The 25 Best Movies Of 2011 (So Far)

At the year's halfway point, we applaud 25 flicks that we guarantee are worth a watch.

Not Available Lead
Complex Original

Image via Complex Original

Not Available Lead

From a strictly financial standpoint, movies in 2011 have been defined by unimaginative crap. The year’s two biggest worldwide smashes, The Hangover Part II and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, exemplify all that’s wrong with big studio fare, drying out creative wells with lazy rehashing and generally unnecessary existences outside of instant monetary satisfaction. With two of the year’s worst flicks topping the box office charts, it’d be easy to get discouraged and write off the first half of ’11 as a artistic disappointment.


That is, if there weren’t so many high quality films to choose from on the lower end of the profit spectrum. From legitimate hits to more obscure independent genre entries, the year’s first two quarters have poured a surfeit of commendable pics, making it easy to forget about the Wolfpack’s substantial letdown and Johnny Depp’s continued descent into lameness.


With 2011’s midpoint upon us, and plenty of worthwhile cinema still yet to premiere, we’re taking a look back at the best of what’s been presented thus far; chances are, many of these flicks will be unfamiliar, but that’s a positive—there’s too much under-appreciated goodness out there in theaters for us not to champion the underdogs. But then, of course, we love Michael Fassbender’s Magneto as much as the next popcorn junkie. Check the duality as Complex counts down The 25 Best Movies Of 2011 (So Far).

 

The Lincoln Lawyer

Not Available Interstitial

Kidnapped

Not Available Interstitial

Kill The Irishman

Not Available Interstitial

TrollHunter

Not Available Interstitial

Everything Must Go

Not Available Interstitial

Fast Five

Not Available Interstitial

Super 8

Not Available Interstitial

The Beaver

Not Available Interstitial

Thor

Not Available Interstitial

Stake Land

Not Available Interstitial

Super

Not Available Interstitial

The Tree Of Life

Not Available Interstitial

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

Not Available Interstitial

Hobo With A Shotgun

Not Available Interstitial

13 Assassins

Not Available Interstitial

Rango

Not Available Interstitial

Cedar Rapids

Not Available Interstitial

We Are What We Are

Not Available Interstitial

Bridesmaids

Not Available Interstitial

Black Death

Not Available Interstitial

Midnight In Paris

Not Available Interstitial

I Saw The Devil

Not Available Interstitial

Hanna

Not Available Interstitial

X-Men: First Class

Not Available Interstitial

Insidious

Not Available Interstitial

Latest in Pop Culture