Best and Worst of 2010
What is it with the proliferation of Ten Best Lists? It is impossible for me to think of only ten movies in the course of a year. Reality is much richer than that. So let’s cut to the chase:
Excellent
Carlos — Olivier Assayas
Mother — Joon-Ho Bong
A Prophet — Jacques Audiard
Secret Sunshine (2007) — Chang Dong Lee.
Poetry — Chang Dong Lee
The Robber — Benjamin Heisenberg
Vincere — Marco Bellocchio
True Grit — Joel and Ethan Coen
Old Cats — Sebastian Silva/Pedro Peirano
Tuesday After Christmas — Radu Muntean
Aurora (especially when they release the shorter version) — Cristi Puiu
Dogtooth — Giorgios Lanthimos
Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work — Ricki Stern/Anne Sundberg
Lebanon — Samuel Maoz
Great
Black Swan — Darren Aronofsky
The Fighter — David O. Russell
Another Year — Mike Leigh
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives — Apitchapong Weeraseethakul
The Social Network — David Fincher
I Love You, Phillip Morris — Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
Four Lions — Chris Morris
Fish Tank — Andrea Arnold
Everyone Else — Maren Ade
Exit Through the Gift Shop — Banksy
Good
The King’s Speech — Tom Hooper
I Am Love — Luca Guadagnino
Agora — Alejandro Amenabar
Iron Man 2 — Jon Favreau
Restrepo — Tim Heatherington/Sebastian Junger
Inside Job — Charles Ferguson
Fair Game — Doug Liman
Client 9 — Alex Gibney
Get Low — Aaron Schneider
Brooklyn’s Finest — Antoine Fuqua
The Town — Ben Affleck
City Island — Raymond De Felitta
The Square — Nash Edgerton
Shrek The Third — Chris Miller/Raman Hui
White Material — Claire Denis
127 Hours — Danny Boyle
Meh
Revolución — 10 Mexican directors
All Good Things — Andrew Jarecki
Casino Jack — George Hickenlooper
Please Give — Nicole Holofcener
Shutter Island — Martin Scorsese
Wasteland — Lucy Walker
Splice — Vincenzo Natali
The Ghost Writer — Roman Polanski
Way Overrated
Winter’s Bone — Debra Granik
Life During Wartime — Todd Solondz
Somewhere — Sophia Coppola
The Kids Are All Right — Lisa Cholodenko
Certified Copy — Abbas Kiarostami
Greenberg — Noah Baumbach
Animal Kingdom — David Michod
Super Bad
Love And Other Drugs — Ed Zwick
Inception — Christopher Nolan
The Tempest — Julie Taymor
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger — Woody Allen
Black Venus — Abdellatif Kechiche
Entre Nos — Gloria La Morte/Paola Mendoza
We Are What We Are/Somos lo que hay — Jorge Michel Grau
Salt — Phillip Noyce
Haven’t Seen Yet
Toy Story 3
Did Not See
Eat Pray Love
Sex and The City 2
Hereafter
