Oklahoma Film Critics Circle

Michael Smith’s Best 10 films of 2011

After seeing about 200 movies in 2011, I decided that there was no definitively great movie of 2011. I can’t imagine people talking about any of these movies in 20 years as having been “all-time classics.”

If last year’s “The Social Network,” “Winter’s Bone,” “Black Swan,” “True Grit” or “Inception” had been released this year, any one of them would have topped the list for this year.

That said, I felt as though 2011 was a year in which many genre films - in categories including comic-book and science-fiction - were better than in the past. A couple were even pretty great.

The result is a 10-best list for 2011 that is, as always, something more like my 10 favorites for the year.

Click here for the list …