On today’s episode of Sounds of Cinema I counted down my picks of the best and worst films of the past year:
Best:
1. Margin Call
2. Shame
3. The Artist
4. Melancholia
5. Hanna
6. A Better Life
7. Page One: Inside the New York Times
8. 50/50
9. Hugo
10. Warrior
Worst:
- Jack and Jill
- Your Highness
- The Hangover Part II
- Priest
- Sleeping Beauty
- Bad Teacher
- Road to Nowhere
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins
- 30 Minutes or Less
- Sucker Punch
You can find more information, including rationales for each film and lists of honorable mentions and cinematic trends of 2011, here.
And lastly, here is a clip from Hardball with Chris Matthews in which the host interviews Margin Call director J.C. Chandor and actor Kevin Spacey about their film.