2011 Best Reviewed Movies (Page #3)

Based on third-party critic ratings, the best reviewed 2011 movie releases.

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Corman's World's: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

Corman's World's: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 51 reviews

This documentary chronicles how Hollywood writer-director producer Roger Corman created his cult film empire, one low-budget success at a time, capitalizing on undiscovered talent, and pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.

Documentary

Limited

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Point Blank

Point Blank

91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 79 reviews

A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

Crime

Limited

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Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 56 reviews

"This documentary focuses less on the music and more on the personality clashes and in-group tensions to great, compelling effect."

Documentary

New York / Los Angeles

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 46 reviews

After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento is swept into a bloody political dispute involving government officials and paramilitary groups.

Crime

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Crime After Crime

Crime After Crime

91% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

Documentary

New York

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Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids

90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 293 reviews

When Annie (Kristen Wiig), a simple Midwestern girl is asked to be her best friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor, she struggles to please the snobby, rich bridesmaids at every pre-wedding event.

Comedy

Nationwide

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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Martha Marcy May Marlene

90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 211 reviews

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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Attack the Block

Attack the Block

90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 183 reviews

A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.

Comedy

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Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 131 reviews

This all-new hand-drawn animated movie reunites audiences with the philosophical "bear of very little brain" and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Roo—and last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. "Well a tail is either there or it isn’t there," said Pooh. “And yours isn’t… there." Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny.

Family

Nationwide

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Buck

Buck

90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews

A living legend in the horse world, Buck Brannaman was the inspiration for The Horse Whisperer. For this true cowboy, horses are a mirror of the human soul. Reared by an abusive father, Buck eschews violence. By teaching people to communicate with horses through instinct, not punishment, he frees the spirit of the horse and its human comrade. Crisscrossing the world with Zenlike wisdom, Buck promulgates grace in the bond between man and horse.

Documentary

New York / Los Angeles

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Certified Copy

Certified Copy

89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 135 reviews

A gallery owner living in a Tuscan village attends a lecture by a British author on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterwards she invites him on a tour of the countryside during which he is mistaken for her husband.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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The Trip

The Trip

89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 108 reviews

Steve Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Rob Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

Comedy

New York / Los Angeles

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 100 reviews

A dying old man choses to spend his last days with his loved ones in the countryside. The ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him and his long-lost son returns home in a non-human form.

Fantasy

New York

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Armadillo

Armadillo

89% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 54 reviews

In February 2009, documentary filmmaker Janus Metz accompanied a group of Danish soldiers at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from Taliban positions.

Documentary

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Rango

Rango

88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 222 reviews

The story of a chameleon with an identity crisis.

Family

Nationwide

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Submarine

Submarine

88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 156 reviews

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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In Darkness

In Darkness

88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 113 reviews

In Nazi-occupied Poland, a sewer worker and petty thief begin sheltering Jews in underground tunnels for profit.

Drama

Oscar Run

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Carancho

Carancho

88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 48 reviews

This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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