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Best Movies of 2011, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
75 films from 2011 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Intouchables ('2011), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Intouchables, 8.5 on IMDb against 57 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Intouchables '2011 | Drama / Comedy | 8.5 | 75% | 57 | 8.3 | Éric Toledano |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 '2011 | Fantasy | 8.1 | 96% | 85 | 8.1 | David Yates |
| 3 | Warrior '2011 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | 84% | 71 | 7.8 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 4 | The Help '2011 | Drama | 8.1 | 75% | 62 | 8.2 | Tate Taylor |
| 5 | Drive '2011 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.8 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 6 | X-Men: First Class '2011 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 86% | 65 | 7.3 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 7 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2011 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 86% | 71 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 8 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes '2011 | Thriller / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.4 | Rupert Wyatt |
| 9 | Moneyball '2011 | Drama | 7.6 | 94% | 87 | 7.3 | Bennett Miller |
| 10 | Midnight in Paris '2011 | Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 93% | 81 | 7.5 | Woody Allen |
| 11 | The Artist '2011 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.4 | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 12 | Source Code '2011 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.5 | 92% | 74 | 7.3 | Duncan Jones |
| 13 | 50/50 '2011 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 93% | 72 | 7.2 | Jonathan Levine |
| 14 | Limitless '2011 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.2 | Neil Burger |
| 15 | Crazy, Stupid, Love. '2011 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 79% | 68 | 7.3 | Glenn Ficarra |
| 16 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol '2011 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 73 | 7.1 | Brad Bird |
| 17 | Hugo '2011 | Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 83 | 7.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 18 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows '2011 | Action / Mystery | 7.4 | 60% | 48 | 7.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 19 | The Skin I Live In '2011 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 81% | 70 | 7.5 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 20 | Fast Five '2011 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 77% | 66 | 7.2 | Justin Lin |
| 21 | Kung Fu Panda 2 '2011 | Animation / Comedy / Action | 7.3 | 82% | 67 | 7.1 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
| 22 | Rango '2011 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.3 | 88% | 75 | 6.9 | Gore Verbinski |
| 23 | The Lincoln Lawyer '2011 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 83% | 63 | 7.2 | Brad Furman |
| 24 | The Descendants '2011 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 87% | 84 | 6.8 | Alexander Payne |
| 25 | The Adventures of Tintin '2011 | Animation / Mystery | 7.3 | 75% | 68 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 26 | We Need to Talk About Kevin '2011 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 74% | 68 | 7.5 | Lynne Ramsay |
| 27 | Shame '2011 | Drama | 7.2 | 79% | 72 | 6.9 | Steve McQueen |
| 28 | Real Steel '2011 | Action / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.1 | 60% | 56 | 7.2 | Shawn Levy |
| 29 | Thor '2011 | Fantasy / Action | 7.0 | 77% | 57 | 6.8 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 30 | War Horse '2011 | War / Drama | 7.2 | 74% | 72 | 7.3 | Steven Spielberg |
| 31 | Melancholia '2011 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 80% | 81 | 7.1 | Lars von Trier |
| 32 | Super 8 '2011 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 81% | 72 | 6.8 | J.J. Abrams |
| 33 | The Adjustment Bureau '2011 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Romance | 7.0 | 71% | 60 | 6.8 | George Nolfi |
| 34 | Carnage '2011 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 71% | 61 | 7.2 | Roman Polanski |
| 35 | Captain America: The First Avenger '2011 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 80% | 66 | 7.0 | Joe Johnston |
| 36 | One Day '2011 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 36% | 48 | 7.4 | Lone Scherfig |
| 37 | Horrible Bosses '2011 | Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | 69% | 57 | 6.6 | Seth Gordon |
| 38 | Paul '2011 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 70% | 57 | 6.8 | Greg Mottola |
| 39 | Rio '2011 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | 72% | 63 | 6.8 | Carlos Saldanha |
| 40 | Insidious '2011 | Horror / Thriller | 6.8 | 66% | 52 | 7.0 | James Wan |
| 41 | Contagion '2011 | Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 85% | 70 | 6.7 | Steven Soderbergh |
| 42 | Bridesmaids '2011 | Comedy / Romance | 6.8 | 89% | 75 | 6.5 | Paul Feig |
| 43 | Unknown '2011 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 56% | 56 | 6.7 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 44 | The Tree of Life '2011 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 86% | 85 | 6.7 | Terrence Malick |
| 45 | Return '2011 | Drama | 6.1 | 83% | 63 | 6.4 | Liza Johnson |
| 46 | Hanna '2011 | Action / Thriller | 6.7 | 71% | 65 | 6.6 | Joe Wright |
| 47 | In Time '2011 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | 35% | 53 | 7.0 | Andrew Niccol |
| 48 | Puss in Boots '2011 | Action / Animation / Comedy | 6.6 | 85% | 65 | 6.6 | Chris Miller |
| 49 | The Mechanic '2011 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.5 | 54% | 49 | 6.5 | Simon West |
| 50 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides '2011 | Action / Fantasy | 6.6 | 32% | 45 | 6.6 | Rob Marshall |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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