Other Big Thumbs Up of 2011

13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill)
Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)
Boy Wonder (Michael Morrissey)
Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Craig McCall)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
Everything Must Go (Dan Rush)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (Martin Scorsese)
Hanna (Joe Wright)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates)
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh)
Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Limitless (Neil Burger)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Rampart (Oren Moverman)
Reagan (Eugene Jarecki)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt)
Stake Land (Jim Mickle)
Source Code (Duncan Jones)
Super 8 (J.J. Abrams)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
The Adventures of Tintin (Steven Spielberg)
The Beaver (Jodie Foster)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh)
The Help (Tate Taylor)
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
The Last Rites of Joe May (Joe Maggio)
The Painting (2011, Jean-François Laguionie)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
These Amazing Shadows (Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton)
Trust (David Schwimmer)
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine)
Warrior (Gavin O'Connor)
Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Winnie the Pooh (Stephen J. Anderson & Don Hall)
X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)