The 10 best movies of 2011

From young love to a documentary on capital punishment, here are the 10 movies that wowed Monitor film critic Peter Rainer at the multiplex this year

7. 'Win Win'

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You might think you’ve seen your share of movies starring Paul Giamatti as a shlubby malcontent. The marvel, though, is that, each time out, he reinvents the wheel. Here he plays a good man whose moral lapses leads him down a dubious byway. After “The Descendants,” this Tom McCarthy-directed drama is the year’s best funny-sad movie.

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