AV Club's The Year in Film 2010

Add to my lists | Print this list

The end of the year traditionally brings a wealth of best-of candidates, as major studios and studio-affiliated arthouse labels unveil their most austere and decorously appointed films for awards consideration. Yet, a few stray winners aside, we in The A.V. Club film staff found ourselves looking further back in the year for list-makers, including a handful of uncommonly ambitious summer blockbusters, several festival holdovers, and the steady supply of indie and foreign films that slipped in and out of theaters, often woefully unnoticed. Fortunately, 2010 was strong enough in the front end to make up for the back, and we wound up finding plenty of films to rally behind, with such a diverse range of styles, budgets, and themes that it’s impossible to draw a thread to connect them all. So here, for your consideration, are a bunch of films we really liked.

  1. 1.
    Winter's Bone
    by Debra Granik

  2. 2.
    The Social Network (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

  3. 3.
    Black Swan
    by Darren Aronofsky

  4. 4.
    Inception
    by Christopher Nolan

  5. 5.
    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    by Banksy

  6. 6.
    Toy Story 3
    by Lee Unkrich

  7. 7.
    Mother
    by Bong Joon-Ho

  8. 8.
    Carlos The Jackal [2010, France][3-DVD Trilogy]
    by Olivier Assayas

  9. 9.
    A Prophet
    by Jacques Audiard

  10. 10.
    True Grit (2010)
    by Joel & Ethan Coen

  11. 11.
    Greenberg
    by Noah Baumbach

  12. 12.
    Dogtooth
    by Giorgos Lanthimos

  13. 13.
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    by Edgar Wright

  14. 14.
    Shutter Island

  15. 15.
    The Kids Are All Right
    by Lisa Cholodenko

This is a community list. You can contribute, edit, or help maintain it by adding it to your lists.
Created by cfrydj on Dec 24, 2010.
 

Comments


or
Login with Facebook