2010 in Films
2010 Films List + Best Performances + My Special Awards
So I finally decided to actually organize my films' ratings for 2010 cause I was horrible at updating this list throughout the year. And I'm adopting the ABC rating system now because rating films out of 10 was becoming too difficult and specific for me. These are for the most part films that were released in 2010 (at least in the United States). I didn't keep track of old movies that I saw for the first time; there probably weren't many of those anyways. The two main films I still haven't been able to see but want to are Another Year and Biutiful, as well as a few more documentaries.
2010 Films
A Prophet (2009, Audiard) | A
Fish Tank (2009, Arnold) | B+
Valentine's Day (2010, Marshall) | D+
Shutter Island (2010, Scorsese) | B
Leap Year (2010, Tucker) | C+
Green Zone (2010, Greengrass) | B-
The Ghost Writer (2010, Polanski) | A-
Clash of the Titans (2010, Leterrier) | C-
Kick Ass (2010, Vaughn) | B+
How to Train Your Dragon (2010, Deblois & Sanders) | A
When in Rome (2010, Johnson) | D
Dear John (2010, Hallstrom) | C
Alice in Wonderland (2010, Burton) | C
Iron Man 2 (2010, Favreau) | B-
The Losers (2010, White) | C
Babies (2010, Balmes) | B
Remember Me (2010, Coulter) | C-
Inception (2010, Nolan) | A
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010, Hahn) | B
The Human Centipede (2010, Six) | C
Mother and Child (2010, Barcha) | B
Sex and the City 2 (2010, King) | C-
The Karate Kid (2010, Zwart) | B-
Toy Story 3 (2010, Unkrich) | A
Winter's Bone (2010, Granik) | B+
I Am Love (2009, Guadagnino) | B
The Killer Inside Me (2010, Winterbottom) | B-
The Kids Are All Right (2010, Cholodenko) | A-
Dinner for Schmucks (2010, Roach) | C+
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010, Blakeson) | B+
Animal Kingdom (2010, Michod) | B+
Never Let Me Go (2010, Romanek) | B+
The Town (2010, B. Affleck) | B
Jonah Hex (2010, Hayward) | C-
Easy A (2010, Gluck) | B
The Social Network (2010, Fincher) | A
Leaves of Grass (2010, Nelson) | B
The A Team (2010, Carnahan) | B-
Red (2010, Schwentke) | B-
Despicable Me (2010, Coffin & Renaud) | B
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1 (2010, Yates) | B+
127 Hours (2010, Boyle) | B+
The Red Riding Trilogy (2009) | A
Exit through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy) | A
Tangled (2010, Greno & Howard) | A-
I Love You, Philip Morris (2010, Ficarra & Requa) | B
Black Swan (2010, Aronofsky) | B+
Dogtooth (2009, Lanthimos) | B
Rabbit Hole (2010, Mitchell) | A-
True Grit (2010, Coens) | A
Tron Legacy (2010, Kosinski) | B
Catfish (2010, Joust & Schulman) | B-
The King's Speech (2010, Hooper) | A-
Love and Other Drugs (2010, Zwick) | C
Somewhere (2010, S. Coppola) | B
Please Give (2010, Holofcener) | B
Blue Valentine (2010, Cianfrance) | A+
The Fighter (2010, Russell) | A-
Carlos (2010, Assayas) | A
All Good Things (2010, Jareki) | C+
Casino Jack (2010, Hickenlooper) | C
White Material (2009, Denis) | B+
Top Acting Performances - Top 10's in alphabetical order
Best Lead Actor
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jim Carrey, I Love You Philip Morris
Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Andrew Garfield, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Edgar Ramirez, Carlos
Tahir Rahim, A Prophet
Best Lead Actress
Gemma Arterton, The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Annette Bening, Mother and Child
Isabelle Huppert, White Material
Kate Jarvis, Fish Tank
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Tilda Swinton, I Am Love
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Supporting Actor
Niels Arestrup, A Prophet
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Pierce Brosnan, The Ghost Writer
Michael Fassbender, Fish Tank
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Guy Pearce, Animal Kingdom
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, Shutter Island
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Marion Cotillard, Inception
Dale Dickey, Winter's Bone
Rebecca Hall, Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
Barbara Hershey, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Chloe Moretz, Kick Ass
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Dianne Wiest, Rabbit Hole
Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer
Best Performance in a Bad Movie
Kirsten Dunst, All Good Things
Worst Performance in a Good Movie
Kim Cattrall, The Ghost Writer
Mediocre Movies with the Same Plot Award
The A-Team, The Losers and The Expendables.
Best Scene Stealer
John Malkovich, RED
Best Screen Couples
Dean and Cindy (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams), Blue Valentine
Dom and Mal (Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard), Inception
Nic and Jules (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore), The Kids Are All Right
Bertie and Elizabeth (Colin Firth and Helena Bonham-Carter), The King's Speech
Micky and Charlene (Mark Wahlberg and Amy Adams), The Fighter
Rapunzel and Flynn (Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi), Tangled
Mark and Eduardo (Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield), The Social Network
Most Disappointing Chemistry
Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
Most Memorable Scenes
Zero Gravity Hallway Fight, Inception
The Final Dance, Black Swan
Arm Cutting, 127 Hours
The Crew Meet, The Social Network
The Fight in the Office, Blue Valentine
Best Child Acting
The children of Never Let Me Go
The children of Winter's Bone
Faith Wladyka in Blue Valentine
Best Animal Performance
The chicken in The Social Network
Best Minor Character
The pretentious guy at the movie theater, The Fighter
Best Lines
"I need your observations like I need a dick in my ass", The Kids Are All Right
"Sorry, my Prada is at the cleaners, along with my hoodie and my 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douche bag!", The Social Network
"I'm six-five, 220 pounds, and there are two of me.", The Social Network
"You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another. There is nothing free except the grace of God.", True Grit
"Hey, we don't hate Cambodians. White people do this to other white people all the time.", The Fighter
Most Obvious Oscar Clip Line
"Because I have a voice!", The King's Speech
Trend That Needs to Die
3-D
Movies That Didn't Deserve All the Money They Made
Alice in Wonderland
Twilight
Clash of the Titans
Valentine's Day
Movies That Deserved Better Box Office
Let Me In
127 Hours
Rabbit Hole
Kick Ass
MVPs of 2010
Leonardo DiCaprio; Shutter Island, Inception
Andrew Garfield; The Social Network, Never Let Me Go, Red Riding
Annette Bening; Mother and Child, The Kids Are All Right
Mark Ruffalo; Shutter Island, The Kids Are All Right
Michelle Williams; Shutter Island, Blue Valentine
Jeff Bridges; Tron Legacy, True Grit
Roger Deakins; How to Train Your Dragon, True Grit
Actors I Missed This Year
Meryl Streep
Penelope Cruz
Movies That Were Supposed Come Out This Year But Didn't (and therefore made me angry)
The Tree of Life
Last Night
The Rum Diary
Anticipated Films of 2011
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
Hugo Cabret (Martin Scorsese)
Shame (Steven McQueen)
The Grandmasters (Wong Kar-Wai)
Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Your Highess (David Gordon Green)
Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes)
Hanna (Joe Wright)
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier)
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
Contagion (Steven Sodebergh)
The Ides of March (George Clooney)
God of Carnage (Roman Polanski)
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
My Week With Marilyn (Simon Curtis)
One Day (Lone Scherfig)
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)