Film 2011

I might have seen fewer films in 2011 than in any year in recent memory, and so assembling this list was a little trickier than I'd anticipated. That says more, I suspect, about how I've been spending my time lately than about the quality of this year's releases. There's always no shortage of films I regret having missed by the end of December, but it's a particularly long list this time around: Margin Call, A Separation, Meek's Cutoff, Super, The Tree of Life, Certified Copy, Melancholia, The Skin I Live In, and The Future, with many others no doubt having slipped my mind.

Before I start, the rule I set for myself was this: the films below had to be released straight to video, video on demand, or theatrically in Portland in 2011, which is why a couple of 2010 films with delayed releases ended up making the list. Anyway, here it is:

10. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

09. Source Code

08. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

07. Somewhere

06. Win Win

05. Martha Marcy May Marlene

04. Bridesmaids

03. Blue Valentine

02. Drive

01. Hanna