Ben Lyons' Picks! The Best Movies Of 2011

50/50 (Directed by Jonathan Levine)

I told Will Reiser, the writer whose own battle with cancer in his 20's inspired the film, when I interviewed him that the film made me "weep like a teething infant". It's true. I lost it.

While I'm lucky I've never faced anything as serious as cancer, I had some major health issues and scares growing up and this film, thanks largely to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's terrific performance, hit really close to home. And I thought some of the one liners were funny as sh*t...