I’ve been slacking off about getting this particular list down and posted, but with film news being quite slow outside of Oscar-related items I thought it was time to get my lazy ass to get this done. Some of the titles I’ll mention are favorite films of 2010 for me while others only made it onto the list not because I liked or even enjoyed them, but they were just well-executed and made.
A couple of the titles I’ve listed also made their premiere’s in their home country earlier than 2010, but it wasn’t until this past year that they were shown here in the U.S. thus it qualifies as a 2010 for me. For those who have seen the very final title on my list should know that this is one title that I definitely didn’t find entertaining at all, but found it to be as daring and as subversive as another film made decades before it which received similar negative reactions from many: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo.
- Black Swan
- True Grit
- Inception
- Restrepo
- Winter’s Bone
- The Fighter
- The King’s Speech
- Kick-Ass
- The Last Exorcism
- Animal Kingdom
- Un prophète
- Lebanon
- Let Me In
- Despicable Me
- The Social Network
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
- Toy Story 3
- Waiting for Superman
- How To Train Your Dragon
- The Town
- Mesrine
- Mother
- Carlos
- Blue Valentine
- A Serbian Film
Through the Shattered Lens 
Impressive list, especially nice to see Black Swan at #1 and Inception, Winter’s Bone, Animal Kingdon, and the King’s Speech in the top ten. There’s only 1 title on your list that I disagree with and you can probably guess which one it is so I’ll just leave it at that. 🙂
A Serbian Film, I went and looked up on Wikipedia. You know I’m going to have to see it now, just so that I can say that I did. 🙂
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I saw A Serbian Film once and that was enough for me. I may re-visit it many years down the road, but once enough to last one for quite awhile.
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Nice list. I have seen a little more than half of them, so there are some others I still need to check out (A Prophet and Carlos, to name a couple). Kudos to you for including A Serbian Film, you’re the first person I have seen that listed that in their top films. I am kind of curious to check it out, but I doubt I will be seeing it anytime soon.
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I can understand why not many people puts “A Serbian Film” on any of their top 2010 films because of its content. I just think people just look too much at the shock and not whats actually being told.
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