{"id":13645,"date":"2011-12-01T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13645"},"modified":"2011-12-01T18:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:49:30","slug":"sight-and-sound-best-films-of-2011-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sight-and-sound-best-films-of-2011-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Sight and Sound\u2019s Top Films of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year’s Sight and Sound poll has been topped by Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The UK film magazine polled around 100 critics and – as usual – the list has surfaced on various<\/a> websites<\/a> before the official one<\/a>, even though\u00a0they have confirmed the top two films on their Twitter feed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Most of you guessed right: our film of 2011 is The Tree of Life (by a country mile)”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which begs the question, why has this film got the reputation of being critically divisive?<\/p>\n

Whilst a minority booed at the Cannes press screening<\/a> and it presumably baffled some audiences<\/a>, if you look at the filtered critical consensus there is a lot of love for Malick’s opus: 85\/100 on Metacritic<\/a>, 84% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, 79\/100 on Movie Review Intelligence<\/a> and 7.3\/10 on IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As is often the case, there is a good spread of European auteur\u00a0royalty amongst the list (Von Trier, Dardennes and Tarr), which makes it read a bit like Thierry Fr\u00e9maux<\/a>‘s contacts book, but its good to see Michel Hazanavicius, Tomas Alfredson and Asghar Farhadi\u00a0join the club with films of real distinction and class.<\/p>\n

1. The Tree of Life<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Terrence Malick).<\/p>\n

2. A Separation<\/strong> (Dir. Asghar Farhadi).<\/p>\n

3. The Kid With a Bike<\/strong> (Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne).<\/p>\n

4. Melancholia<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Lars von Trier).<\/p>\n

5. The Artist<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Michel Hazanavicius).<\/p>\n

=6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia<\/strong> (Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan).<\/p>\n

=6. The Turin Horse<\/strong> (Dir. B\u00e9la Tarr)<\/p>\n

8. We Need to Talk About Kevin<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Lynne Ramsay).<\/p>\n

9. Le Quattro Volte<\/strong> (Dir. Michelangelo Frammartino).<\/p>\n

=10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Tomas Alfredson).<\/p>\n

=10. This Is Not a Film<\/strong> (Dir. Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmashb)<\/p>\n

>\u00a0Sight and Sound<\/a>\u00a0(follow them on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or connect on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>)
\n>\u00a0Wikipedia on 2011 in film<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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