Current BFCA Critics' Choice Ratings

Beth Stevens has been keeping track of the BFCA Critics’ Choice ratings, and we thought it might be interesting to take a mid-year snapshot with a handy chart. On this page you’ll find all the 2011 titles that have earned a 4-star rating. After the cut the list continues with 3-star films. Bear in mind the BFCA ratings have little relationship to their own year-end “Top 10.” Last year, for example, Me and Orson Welles earned a perfect score of 100 (a score it still holds), but was nowhere in sight among the annual BFCA nominees. Strange too, the complete absence of foreign language titles. Have not enough BFCA critics yet seen 13 Assassins or Mysteries of Lisbon? They need to get out more. Incendies does receive a 2011 score of 87 — but since it was already nominated for an Oscar last year I haven’t included it on this chart. So while these numbers might be interesting, let’s take their ultimate awards relevance with a coarsely-ground grain of salt. Unless you really want to believe that The Devil’s Double has more Oscar potential than The Tree of Life.