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Last week, we rolled out our Most Redeeming Movies of 2011.
This week, it's our annual Critics' Choice Awards, recognizing those films our critics believe were the best movies of the year as movies, whether they carried a redeeming message or not. Five of our choices also appear on our Most Redeeming list, and five were also nominated for Oscars for Best Picture. We also pay more attention to small indie films than the Academy generally does—thus our inclusion of films like Win Win, Of Gods and Men, Drive, and The Mill & The Cross.
Drum roll, please: Presenting the CT Critics' Choice Awards for 2011.
Directed by Terrence Malick
(Fox Searchlight) | PG-13
2. The Artist
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
(The Weinstein Company) | PG-13
3. Win Win
Directed by Thomas McCarthy
(Fox Searchlight) | R
4. Hugo
Directed by Martin Scorsese
(Paramount Pictures) | PG
Directed by Xavier Beauvois
(Sony Pictures Classics) | PG-13
6. Moneyball
Directed by Bennett Miller
(Columbia Pictures) | PG-13
7. Drive
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
(FilmDistrict) | R
Directed by Woody Allen
(Sony Pictures Classics) | PG-13
9. Super 8
Directed by J. J. Abrams
(Paramount Pictures) | PG-13
Directed by Lech Majewski
(Kino Lorber) | Not rated
Honorable Mentions: (in alphabetical order)
The Descendants, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, The Muppets, Take Shelter, War Horse, The Way
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