Tree of Life tops Sight & Sound 2011 Critics’ Poll

In a few days Sight & Sound will announce online the full results of its annual critics’ poll, but the poll issue is on news stands this week so we already know the top 11 films thanks to Guy Lodge at In Contention

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3. The Kid With a Bike (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
5. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

– 6. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
– 6. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
8. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
9. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
– 10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
– 10. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmash)

Looking back at the S&S poll, the past couple of years

2010
1. The Social Network (David Fincher)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
4. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
5. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
– 6. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
– 6. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
– 8. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
– 8. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
– 8. Nostalgia for the Light” (Patricio Guzman)
– 8. Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
– 8. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)

2009
1. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard,)
2. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
2. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
4. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
5. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
– 6. Up (Pete Docter)
– 6. White Material (Claire Denis)
– 8. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
– 8. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
10. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)