After some disappointing years I must say 2010 has been mostly tremendous. Most of the widely heralded movies rang pretty empty for me--I'm looking at you The Social Network, Black Swan, Winter's Bone, etc--but once I dug deeper into the year I found some great works. So, without commentary here is my current top 10:
1. 127 Hours
2. Sweetgrass
3. True Grit
4. Catfish
5. Mother and Child
6. Shutter Island
7. A Prophet
8. Inception
9. Splice
10. Let Me In
And the rest (in order, more or less)...
The American
From Paris with Love
The Social Network
The Kids Are Alright
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Trash Humpers
Salt
Restrepo
The Crazies
The Tillman Story
The Fighter
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Buried
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Dogtooth
Kick-Ass
The Other Guys
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Ondine
The Runaways
The Town
The Lottery
Winter's Bone
Secretariat
The Ghost Writer
Centurion
The Romantics
Extraordinary Measures
Machete
The Book of Eli
Please Give
I'm Still Here
Black Swan
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Robin Hood
Knight and Day
She's Out of My League
I Am Love
Dear John
Blue Valentine
The Expendables
Frozen
Green Zone
The Killer Inside Me
You Don't Know Jack
The King's Speech
Edge of Darkness
Teenage Paparazzo
Alice in Wonderland
Cyrus
Jonah Hex
Iron Man 2
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Harry Brown
Repo Men
The Last Exorcism
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Brookyln's Finest
Clash of the Titans
Cop Out
Get Him to the Greek
Greenberg
The Special Relationship
Date Night
The Karate Kid
