The 24 Best Movies of 2010

With all the Oscar hype everywhere, I thought it would be a good time to re-post my list of the year's best movies, especially since my top five choices managed to garner only one single nomination between them! This time I also ranked my 14 runners-up, worthy titles all. Note how the current frontrunner, The King's Speech, is not here...

1. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
2. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
5. White Material (Claire Denis)
6. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
7. True Grit (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher)
9. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
10. Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman)

11. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
12. Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio)
13. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
14. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
15. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
16. Machete (Robert Rodriguez)
17. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
18. Marwencol (Jeff Malmberg)
19. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
20. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
21. Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero)
22. Splice (Vincenzo Natali)
23. The Book of Eli (Allen Hughes/Albert Hughes)
24. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)