Gary Oldman makes withheld reaction an unusually expressive form of professional attention. Tomas Alfredson gives offices, files and silent observation a dense practical texture. The intricate espionage plot rewards concentration, with the lasting pleasure lying in how betrayal changes the meaning…0