There's nothing this year I'm ridiculously in love with like in recent years past (like No Country for Old Men, The Wrestler, etc.), but this year is incredibly deep. My top 40 or so are all really good and then the following twenty or twenty-five are worth seeing. My top ten is a pretty good cross-section of my taste: quirky comedy, a little violence, some war, toss in some redemption, Tarantino, buttoned-down English people, a good dose of anxiety-ridden foreign fare, an equal dose of anxiety-ridden domestic fare, a couple of old Southern dudes here and there and some post-apocalyptic wandering for good measure. I hope your Netflix bill is paid-up.
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Precious (Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire)
3 Sin Nombre
4 Crazy Heart
5 The Road
6 An Education
7 A Single Man
8 Adventureland
9 That Evening Sun
10 The Hurt Locker
11 Moon
12 (500) Days of Summer
13 A Serious Man
14 Up
15 In the Loop
16 Entre les murs (The Class)
17 Is Anybody There?
18 Up in the Air
19 Goodbye Solo
20 Funny People
21 Downtown Calling
22 Youth in Revolt
23 The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
24 Strongman
25 The Hangover
26 The Brothers Bloom
27 The Cove
28 Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
29 Brothers
30 Sugar
31 Treeless Mountain
32 Humpday
33 Bright Star
34 Best Worst Movie
35 Sons of a Gun
36 The Promised Land - A Swamp Pop Journey
37 Where the Wild Things Are
38 45365
39 Afterschool
40 World's Greatest Dad
41 The Invention of Lying
42 RiP: A Remix Manifesto
43 The Informant!
44 Houston We Have a Problem
45 Me and Orson Welles
46 Big Fan
47 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
48 Food, Inc.
49 The Boys Are Back
50 The Great Buck Howard (2008 #54)
51 The Girlfriend Experience
52 Crips and Bloods: Made in America
53 Breaking Upwards
54 MINE
55 L'heure d'été (Summer Hours)
56 The Messenger
57 Tyson
58 Adam
59 The Way We Get By
60 Severe Clear
61 The Soloist
62 How I Got Lost
63 Brüno
64 Alexander the Last
65 Sunshine Cleaning
66 Crude Independence
67 American Violet
68 Julie & Julia
69 Extract
70 Taking Woodstock
71 Public Enemies
72 Rudo y Cursi
73 My Run
74 Paper Heart
75 Humble Pie (formerly American Fork 2007 #60)
76 Observe and Report
77 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
78 Owl and the Sparrow (2007 #73)
79 Beeswax
80 Bart got a Room
81 Away We Go
82 Tenure
83 Whip It
84 My Suicide
85 Passing Strange
86 Harmony and Me
87 Pocket Full of Soul
88 Thor at the Bus Stop
89 Stoner
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I agree... I wasn't seriously blown away by any of the movies this year. Of course, there are a few big ones I haven't seen yet like Inglorious Basterds and Up in the Air. Harmony and Me deserves a little more love than #86, even if the director was completely pompous live. Great list! Here's my top 10.
1. An Education (loved it)
2. Hurt Locker
3. 500 Days of Summer
4. A Serious Man
5. Precious
6. A Single Man
7. Up
8. Bright Star
9. Torey's Distraction
10. Food Inc.
You go, Kelly! I think they should add your list to the blog. I'm going to see two movies tonight. Precious and Crazy Heart. I'm glad to see they're so far up on your list, Eric! I did see An Education in early December at Fiesta. It was really great. I have Hurt Locker coming soon on netflix, and I streamed Food Inc earlier this week on Netflix. Very disturbing... I watched 500 Days of Summer a couple of weeks ago, and it was pretty good. I wasn't super impressed though. Kelly - I'll have to check out your list. There are some on there that I haven't heard of. I'm hoping to see everyone's top 5 in the next few months.
Kelly doesn't see enough movies. Maybe if she were to attend SXSW film in addition to her yearly Austin Film Festival attendance.... Speaking of SXSW film, the three of us might be ranking 500 Days of Summer so highly due to our viewing circumstance at South By. Movies in a festival setting, at the Paramount, among hundreds of other cinephiles, with the filmmakers in attendance always seem better. What did they call it in college: the halo effect or something like that? I still think it's a good movie...esp. for a Rom-Com. That's awesome, Melissa...meet that 80 movie threshold in 2010 and we'll give you a spot on the blog.
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