2011 Best Reviewed Movies (Page #2)

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

Drive

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 271 reviews

A nameless Hollywood stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in his car.

Adventure

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Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 252 reviews

This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization's name. No help, no contact, off the grid.

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Hugo

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 232 reviews

An orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man.

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Midnight in Paris

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 224 reviews

The story centers on a family traveling to Paris for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

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50/50

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 200 reviews

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

Biography

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Senna

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 122 reviews

Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, Senna unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favor of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and previously unseen.

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Of Gods and Men

93% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 120 reviews

Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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Source Code

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 263 reviews

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the “Source Code,” a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack.

Sci-Fi

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Arthur Christmas

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 169 reviews

This Christmas movie highlights the technological advances of operations at the North Pole, revealing how Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, every operation has a margin of error… When one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed "acceptable" to all but one, Arthur. Arthur Claus is Santa’s misfit son who executes an unauthorized rookie mission to get the last present half way around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

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Take Shelter

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews

Chronicles a man's descent into madness. He fears an apocalyptic cloud he believes will engulf his town, and builds a storm shelter in his yard.

Drama

New York / Los Angeles

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Incendies

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 123 reviews

Twins journey to the Middle East to unearth their family tree.

Drama

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Tabloid

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 121 reviews

The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.

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Into the Abyss

92% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 116 reviews

An examination of a horrible crime through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry, scheduled to die eight days after his interview.

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