Film Junk’s Top 10 Movies of 2010
Despite all the talk about 2010 somehow being a bad year for movies, I think we all had a pretty difficult time narrowing down our favourite movies of the year to just ten. Clearly there is a lot more good stuff out there than anyone seems to remember… hopefully this will serve as a reminder of sorts. Once again this year we have avoided putting together a combined list and instead decided to present everyone’s individual top 10 lists separately. Ironically, this is a year when we probably could have agreed on a combined list fairly easily since there are a lot of movies that are shared between our lists.
Generally speaking, a movie had to get a theatrical release in North America in 2010 in order to be eligible for our top 10, although there are some exceptions for movies that were seen at festivals. The option was also there for people to include honourable mentions, and a few of us did separate lists for our favourite documentaries as well (be sure to check out The Documentary Blog’s Top 10 Documentaries of 2010). We’ll be discussing our choices on the next episode of the Film Junk Podcast. What are your top 10 movies of the year? Let us know in the comments below!
Colin
1. The Social Network
2. Black Swan
3. Toy Story 3
4. Catfish
5. True Grit
6. Greenberg
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Enter the Void
9. The American
10. Easy A
Goon
1. Black Swan
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. 127 Hours
4. The Social Network
5. True Grit
6. Inception
7. Shutter Island
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9. Fubar 2
10. Mother
Honourable Mentions: Let Me In, Kick-Ass, Toy Story 3, A-Team, Winnebago Man, Youth In Revolt, Best Worst Movie, The Town, Greenberg, Easy A, Get Him to the Greek
Top 10 Albums
1. Marina and the Diamonds – the Family Jewels
2. Robyn – Body Talk
3. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
4. Sigh – Scenes From Hell
5. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
6. Twin Shadow – Forget
7. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
8. Amorphis – Magic and Mayhem
9. Hot Chip – One Life Stand
10. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl – Record Collection
Greg
1. Black Swan
2. True Grit
3. The Social Network
4. Inception
5. The Fighter
6. Shutter Island
7. Let Me In
8. The Girl Who Played With Fire
9. Somewhere
10. Winter’s Bone
Honourable Mentions: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Toy Story 3, The Town, Easy A, Rabbit Hole, Never Let Me Go, Kick-Ass, The Expendables, Jackass 3D, Trigger, I Saw the Devil
Top 5 Documentaries
1. Winnebago Man
2. Tabloid
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Boxing Gym
5. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
Honourable Mentions: Restrepo, Game of Death, The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Catfish
Jay
1. Shutter Island
2. The Social Network
3. Black Swan
4. Inception
5. Somewhere
6. I Saw the Devil
7. Toy Story 3
8. 127 Hours
9. Animal Kingdom
10. Monsters
Honourable Mentions: Four Lions, I’m Still Here, Mother, True Grit, Let Me In, The Expendables, Piranha 3D, How to Train Your Dragon, The Fighter, Never Let Me Go, Jackass 3D
Top 10 Documentaries
1. Happy People: A Year of the Taiga
2. Tabloid
3. Into Eternity
4. Last Train Home
5. Sweetgrass
6. Exit Through the Gift Shop
7. Cropsey
8. Boxing Gym
9. Caves of Forgotten Dreams
10. Life With Murder
Honourable Mentions: Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, Armadillo, Gasland, The Oath, Cool It, Catfish, Waste Land, 12th & Delaware, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Arsy-Versy, The Invention of Dr NakaMats, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Top 10 Albums
1. Sleigh Bells – Treats
2. Salem – King Night
3. Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
4. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
5. Arcade Fire – Suburbs
6. Vampire Weekend – Contra
7. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening
8. Tanlines – Volume On
9. El Guincho – Pop Negro
10. The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Sean
1. Inception
2. 127 Hours
3. Black Swan
4. The Social Network
5. The American
6. Kick-Ass
7. Animal Kingdom
8. Mother
9. Toy Story 3
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Honourable Mentions: Somewhere, Never Let Me Go, Winter’s Bone, Let Me In, Splice, Shutter Island, Red Riding Trilogy, Fish Tank
Top 10 Documentaries
1. Catfish
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Tabloid
4. GasLand
5. Cropsey
6. Best Worst Movie
7. The Invention of Dr. Nakamats
8. Into Eternity
9. Restrepo
10. 12th and Delaware
Frank
1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Shutter Island
4. The Town
5. Exit Through The Gift Shop
6. 127 Hours
7. How To Train Your Dragon
8. True Grit
9. Toy Story 3
10. I’m Still Here
Honourable Mentions: Somewhere, Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, Jackass 3D, The Expendables
Aaron
1. Toy Story 3
2. The Social Network
3. Inception
4. Shutter Island
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. Black Swan
7. 127 Hours
8. Rabbit Hole
9. The Fighter
10. True Grit
Honorable Mentions: Animal Kingdom, Four Lions, Let Me In, The Town, The Ghost Writer, The Illusionist