Film 2010 Critics Top 10

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2010 Critics' Picks

Aint it Cool News(Capone)

1 The Social Network

2 Inception

3 True Grit

4 Winters Bone

5 Black Swan

6 The Fighter

7 Toy Story 3

8 Shutter Island

9 127 Hours

10 Never Let Me Go

Aint it Cool News(Harry Knowles)

1 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

2 True Grit

3 Black Swan


5 Never Let Me Go

6 Bedevilled

7A Serbian Film

8 The Fighter

9 Sound of Noise

10 The Last Circus

The Arizona Republic

(Bill Goodykoontz)1 The Social Network

2 Inception

3 Winters Bone

4 The Kings Speech

5 Toy Story 3

6 Get Low

7 127 Hours

8Animal Kingdom

9 The Fighter

10 Nowhere Boy

Associated Press(David Germain)

1 Winters Bone

2 Four Lions

3 Barneys Version

4 The Kings Speech

5 Never Let Me Go

6 Inception

7Another Year

8 True Grit

9 127 Hours


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Associated Press(Christy Lemire)


2 Inception

3 Winters Bone

4 I Am Love

5 Black Swan

6 127 Hours7 Never Let Me Go

8Animal Kingdom

9 The Kings Speech

10 Exit Through the Gift Shop

Austin Chronicle(Kimberley Jones)

Austin Chronicle(Marjorie Baumgarten)

1 A Prophet

2 The Fighter

3 Black Swan

4 Winters Bone



7 Fish Tank

8 The Kids are All Right

9 Inside Job

10 Let Me In

Austin Chronicle(Marc Savlov)

1 Black Swan

2 The Kings Speech

3 Monsters

4 Restrepo


6 Winters Bone

7 The Fighter

8A Prophet

9 Down Terrace

10 Get Low

Austin Chronicle(Kimberley Jones)

1 The Social Network2 Black Swan

3 Everyone Else

4 Red Riding Trilogy

5 Monsters

6 Toy Story 3

7 Winters Bone

8 Its Kind of a Funny Story

9 The Exploding Girl



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Baltimore Sun(Michael Sragow)


2 Vincere

3 The Kings Speech


5 Toy Story 3

6 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 17 Winters Bone

8 True Grit

9 The Tempest

10 Inside Job

Boston Globe(Ty Burr)




4 Toy Story 35 Marwencol

6 Boxing Gym

7 The Fighter

8A Film Unfinished

9 Last Train Home

10 True Grit

Boston Globe(Wesley Morris)

1 The Fighter

2 Inside Job

3 Jackass 3D

4 Machete

5 Mother and Child



8 Sweetgrass

9 Toy Story 3

10 Vincere

Boxoffice Magazine

(Pam Grady)

1 Animal Kingdom

2 Marwencol

3 127 Hours

4 The Trotsky

5 Brighton Rock

6 True Grit

7 Triage

8 Soul Kitchen

9 Undertow


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10 Kick-Ass

Boxoffice Magazine(Pete Hammond)

1 Another Year

2 Biutiful

3 Black Swan

4 The Ghost Writer

5 Inception

6 The Kings Speech

7 Rabbit Hole

8 Shutter Island


10 Toy Story 3

Boxoffice Magazine

(Mark Keizer)

1 Another Year

2 Black Swan

3 Carlos

4 Inception

5 OSS 117: Lost in Rio

6 The Juche Idea

7 The Kings Speech


9 The Tillman Story

10 Winters Bone

Boxoffice Magazine(Wade Major)

1 The Kings Speech

2Ajami

3 Rabbit Hole

4 Mother and Child

5 The Way Back

6 Made in Dagenham

7Animal Kingdom

8Another Year

9 Its Kind of a Funny Story

10 Father of My Children

Boxoffice Magazine(John P. McCarthy)

1 The Eclipse

2 Inception


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3Another Year

4 Winters Bone

5 Four Lions

6Alamar

7 Black Swan

8 Lebanon

9 The Father of My Children


Boxoffice Magazine(Amy Nicholson)

1 Let Me In

2 Life During Wartime

3 The Illusionist

4 Please Give

5 The Square


7 The Kings Speech

8 Somewhere

9 Babies

10 The Tempest

Boxoffice Magazine(Steve Ramos)

1 Blue Valentine


3 Carlos

4 Dogtooth


6 Last Train Home

7A Prophet


9 Daddy Longlegs

10 Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1

Boxoffice Magazine(Sara Maria Vizcarrondo)


2 I Love You Phillip Morris

3 Red, White and Blue

4 Biker Fox

5Audrey the Trainwreck

6 Love of Hate

7 Jackass 3D


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8 Four Lions

9 Flooding with Love for the Kids

10 The Last Exorcism

Chicago Reader(Andrea Gronvall)


2 I Am Love

3A Prophet

4 Restrepo


6 Inside Job

7 The Ghost Writer

8 Winters Bone


10 True Grit

Chicago Reader(J.R. Jones)

1 Carlos

2 Dogtooth

3 Enter the Void

4 Henri-Georges Clouzots Inferno


6 Please Give

7 Restrepo


9 The Square

10 Winters Bone


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Chicago Sun-Times(Roger Ebert)


2 The Kings Speech

3 Black Swan

4 I Am Love

5 Winters Bone

6 Inception

7 The Secret in Their Eyes8 The American


10 The Ghost Writer

Chicago Tribune(Michael Phillips)


2 The Secret in Their Eyes

3 Boxing Gym

4 Last Train Home

5 Greenberg

6 Carlos


8 The Kings Speech

9 The Ghost Writer

10 The Fighter


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Christian Science Monitor(Peter Rainer)

1 Another Year

2 I Am Love

3 Inside Job

4 Last Train Home

5 The Ghost Writer

6 The Illusionist

7 The Kings Speech

8 Toy Story 3

9 Vincere

10 Winters Bone

Cleveland Plain Dealer(Clint OConnor)

1 Winters Bone

2 The Kings Speech


4 Nowhere Boy

5 Inception6 Toy Story 3

7 Blue Valentine

8 Marwencol

9 Let Me In

10 Robin Hood

Cinematical(Moviefone Staff)

1 Toy Story 3


3 Inception

4 Winters Bone


6 Black Swan

7 True Grit


9 The Kings Speech

10 How to Train Your Dragon

Cinematical(Staff picks)

1 Black Swan

2 Inception


4 Rabbit Hole

5 Toy Story 3


7 True Grit


9 Enter the Void


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10 Four Lions

Cinema Blend(Katey Rich)

1 Black Swan



4 Exit through the Gift Shop

5 True Grit

6 127 Hours7 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

8 Restrepo

9 Winters Bone

10Another Year

Cinema Blend(Josh Tyler)

1 Toy Story 3

2 The Kings Speech

3 Inception


5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

6 Shutter Island

7American: The Bill Hicks Story


9 Restrepo


Dallas Morning News(Chris Vognar)

1 127 Hours2A Prophet

3 Winters Bone



6 Toy Story 3


8 Inception

9 True Grit

10 The Fighter

E! Online(Luke Y. Thompson)

1 Four Lions

2 Enter the Void

3 The Ghost Writer

4 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

5 Im Still Here

6 Idiots and Angels

7 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of GaHoole

8 Inception

9 The Illusionist


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10 Piranha 3D

Empire

1 Inception


3 Toy Story 3

4 Up in the Air

5A Prophet


7 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

8 Shutter Island

9 Winters Bone

10 Kick-Ass

Entertainment Weekly(Lisa Schwarzbaum)



3 Winters Bone

4 Toy Story 3

5 Last Train Home

6Animal Kingdom

7 The Ghost Writer

8A Prophet

9Another Year

10 127 Hours

Entertainment Weekly(Owen Gleiberman)


2 The Kids are All Right3 Toy Story 3


5 The Ghost Writer

6Another Year

7 Blue Valentine

8 The Town

9Ajami

10 127 Hours

Entertainment Weekly(Stephen King)

1 Let Me In

2 The Town

3 Inception


5 Takers

6 Kick-Ass

7 Splice

8 Monsters

9 Jackass 3D

10 Green Zone


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Eye Weekly(Jason Anderson & Adam Nayman)

1 Buried

2 Carlos

3 Cold Weather

4 Everyone Else


6 FUBAR II

7 The Ghost Writer8 Incendies

9 Mother


Film.com(Aaron Peck)

1 Inception


3 Winters Bone

4 Catfish

5 Toy Story 3

6 127 Hours

7 Buried

8 Four Lions


10 Rabbit Hole

Film.com(Dre Rivas)


2 Inception

3 Black Swan


5 The Fighter

6 Toy Story 3

7 127 Hours

8A Prophet

9 True Grit

10 The Ghost Writer

Film.com(Elisabeth Rappe)

1 True Grit

2 Black Swan


4 Inception

5 Winters Bone

6 Rabbit Hole

7 Toy Story 3

8Agora


10 Going the Distance

Film.com(Eric D. Snider)


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1 Toy Story 3

2 Inception

3 Black Swan


5 The Kings Speech

6 Rabbit Hole

7 127 Hours

8 Mother

9Animal Kingdom10 Four Lions

Film.com(Laremy Legel)

1 Inception

2 127 Hours

3 True Grit

4Another Year

5A Prophet

6 The Fighter

7 Get Low

8 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World9 Certified Copy

10 Howl

Film.com(MaryAnn Johanson)

1 Never Let Me Go

2 Black Swan

3 The Kings Speech

4 Despicable Me

5Agora

6 Inception


8 Catfish

9 Four Lions

10Another Year

Film School Rejects(Neil Miller)

1 Black Swan

2A Prophet

3 Four Lions

4 The Kings Speech

5 The Good, the Bad and the Weird


7 Inception

8 Micmacs

9 Merantau

10 Thunder Soul


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The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Liam Lacey & Rick Groen)

1 Another Year

2 Carlos

3 Despicable Me

4 Inside Job

5 The Kings Speech

6 Marwencol

7 Rabbit Hole8 The Social Network

9 Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives

10 Winters Bone

HitFix(Gregory Ellwood)

1 I Am Love

2 Inception

3 127 Hours

4 Black Swan

5 Rabbit Hole


7 The Ghost Writer

8Another Year

9 True Grit


HitFix(Drew McWeeney)

1 Black Swan

2 Blue Valentine


4 Rabbit Hole

5 I Saw the Devil6 Toy Story 3

7 Four Lions

8 True Grit

9 Inception

10A Serbian Film


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Hollywood Reporter(Kirk Honeycutt)

1 Inception


3 The Kings Speech

4 127 Hours

5 True Grit

6 Carlos

7A Prophet8 The Kids are All Right

9 Winters Bone

10 The Way Back

Hollywood Reporter(Todd McCarthy)

1 Carlos


3 Wild Grass

4A Prophet

5 Sweetgrass

6 Inside Job

7 Toy Story 3

8Animal Kingdom


10 Unstoppable

IMDB

1 Inception

2 Black Swan

3 Toy Story 3


5 How to Train your Dragon

6 Tangled

7 Kick-Ass

8 Shutter Island

9 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1


IndieWire(Peter Knegt)

1 Another Year

2 Everyone Else

3 I Am Love

4 Dogtooth

5 Carlos

6 The Ghost Writer

7 True Grit

8 Black Swan

9 Last Train Home


IndieWire(Eric Kohn)

1 Dogtooth


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3 Winters Bone

4 Daddy Longlegs

5Another Year

6Animal Kingdom

7 Catfish

8Alamar

9 Prince of Broadway

10 Enter the Void

IndieWire/Thompson on Hollywood(Anne Thompson)

1 Winters Bone



4 Toy Story 3

5 Inside Job

6 Carlos

7 Let Me In

8 The Kings Speech

9 True Grit

10 The Ghost Writer

LA Weekly(David Ehrenstein)

1 The Ghost Writer

2 Howl

3 I Am Love4 Henri-Georges Clouzots Inferno

5 Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench


7 The City of your Final Destination

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LA Weekly(Karina Longworth)

1 Trash Humpers

2 Greenberg

3 Daddy Longlegs

4 Dogtooth

5 Somewhere

6 The Red Chapel

7 Everyone Else

8 Shutter Island

9 The Ghost Writer

10 Enter the Void


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LA Weekly(Chuck Wilson)

1 The Ghost Writer

2 Please Give

3 Toy Story 3

4 I Am Love

5 Vincere

6 Blue Valentine

7 Daddy Longlegs8 Greenberg

9 Easier with Practice

10 Breaking Upwards


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Los Angeles Times(Kenneth Turan)

1 Inception / The Social Network / Toy Story 3

2Animal Kingdom

3 Inside Job / The Tillman Story

4Ajami / Eyes Wide Open / Lebanon

5 The Kings Speech

6 Night Catches Us / Noras Will

7A Prophet / Mademoiselle Chambon / White Material8 Kisses / Prince of Broadway / A Town Called Panic / Unstoppable / The Town

9 True Grit

10 Winters Bone

Los Angeles Times(Betsy Sharkey)


2 Winters Bone

3 Carlos

4 The Kids are All Right5 127 Hours

6 Toy Story 3

7 True Grit

8 Black Swan

9 Restrepo

10 The Kings Speech

McLeans Magazine(Brian D. Johnson)

1 Black Swan


3 Winters Bone

4 The Kings Speech

5 Toy Story 3

6 Hereafter

7 127 Hours

8 Never Let Me Go

9 The Town


Metacritic.com(Marc Doyle)

1 Animal Kingdom

2 Carlos

3 Blue Valentine



6 I Am Love

7 Fish Tank

8 The Town

9 The Kings Speech

10 The Art of the Steal

Metro News (Toronto)


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National Post [Toronto](Chris Knight)

1 Inception

2 The Kings Speech

3 Black Swan

4 127 Hours

5 Biutiful

6 Of Gods and Men

7 The Secret in Their Eyes8 Easy A

9 Toy Story 3


National Post [Toronto](Barry Hertz)


2 Inception



5 Black Swan

6 The Ghost Writer7 Greenberg

8A Prophet

9 Winters Bone

10 Get Him to the Greek

National Post [Toronto](Jay Stone)


2 The Kings Speech

3 Black Swan

4 Toy Story 3



7 Winters Bone

8 The Fighter


10 True Grit

National Post [Toronto](Katherine Monk)


2 Black Swan

3 127 Hours



6 Inside Job

7 True Grit

8 The Kings Speech

9 Kick-Ass

10 Somewhere

National Post [Toronto](Mark Medley)


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2 Inception

3 Marwencol

4 Black Swan

5 The Town

6 True Grit

7 127 Hours

8 Toy Story 3

9 Chloe10 Machete / The Expendables

National Post [Toronto](Melissa Leong)

1 Inception


3 Black Swan

4 The Kings Speech

5 The Fighter

6 Let Me In

7 The Town

8 Get Him to the Greek


10 Easy A

NPR(Robert Mondello)


2 The Kings Speech

3 127 Hours


5 Winters Bone

6 True Grit

7 Inside Job

8 Mesrine: Killer Instinct / Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One

9 Carlos

10 Toy Story 3

New Orleans Times-Picayune(Mike Scott)

1 127 Hours

2 Restrepo

3 Winters Bone


5 Toy Story 3

6 Blue Valentine7 The Kings Speech

8 Inception

9 Get Low

10 Easy A


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New York Daily News(Elizabeth Weitzman)


2 Please Give

3 Let Me In


5 Black Swan

6 Inception

7Animal Kingdom8 The Fighter

9 True Grit

10 Easy A

New York Daily News(Joe Neumaier)

1 Blue Valentine


3 Toy Story 3


5 The Kings Speech

6 The Tillman Story

7 The Fighter

8 Let Me In

9 Get Low

10 Never Let Me Go

New York Magazine(David Edelstein)

1 Winters Bone

2 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and - Inside Job

3 Please Give

4 Toy Story 3

5Another Year

6 Mother and Child

7 Vincere


9 Marwencol

10 Despicable Me

New York Post(Lou Lumenick)

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New York Post(V.A. Musetto)

1 Lourdes


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2 The Girl

3 Dogtooth

4 Winters Bone

5 Enter the Void

6 The Portuguese Nun

7 Mademoiselle Chambon

8 Tiny Furniture

9 Carlos

10 Milk of Sorrow

New York Post(Jarett Wieselman)

1 Black Swan

2 Inception


4 Let Me In


6 Toy Story 3

7 The Fighter

8 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work9 Ghost Writer

10 Easy A

The New York Times(Stephen Holden)


2 Inside Job

3 Inception

4 Carlos

5Another Year

6 Vincere7 White Material


9 True Grit

10 My Dog Tulip

The New York Times(A.O. Scott)

1 Inside Job

2 Toy Story 3

3 Carlos

4 Somewhere


6 Greenberg

7 127 Hours

8 Last Train Home

9 Secret Sunshine


The New York Times(Manohla Dargis)

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The New Yorker(Anthony Lane)

1 Dogtooth

2 The Father of My Children

3 I Am Love


5 Mother

6A Prophet


8 Sweetgrass

9 Toy Story 3

10 Winters Bone

The New Yorker(David Denby)


2 Company Men


4 The Fighter

5 The Ghost Writer

6 Inside Job7 Please Give

8 Restrepo

9 Toy Story 3

10 Winters Bone

The New Yorker(Richard Brody)

1 Shutter Island


3 Somewhere

4 Greenberg

5 Black Swan

6Around a Small Mountain

7 Daddy Longlegs

8 The Strange Case of Angelica

9 Tiny Furniture

10 Our Beloved Month of August


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Newsweek(David Ansen)

1 A Prophet

2 Winters Bone

3 Fish Tank


5 The Kings Speech

6 Toy Story 3

7 Carlos8 The Social Network

9 Kawasakis Rose

10 The Fighter

Now Magazine


2A Prophet


4 True Grit

5 Police, Adjective

6 Inception7 127 Hours

8 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives

9 Marwencol


Now Magazine(Norman Wilner)

1 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives


3 Marwencol

4A Prophet

5 Inception

6 Police, Adjective


8 True Grit

9 How to Train your Dragon

10 Scott pilgrim vs. The World

Now Magazine(Susan G. Cole)

1 Howl

2 Mother and Child

3 The Secret in their Eyes


5 Last Train Home

6 Please Give

7 Trust

8 Life with Murder

9 Cyrus

10 Grown up Movie Star

The Observer(Philip French)


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1 Of Gods and Men


3 Inception

4A Prophet

5Another Year

6 Toy Story 3


8 Up in the Air

9 Winters Bone10 The Ghost Writer

The Onion AV Club(Noel Murray)

1 Black Swan

2 Winters Bone


4 Mother

5 The Illusionist

6 Greenberg

7 Inception

8 Carlos

9 Dogtooth

10 True Grit

The Onion AV Club(Keith Phipps)

1 Winters Bone

2 Black Swan


4 Inception

5 Toy Story 3

6 True Grit


8 Mother

9 Rabbit Hole

10 Carlos

The Onion AV Club(Nathan Rabin)

1 Blue Valentine

2 Black Swan

3 Greenberg

4 Best Worst Movie5 Inception



8 The Kings Speech

9 True Grit


The Onion AV Club(Tasha Robinson)

1 Inception



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4 Black Swan

5 Toy Story 3

6 Winters Bone

7A Prophet

8Another Year


10 Mother

The Onion AV Club(Scott Tobias)

1 Dogtooth

2 Winters Bone

3 Carlos



6 Everyone Else

7 Shutter Island

8 Mother

9 Toy Story 3

10 Restrepo

The Oregonian(Stan Hall)

1 About Elly

2 The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector

3 Down Terrace

4 Fish Tank

5 Marwencol

6 Prodigal Sons

7A Prophet8 White Material

9 The White Ribbon

10 Winters Bone

The Oregonian(Shawn Levy)

1 Babies

2 Black Swan

3 The Fighter

4 The Ghost Writer

5 Inception

6 The Illusionist

7 The Kings Speech


9A Town Called Panic

10 Winters Bone

The Oregonian(Marc Mohan)

1 127 Hours

2 The Ghost Writer

3 Im Still Here



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5 Mid-August Lunch

6A Prophet


8A Town Called Panic

9 Toy Story 3

10 Winters Bone

The Oregonian(Mike Russell)

1 127 Hours2 Black Swan

3 The Fighter

4 Inception

5 Let Me In




9 Toy Story 3

10 True Grit

Orlando Sentinel(Roger Moore)

1 127 Hours

2 The Fighter

3 The Kings Speech


5 Black Swan

6 Winters Bone


8 Rabbit Hole


10 Buried

Ottawa Citizen(Katherine Monk)


2 Black Swan

3 127 Hours



6 Inside Job7 True Grit

8 The Kings Speech

9 Kick-Ass

10 Somewhere

Ottawa Citizen(Jay Stone)


2 The Kings Speech

3 Black Swan

4 Toy Story 3


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7 Winters Bone

8 The Fighter


10 True Grit

Philadelphia Inquirer

(Steven Rea)

1 127 Hours

2 Black Swan

3 Fish Tank

4 I Am Love


6 The Kings Speech

7 Never Let Me Go

8 A Prophet


10 Winters Bone

Philadelphia Inquirer(Carrie Rickey)

1 Inside Job


3 The Kings Speech

4 My Dog Tulip

5 Night Catches Us

6 Nowhere Boy


8 Toy Story 3

9 Waiting for Superman10 Winters Bone

ReelViews(James Berardinelli)

1 The Kings Speech

2 Inception

3 True Grit

4 Toy Story 3

5 Black Swan

6 Rabbit Hole7 Flipped

8 The Millennium Trilogy


10 Love and Other Drugs

Reverse Shot(MK & JR)

1 Alamar

2 Mother

3 White Material

4 Everyone Else


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San Francisco Chronicle(Mick LaSalle)

1 Blue Valentine

2 The Ghost Writer

3 Mademoiselle Chambon

4 The Kings Speech

5 Hereafter

6 Toy Story 3


8 Black Swan


10 The Runaways

ScreenCrave

1 The Kings Speech

2 The Fighter

3Animal Kingdom

4 Blue Valentine

5 True Grit

6 Toy Story 3

7 Buried


9 Kick-Ass

10 Waiting for Superman

Slant Magazine(Nick Schager)

1 Dogtooth

2 The Ghost Writer

3 Lourdes4 Everyone Else

5 Mother


7 Vincere

8 Wild Grass

9 Carlos

10 Let Me In


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Time Magazine(Richard Corliss)

1 Toy Story 3

2 Inside Job

3 Never Let Me Go



6 Rabbit Hole

7 Wild Grass8 Green Zone

9 Waiting for Superman

10 Four Lions

Time-Out New York(David Fear)

1 Winters Bone



4Another Year



7 The Exploding Girl

8 Last Train Home

9 I Am Love

10 Enter the Void

Time-Out New York(Joshua Rothkopf)



3 Carlos

4Another Year5 Winters Bone

6 Dogtooth


8 Lourdes

9A Prophet

10 127 Hours

Time-Out New York(Keith Uhlich)

1 Wild Grass

2 The Ghost Writer

3 Step Up 3D

4 Boxing Gym

5 Shutter Island


7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

8Another Year

9 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

10 Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

The Toronto Star(Peter Howell)


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1 Incendies

2 Inside Job


4 Black Swan

5 Carlos

6 Inception

7 Toy Story 3


9 Exit Through the Gift Shop10 The Complete Metropolis

The Toronto Sun(Ken Williamson)


2 Inception

3 Winters Bone

4Animal Kingdom

5 The Ghost Writer

6 True Grit

7 Black Swan


9 The Fighter

10 Kick-Ass

The Toronto Sun(Liz Braun)


2 The Town

3 Carlos

4 The Kings Speech

5 The Fighter

6 Black Swan

7 True Grit

8 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Rebel and Activist

9 Winters Bone


The Toronto Sun(Jim Slotek)

1 Winters Bone

2 The Town


4 Marwencol

5 Restrepo

6 Kick-Ass

7 Black Swan

8 Inception

9 True Grit


USA Today(Claudia Puig)


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1 127 Hours

2 Black Swan

3 Blue Valentine

4 Inception

5 The Kings Speech

6 Please Give


8 Toy Story 3

9 True Grit10 Winters Bone

Village Voice(Simon Abrams)

1 Dogtooth

2Amer

3 Let Me In

4 Oceans

5 The Ghost Writer

6 Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired girl

7 Hadewijch


9 Lourdes

10 Black Swan

Village Voice(Melissa Anderson)

1 Carlos

2 Lourdes

3 World on a Wire

4 Lebanon


6 White Material

7Alamar

8 Night Catches Us

9 Daddy Longlegs


Village Voice(Michael Atkinson)


2 Dogtooth

3 Never Let Me Go

4 Mother

5A Prophet

6 I Am Love

7Ajami

8 Vincere

9 Monsters

10 The Good, the Bad and the Weird

Village Voice(FX Feeney)

1 The Ghost Writer

2 Road to Nowhere


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3 Inception

4 Black Swan

5 The Kings Speech

6 Fair Game

7 Winters Bone


9 127 Hours

10 Salt

Village Voice(J. Hoberman)


2 Carlos

3 The Ghost Writer

4 Lebanon

5 White Material

6 Henri-Georges Clouzots Inferno

7 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

8 The Juche Idea


10 Inception

Village Voice(Nick Pinkerton)

1 45365

2 Buried

3 The City of Your Final Destination

4 Ghost Town

5 Piranha 3D

6 The Portuguese Nun

7 The Runaways

8 Shutter Island

9 The Temptation of St. Tony

10 World on a Wire


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Barneys Version

Bedevilled

Best Worst Movie

Biker Fox

Biutiful

Black Swan

Blue Beard

Blue Valentine

Boxing Gym

Breaking Upwards

Brighton Rock

Buried

Carlos

Catfish

Certified CopyChloe

City Island

The City of Your Final Destination

Clash of the Titans

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Cold Weather

Company Men

The Complete Metropolis

Cyrus

Daddy Longlegs

Daybreakers

Despicable Me

Dogtooth

Down Terrace

Easier with Practice

Easy A

Eccentricities of a Blond-haired Girl

The Eclipse

Endhiran

Enter the Void

Everyone Else

Exit Through the Gift Shop

The Expendables

The Exploding Girl

Eyes Wide Open

Fair Game

The Father of My Children


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The Fighter

A Film Unfinished

Fish Tank

Flipped

Flooding with Love for the Kids

Four Lions

Fubar II

Get Him to the Greek

Get Low

Ghost Town

The Ghost Writer

The Girl

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Going the Distance

The Good, the Bad and the Weird

Green Zone

Greenberg

Grown Up Move Star

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench

Hadewijch

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Have You Heard from Johannesberg?

Henri-Georges Clouzots Inferno

Hereafter

How Do You Know

How to Train Your DragonHowl

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Rebel and Activist

I Am Love

I Love You Phillip Morris

Im Still Here

I Saw the Devil

Idiots and Angels

The Illusionist

Incendies

Inception

Inside Job

Iron Man 2

Its Kind of a Funny Story

Jackass 3D

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

The Juche Idea


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Kawasakis Rose

Kick-Ass

The Kids are All Right

The Killer Inside Me

The Kings Speech

Kisses

The Last Circus

The Last Excorcism

Last Train Home

Lebanon

Legends of the Guardians: The Owls ofGaHoole

Let Me In

Life During War Time

Life with Murder

Lourdes

Love and Other Drugs

Love of Hate

Machete

Made in Dagenham

Mademoiselle Chambon

Marwencol

Merantau

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Micmacs

Mid-August Lunch

The Milk of Sorrow

The Millennium Trilogy

Monsters

Mother

Mother and Child

My Dog Tulip

Never Let Me Go

Night Catches Us

No One Knows About Persian Cats

Noras Will

Nowhere Boy

Oceans

Of Gods and Men

OSS 117: Lost in Rio

The Other Guys

Our Beloved Month of August

Piranha 3D

Please Give


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Poetry

Police, Adjective

The Portuguese Nun

Precious Life

Predators

Prince of Broadway

Prodigal Sons

A Prophet

Rabbit Hole

RED

The Red Chapel

Red Riding Trilogy

Red, White and Blue

Remember Me

Restrepo

Road to Nowhere

Robin Hood

The Runaways

Salt

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

The Secret in Their Eyes

Secret Sunshine

A Serbian Film

Shutter Island

The Social Network

Somewhere

Soul Kitchen

Sound of Noise

Splice

The Square

Step Up 3D

The Strange Case of Angelica

Sweetgrass

Takers

Tangled

The Tempest

The Temptation of St. Tony

Thunder Soul

The Tillman Story

Tiny Furniture

The Tourist

The Town


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A Town Called Panic

Toy Story 3

Trash Humpers

Triage

The Trotsky

True Grit

Trust

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His PastLives

Undertow

Unstoppable

Up in the Air

Vengeance

Vincere

Waiting for Superman

The Way Back

White Material

The White Ribbon

Wild Grass

Winnebago Man

Winters Bone

World on a Wire

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Summary of 2010 Critics Top 10 Lists


2 Black Swan

3 Inception

4 Winters Bone

5 Toy Story 3

6 The Kings Speech

7 127 Hours

8 The Ghost Writer

9 Carlos


11Another Year

12 True Grit


14A Prophet

15 The Fighter



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17 Dogtooth

18 Blue Valentine

19 Inside Job

20 Let Me In

21Animal Kingdom

22 I Am Love


24 Shutter Island

25 Four Lions

26 Never Let Me Go

27 Rabbit Hole

28 Mother

29 Please Give

Here is a list of 20 Best films fromFilm Commentmagazines editors and contributors top ten lists.

This is a more international list as there is a larger selection of foreign films due to many of the contributing

critics being from different parts of the world. But notice that The Social Networkstill comes in at number two

very close behind the number one film, even on this more international list.

Film Comment Magazines Final Cut 2010 Critics Top 10

Lists

1 Carlos


3 White Material

4 The Ghost Writer

5A Prophet

6 Winters Bone

7 Inside Job

8 Wild Grass

9 Everyone Else

10 Greenberg

11 Mother

12 Toy Story 3

13 Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

14Another Year



17 Shutter Island

18Around a Small Mountain

19 Our Beloved Month of August

20 Ne change rein

The British film magazineSight & Sound: The International Film Magazine has compiled a list of top 13 film

of 2010 from its 85 contributing critics and curators. Even on this list of films compiled from a very

international group of critics and curators The Social Networkstill comes out on top. Winters Bone and Carloalso rank very high on all the three lists.

But notice that The Kings Speech, which is favoured to win the Oscar this year, is nowhere to be found on

either theFilm Commentlist or the Sight & Soundlist and only comes in at number 6 in North Americas list.


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Sight & Sound The International Film Magazines FinalTop 13 List of 2010 films compiled from 85 of its criticsand curators


2 Uncle Boonmee who can Recall His Past Lives

3Another Year

4 Carlos

5 The Arbor

6 Winters Bone

7 I Am Love

8 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

9 Film Socialisme

10 The Illusionist

11 Nostalgia for the Light

12 Poetry

13A Prophet

Documents

Film 2010 Critics Top 10