Tom Charity's Best Films of 2010 - from cnn.com
Depending on what part of the country you live in, there were approximately 500 (New York) to 250 (everywhere else) new films released in theatres this year. I didn’t see all of them, and neither did you.
No 10-best list is definitive, and in any case, this exercise is inevitably entirely subjective. I’ll say that again: It’s just my opinion folks, based on the 200-plus new movies I’ve seen this year, and 20 years writing and thinking about films.
If you’re looking for a list of the 10 biggest box office titles of the year, you’re in the wrong place — just because "Clash of the Titans" and "The Last Airbender" made three-quarters of a billion dollars between them, it doesn’t make them must-see movies in my book.
Small isn’t always beautiful, but you’re no true film lover if you’re not open to discovering movies as original and invigorating as "Mother," from South Korea, or "A Prophet," from France (combined U.S. gross: $2.5 million).
If my choices don’t match your own, please share yours in the comments. I’ll read them with interest and hope to get the chance to check out good flicks I missed, which is, after all, the most useful point of the exercise.
On that note, without further ado, my top 10 of the year:
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