Top Ten Movies | Bridesmaids

1. Bridesmaids. Take away the wedding climax and the set pieces involving food poisoning and slapstick sex, and what you have here is a drama as complex and closely observed as any Mike Leigh film, with Kristen Wiig (coming into her own as an actor and writer after years of being an underused player in comedy movies) unquietly seething as a hard-luck case watching her peers make more money and have better relationships. The fact that Paul Feig’s comedy also happened to be the funniest movie of 2011 just makes it all the more powerful and moving as a testament to how complicated your relationship with your longtime best friend can become.