The Films of 2010 (MCN) Jan 12

New to Vancouver screens this week, Mike Leigh's "Another Year" (#13), and Peter Weir's "The Way Back." The intriguing "Marwencol" (#46) plays half a dozen times at VanCity and then will be gone. Also on this list and still playing on Vancouver screens are The Social Network (#1), Black Swan (#4), The King's Speech (#6), 127 Hours (#7), The Kids Are All Right (#8), True Grit (#9), The Fighter (#12), Inside Job (#18), Blue Valentine (#19), Never Let Me Go (#29), Rabbit Hole (#35), Somewhere (#41), Tangled (#55), Conviction (#85), Fair Game (#91).

And Videomatica's got a whole pile of the best films of 2011; Animal Kingdom (#26) is a recent arrival, with Nowhere Boy (underappreciated at #92), Let Me In (#21), Dogtooth (#17), Never Let Me Go (#29) and Conviction (#92) soon to hit the shelves. Plenty of other Videomatica titles are noted below.


And what the heck, I've listed my favourites at the very bottom. A good crop in 2010: lots I like a lot.

Movie City News
Compilation of Critic Top Tens for 2010
January 12, 2010

1 The Social Network 1122 VM
2 Winter's Bone 612.5 VM
3 Inception 602 VM
4 Black Swan 573.5
5 Toy Story 3 532 VM
6 The King’s Speech 502
7 127 Hours 335.5
8 The Kids Are All Right 327.5 VM
9 True Grit 323
10 Carlos 315.5

11 The Ghost Writer 286.5 VM
12 The Fighter 276.5
13 Another Year (Mike Leigh) 221.5
14 Exit Through The Gift Shop 206 VM
15 A Prophet 183 VM
16 I Am Love 182 VM
17 Dogtooth 162.5 VM Jan 25
18 Inside Job 156.5
19 Blue Valentine 153.5
20 Please Give 138.5 VM

21 Let Me In 128.5 VM Feb 1
22 Mother (Madeo) 127.5 VM
23 Greenberg 125.5 VM
24 Shutter Island 107.5 VM
25 Everyone Else 105.5
26 Animal Kingdom 98.5 VM
27 Scott Pilgrim vs The World 98 VM
28 Red Riding Trilogy 92.5 VM
29 Never Let Me Go 91.5 VM Feb 1
30 Four Lions 87.5 VM Mar 8
30 Sweetgrass 87.5 VM

32 The Town 84 VM
33 Wild Grass 83.5 VM
34 White Material 78
35 Rabbit Hole 71.5
36 How to Train Your Dragon 71 VM
37 The Secret in Their Eyes 70.5 VM
38 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 66.5 VM
39 Fish Tank 63 VM
40 The Last Train Home 62.5 VM Feb 1

41 Somewhere 61.5
42 Vincere 58.5
43 Secret Sunshine 58 VM
44 Enter the Void 55.5 VM Jan 25
45 Kick-Ass 51.5 VM
46 Marwencol 51
47 The Oath 45.5 VM
48 Alamar (To The Sea) 45 VM Mar 1
49 Buried 41.5
50 Illusionist, The 41

51 Life During Wartime 40.5
52 Lourdes 39.5
53 Trash Humpers 38
53 Daddy Longlegs 38
55 Tangled 37
56 Restrepo 36 VM
57 Lebanon 35.5
58 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 35
59 Catfish 33.5 VM
60 Strange Case of Angelica, The 33

61 Tiny Furniture 31.5
62 Monsters 28.5 VM Feb 8
62 Our Beloved Month of August 28.5
64 Splice 27
65 Boxing Gym 26
66 Biutiful 25.5
66 Tilman Story, The 25.5
66 Father of My Children, The 25.5
69 The American 24.5 VM
70 Inferno 22.5

71 Company Men 21.5
72 Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench 21
73 Agora 20.5
74 Waiting for 'Superman' 19
74 Mother and Child 19
74 Hereafter 19
77 Film Unfinished, A 18.5
78 And Everything Is Going Fine 18
78 I'm Still Here 18 VM
78 Prince of Broadway 18
78 Machete 18
78 Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl 18
78 Night Catches Us 18

84 Bluebeard 17
84 World on a Wire 17
84 Around a Small Mountain 17
87 Jackass 3D 16
87 Girl Who Played With Fire 16
87 Fair Game 16
87 Ricky 16
87 Get Low 16 VM Feb 22

92 Conviction 15 VM Feb 1
92 Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 15
92 Ajami 15
92 Amer 15
92 Nowhere Boy 15 VM Jan 25
97 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work 14.5
98 Mademoiselle Chambon 13.5
99 I Love You Phillip Morris 13
100 Despicable Me 12.5 VM

101 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu 12
101 Mesrine (Parts 1 and 2) 12
101 Made in Dagenham 12
101 Easy A 12 VM
105 Town Called Panic 11
105 The Square 11 VM
105 Hadewijch 11
105 Howl 11 VM
105 October Country 11
110 Mid-August Lunch 10.5 VM

111 Alice in Wonderland 10
111 City Island 10
111 Cyrus 10
114 Down Terrace 9.5
115 100 Voices: A Journey Home 9
115 Tron: Legacy 9
115 Exploding Girl 9
118 Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector 8.5
118 Juche System, The 8.5
120 Way Back, The (Peter Weir) 8
120 Soul Kitchen 8

122 My Dog Tulip 7.5
122 Babies 7.5
124 OSS 117: Lost in Rio 6.5
125 Other Guys 6
125 It's Kind of a Funny Story 6
127 RED 5
127 Robber, The 5
127 45365 5
130 Green Zone 4
130 Nice Guy Johnny 4
130 Waste Land 4

133 Unstoppable 3
133 Piranha 3D 3
133 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 3
133 Tempest, The 3
137 Runaways, The 2

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Ron's 14 Favourites So Far
1. Animal Kingdom / Blue Valentine
3. Winter's Bone / The King's Speech
5. Nowhere Boy / True Grit / The Fighter
8. Please Give / The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo / The American
11. The Secret In Their Eyes / Kick-Ass
13. Marwencol / Get Low / Black Swan / Toy Story 3

Of Gods And Men would be up there with Nowhere Boy & Co., except it hasn't gotten distribution outside of film festivals so far, so it will wait for the 2011 lists.