Mike's 2010 Movie List

You guys know the drill. This list isn't necessarily the best films of the year but it is a list of my favorite. I liked or loved everything on the list with the exception of the bottom three.



1       Blue Valentine
2       Scott Pilgrim vs The World
3       Black Swan
4       Never Let Me Go
5       True Grit
6       Best Worst Movie
7       Inception
8       Bedevilled
9       Toy Story 3
10      Thunder Soul
11      The Loved Ones
12      Winter's Bone
13      The Last Circus
14      Social Network
15      Buried
16      127 Hours
17      Golden Slumber
18      Winnebago Man
19      How to Train Your Dragon
20      Cyrus
21      The Fighter
22      Kick-Ass (Wide Release Version)
23      Dogtooth
24      The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
25      The Good, The Bad, and The Weird
26      13 Assassins
27      Rubber
28      Tucker & Dale vs Evil
29      Symbol
30      Ip Man 2
31      Let Me In
32      A Somewhat Gentle Man
33      The City of Life and Death
34      Please Give
35      Rare Exports
36      Enter the Void
37      Frozen
38      Micmacs
39      Temple Grandin
40      Serbian Film
41      American: a Bill Hicks Story
42      Get Low
43      Julia's Eyes
44      And Everything is Going Fine
45      Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals
46      Solitary Man
47      Shutter Island
48      Harry Brown
49      His and Hers
50      Hubble 3D
51      Kevorkian
52      Hood to Coast
53      The Man from Nowhere
54      Human Centipede
55      Kidnapped
56      Cold Fish
57      Catfish
58      Gasland
59      Frozen Flower
60      Summer Wars
61      Fire of Conscience
62      The Crazies
63      Phobia 2
64      Norweigian Ninja
65      We Are What We Are
66      The Kids Are All Right
67      City Island
68      The Housemaid
69      Jackass 3D
70      Agnosia
71      Carancho
72      The Last Exorcism
73      Redline
74      The People vs George Lucas
75      Hot Tub Time Machine
76      Get Him to The Greek
77      The Special Relationship
78      I Corrupt All Cops
79      Hatchet 2
80      In the Attic
81      Green Hornet (2011)
82      The Life and Death of a Porno Gang
83      Bay Rong (Clash)
84      Chaw
85      Stakeland
86      Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
87      Drive Angry (2011)
88      Primal
89      Woochi
90      Piranha 3D
91      The People I've Slept With
92      Robogeisha
93      Lucky
94      MacGruber
95      Tesuo: The Bullet Man
96      Au Revoir Taipai
97      Kung Fu Dunk
98      Kamui
99      Outcast
100 Tron Legacy
101 Bunraku
102 Red
103 Eat, Pray, Love

Eric's 2010 Movie List

This year was pretty solid for flicks -- especially the top dozen or so on my list, but there was no single movie that stood out for me like in recent years. There may be no Lebron James, but the starters are really good role players and the bench is very deep. It's remarkable that I can honestly recommend the top fifty or so on my list. If you never see the bottom ten, you're missing nothing. As per usual, you'll see films that have appeared on previous lists. I likely saw those at some festival but it was only this year distributed for release in theaters.


1 Winter's Bone
2 True Grit
3 Black Swan
4 Rabbit Hole
5 Toy Story 3
6 Never Let Me Go
7 Inception
8 Un Prophète
9 Animal Kingdom
10 The Red Riding Trilogy: 1983
11 Blue Valentine
12 Exit Through the Gift Shop
13 Welcome to the Rileys
14 The King's Speech
15 The Two Escobars
16 Best Worst Movie
17 The Fighter
18 The Red Riding Trilogy: 1980
19 Shutter Island
20 Hello Lonesome
21 Winnebago Man
22 Dogtooth
23 The Social Network
24 The Secret in Their Eyes
25 Greenberg
26 Fair* Game
27 The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
28 The Red Riding Trilogy: 1974
29 Restrepo
30 Temple Grandin
31 Waking Sleeping Beauty
32 The Town
33 Rainbows End
34 127 Hours
35 45365
36 Exporting Raymond
37 Biutiful
38 The Kids Are All Right
39 Catfish
40 The Parking Lot Movie
41 Breaking Upwards
42 Kisses
43 GasLand
44 Cyrus
45 Casino Jack and the United States of Money
46 Youth In Revolt
47 American: The Bill Hicks Story
48 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
49 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
50 The Lottery
51 Somewhere
52 Freakonomics
53 My Name is Smith
54 Get Low
55 The Ghost Writer
56 Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story
57 Dig
58 Sons of Perdition
59 Jack Goes Boating
60 Elvis and Annabelle
61 Please Give
62 Weakness
63 The Square
64 Miss Nobody
65 Reel Injun
66 Date Night
67 Solitary Man
68 I'm Still Here
69 Tiny Furniture
70 Main Street
71 I am Love
72 Phantom Punch