Thursday, June 2, 2011

Best Films of 2010 (yeah yeah, deduct two letter grades for being a half-year late)

I suppose this is more for my own OCD-like need to list everything than for anyone else's benefit, being that it's June already. I'm still behind on some of 2010's more lauded films, but here's my best of 2010 list ... belatedly, pointlessly.

BEST
1. The Social Network
I hate to admit it, but "the facebook movie" lived up to the hype, and then some. I'll follow director David Fincher anywhere ('cept Benjamin Button, it sucked). And Sorkin's talky script is sharp and doesn't insult its audience. Too bad Hollywood only makes a few films for adults every year ... look how good they can be. Jesse Eisenberg is terrific as the socially-inept and bitter Zuckerberg, building an empire out of spite.

2. Black Swan
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Toy Story 3
5. Blue Valentine
6. The Fighter
7. True Grit
8. Inception
9. Greenberg
10. The King's Speech (I'm not big on costume-drama Oscar bait, so I put this one off for a bit. For shame, for shame. This was pretty damn good, thanks to a witty script. I still have a hard time emphasizing with royalty. Seriously, they can all burn.)
11. Winter's Bone
12. Kick-Ass
13. The Town

GOOD
Shutter Island
The Killer Inside Me
Cyrus


JUST ABOVE AVERAGE
The Other Guys
Machete
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World


MEH
Iron Man 2
Hot Tub Time Machine

STILL HAVEN'T SEEN
The Kids Are All Right (I'll probably never see this, don't care.) 
Dogtooth
A Prophet

Carlos
Mother
Rabbit Hole
Inside Job
Antichrist

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