Don’t Think couldn’t be a more appropriate title for The Chemical Brothers’ debut concert film, a mind-bending trip
The Artist – a (mostly) silent film set during the dawn of the sound era in Hollywood – took the 2011 awards season by storm
Bleak and draining, without much in the way of hope, Steve McQueen’s Shame is a powerful film but not an easy one to watch
Hugo, which is set in 1930s Paris, has been endlessly referred to as director Martin Scorsese’s “love letter to the movies”
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher has taken familiar material and managed to churn out something fresh and exciting
With A Separation, writer-director Farhadi has instantly established himself as one of the leading voices in Iranian cinema
Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is a real surprise, one of the best baseball movies ever made and certainly one of the most realistic
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is perfect family-oriented entertainment that recalls Spielberg’s Indiana Jones films.
Perfect Halloweentime viewing: Oldřich Lipský’s hilarious horror parody
Contagion is one of the scariest films of 2011 – germaphobes watch at their own risk
Midnight in Paris is a shade of Woody Allen that we haven’t seen since 1985’s The Purple Rose of Cairo
The stars aligned for Drive, which features a dynamite cast, wonderful cinematography and set design, note-perfect music
Menzel followed his Oscar win with Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer), a lightly comic tale based on the novel by Vladislav Vančura
The Tree of Life is director Terrence Malick’s most ambitious and challenging film to date; and quite possibly his very best
Melancholia is not for everyone; sly, brooding, slow-paced, and pretentious to a fault, it’s not going to win the director any converts
Pouta (Walking Too Fast) deservedly swept the 2011 Czech Lion Awards: it’s one of the best Czech films of the last 20 years
The King’s Speech is a great story, and like many great stories, it’s (mostly) true; Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are both excellent in their roles
Gore Verbinski’s Rango is a gloriously strange trip, and a rare studio animated film that reflects a true vision
David O. Russell’s The Fighter ranks as one of the best boxing movies ever made, right up there with Rocky and Raging Bull.
London Boulevard is a striking, pulpy pop-culture amalgamation of British gangster movie clichés
The Red Shoes meets Repulsion in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a riveting piece of psychological ballet horror
A classic romantic comedy of the lightly screwball variety, Kristián is one of the best-remembered and most beloved Czech films of its period
Mike Leigh lends a steady hand and a careful eye and ear to Another Year, a tone-perfect, life-affirming film that ranks among his best work
TRON: Legacy is mesmerizing as as a two-hour music Daft Punk music video, a triumph of art design that’s fully captivating on style alone