Top 10 Films of 2010

1. "Kynodontas" (Giorgos Lanthimos, Greece)

2. "The Edge" (Aleksey Uchitel, Russia) 

3. "Año bisiesto" (Michael Rowe, Mexico)

4. "The Way Back" (Peter Weir, USA)

5. "Winter's Bone" (Debra Granik, USA)

6. "The Housemaid" (Im Sang-Soo, South Korea)

7. "Silent Souls" (Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia)

8. "Attenberg" (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece)

9. "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (Banksy, UK)

10. "Tamara Drewe" (Stephen Frears, UK)

Other great films:

10 1/2 (Canada)

2 fois une femme (Canada)

Les 7 jours du talion (Canada)

À l'origine d'un cri (Canada)

The American

Les Amours imaginaires (Canada)

Another Year (UK)
Arthur et la Guerre des deux mondes (France)

Au fond des bois (France)

Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec (France)

Barney's Version (Canada)

Bedways (Germany)

Biutiful (Mexico)

Bo (Belgium)

Le Bruit des glacons (France)

Bus Palladium (France)

Cabotins (Canada)

Carlos (France)

Le Cœur d'Auschwitz (Canada)

Cosa voglio di piu (Italy)

Crime d'amour (France)

D'Amour et d'eau fraiche (France)

La Dernière fugue (Canada)
Des hommes et des dieux (France)
Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame (Hong Kong)
Dirty Girl

Ella (Peru)

Enter The Void

Essential Killing (Poland)

The Fighter

Film Socialisme (France)

Gainsbourg (France)

Gandu (India)

Gasland

The Ghost Writer

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hors la loi (Algeria)
How To Train Your Dragon

In A Better World (Denmark) 
Incendies (Canada)
Inception
Inside Job
Iron Man 2

Jestem twoj (Poland)

The Kids Are All Right

The King's Speech (UK)

Kochegar (Russia)

Last Flight Of The Flamingo (Mozambique)

Life Love Lust (Spain)

Lignes ennemies (Canada)

Lisanka (Cuba)

Love And Other Drugs

Machete

Manon Lescaut (France)

Meat (Holland)

Memories Of Overdevelopment (Cuba)

Mes cheres etudes (France)

Never Let Me Go (UK)

Le Nom des gens (France)

The Outrage (Japan)

Pepperminta (Switzerland)

Piché – Entre ciel et terre (Canada)

Piranha 3D

Pornstar Superheroes

Portraits In A Sea Of Lies (Colombia)
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time

La Princesse de Montpensier (France)

Red White And Blue

Restrepo

Room In Rome (Spain)

Rose c'est Paris (France)

Run If You Can (Germany)

Salt

Le Sentiment de la chair (France)

Shutter Island

Les Signes vitaux (Canada)

The Social Network

Somewhere

Speed

Splice (Canada)

Srpski film (Serbia)

Stolen Dreams (Brazil)

Stoya Perfect Picture

Stricken (Holland)

Summer Coda (Australia)

Tangled
La Tête en friche (France)

Thelma Louise et Chantal (France)
Toy Story 3

Trois temps après la mort d'Anna (Canada)
The Trotsky (Canada)

The Truce (Russia)
True Grit

Tuesday After Christmas (Romania)

Unstoppable

Venus noire (France)

Viva Riva (Congo)

Year Of The Carnivore (Canada)

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger

Short Top 3:

1. "Recompence" (Ronny Carlsson, Sweden)

3. "God Of Love" (Luke Matheny, USA)

2. "Here I Am" (Bálint Szimler, Hungary)

Other great shorts:

The Crush (Ireland)
Félix et Malou (Canada)

I'M Here
Na Wewe (Belgium)
Negativipeg (Canada)
Only Sound Remains (Iran)

Opasatica (Canada)
Original Sin (Canada)

Pobaw sie ze mna (Poland)
Sophie Lavoie (Canada)
That Thing You Drew (UK)

Vapor (Canada)
The Warriors Of Qiugang (China)

Wendy And Judy
Wish 143 (UK)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Firework" (Dave Meyers, Kathy Perry)

2. "Born Free" (Romaine Gavras, M.I.A.)

3. "Telephone" (Jonas Akerlund, Lady Gaga)

Other great music videos:

California Gurls
Get Some (Sweden)

Listenin' To The Records On My Wall

Twin Flames

Watching The Planets

Top Commercial:

"The Man Your Man Could Smell Like" (Tom Kuntz, Old Spice)

TV Top 5:

1. "Breaking Bad: Season 3" (AMC)

2. "Downton Abbey: Season 1" (ITV)

3. "The Walking Dead: Season 1" (AMC)

4. "Boardwalk Empire: Season 1" (HBO)

5. "Weeds: Season 6" (Showtime)

Other great TV shows:

Lost: Season 6
Mad Men: Season 4

Cartoon Top 3:

1. "Madagascar carnet de voyage" (Bastien Dubois, France)

2. "Let's Pollute" (Geefwee Boedoe, USA)

3. "Higglety Pigglety Pop" (Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Canada)

Other great cartoons:

The Gruffalo (UK)

Princesse (Canada)

Weak films of 2010:

127 Hours
Abacus And Sword (Japan)
Alice In Wonderland
Animal Kingdom (Australia)
L'Appat (Canada)

L'Arnacoeur (France)
Le Baiser du barbu (Canada)
The Belgrade Phantom (Serbia)
Beloved Berlin Wall (Germany)
Between Two Worlds (Sri Lanka)
Black Swan

Blue Valentine
Box The Hakamada Case (Japan)
Casual Connection (Russia)
Chantrapas (Georgia)
Chatroom (UK)
Cinco dias sin Nora (Mexico)
La Cité (Canada)
Clash Of The Titans
Curling (Canada)
Des Filles en noir (France)
Despicable Me
An Earthy Paradise For The Eyes (Czech Republic)

Elle s'appelait Sarah (France)
Les Emotifs anonymes (France)
L'Enfant prodige (Canada)
A Espada e a Rosa (Portugal)
Fair Game
Filière 13 (Canada)
Fubar II (Canada)
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Sweden)

Greenberg
Der Grosse Kater (Switzerland)
Hereafter

I Am Love (Italy)
L'Illusioniste (France)
Inshite Miru (Japan)
Jaffa (Israel)
Joseph et la fille (France)
Le Journal d'Aurélie Laflamme (Canada)
Journal d'un coopérant (Canada)
Kerity la maison des contes (France)
Killers
Knight And Day
Korkoro (France)
The Last Airbender
Let Me In
Looking For Eric (UK)
Mammuth (France)
Martin At Dawn (Mexico)
Monsters
Nannerl la soeur de Mozart (France)
New Denmark (Canada)
Nowhere Boy (UK)
Oscar et la dame en rose (Belgium)
Oxygen (Belgium)
Les Petits mouchoirs (France)
Le Poil de la bête (Canada)
Potiche (France)
Preludio (Mexico)
Question In Details (Hungary)
Rabbit Hole
Red
The Red Spot (Japan)
Rendez-vous avec un ange (France)
Reste avec moi (Canada)
Robin Hood

Route 132 (Canada)
Sex And The City 2
Shrek Forever After
Sigwa (Philippines)
Skyline
Sword Of Desperation (Japan)

The Tempest
Tête de turc (France)
The Tourist

Tournée (France)
The Town
The Tree (Australia)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)
Waste Land (Brazil)
Wenecja (Poland)
The Wild Hunt (Canada)

Wszystko co kocham (Poland)
Y'en aura pas de facile (Canada)

Weak shorts:

7.57 am-pm (France)
Cabossés (France)
Catherine (Canada)
Cheveu (France)
Climax (France)
The Confession (UK)
Dolorès (Canada)
File Under Miscellaneous (Canada)
First Aid (Israel)
Les Fleurs de l'age (Canada)
Le Fleuve à droite (Canada)
The Gold Mine (Mexico)
Hommage a Eric Rohmer (Switzerland)
Impossible (Canada)
Jonathan et Gabrielle (Canada)
Kill Brass
Marius Borodine (Canada)
Mokhtar (Morocco)
Out Of Zinc
Les Poissons (Canada)
Poudre (Canada)
Reign Of Terror (Canada)
Sisters (France)
Summer Days Are Longer (Mexico)

Weak cartoons:

Le Cirque (Canada)
Day And Night
Lipsett Diaries (Canada)
The Lost Thing
Prep And Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Strips (Canada)
Tick Tock Tale
La Tranchée (Canada)
La Traversée (Canada)

Top Musical of 2010

"Gainsbourg" (Joann Sfar, France)

The Edge (2010) *****

Kynodontas (2010) *****

Le Nom des gens (2010) ****

The Way Back (2010) ****

An inspiring drama directed by Peter Weir, based on a real-life story recounted by Captain Rupert Mayne, a British intelligence officer in Calcutta, who in 1942 interviewed three emaciated men, who have escaped from a Soviet gulag and walked across Siberian forests, Mongolian deserts and Himalayan mountains. The same story has been told in the 1956 bestselling novel "The Long Walk" by Slawomir Rawicz (who falsely claimed that it happened to him).

Gandu (2010) ****

Winter's Bone (2010) ****

Amazingly insightful, scarily realistic portrait of a rural, white-trash, hillbilly Ozark community devastated by methamphetamine, cruelty, betrayal, suspicion and despair. But the film isn't about despair, but about the most basic and elementary kind of courage - the kind a 17-year-old girl must have to face an unforgiving world where her mother is mentally unstable, her younger siblings need food, and her father has just skipped bail (putting their house as collateral). She will either find him, dead or alive, or face eviction. Jennifer Lawrence is amazing in the lead role and the film won the top prizes at the Sundance Film Festival.

Pepperminta (2010) ****

Tamara Drewe (2010) ****

Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) ****

Attenberg (2010) ****

Silent Souls (2010) ****

The Housemaid (2010) ****

Año bisiesto (2010) ****

Toy Story 3 (2010) ****

Terrific Disney-Pixar cartoon about toys mistakingly sent to a daycare center.

The Social Network (2010) ***

The epic tale of the founding of Facebook by Harvard undergrad Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg). Aaron Sorkin's incredibly witty screenplay drips with clever one-liners and killer repartees. Best lines: "Do you think I deserve your full attention? (...) You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Did I adequately answer your condescending question?", "Sorry, my Prada is at the cleaners, along with my hoodie and my 'fuck you' flip-flops, you pretentious douche bag!", "We lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we're gonna live on the internet!", "I think we should just be friends (...) I don't want friends (...) I was being polite, I had no intention of being friends with you" and "As for the charges, I believe I deserve some recognition from this board (...) I'm sorry? (...) Yes (...) I don't understand (...) Which part?". Director David Fincher ("Se7en", "Fight Club") has taken a potentially unfilmmable story and turned it into a fast-paced, exciting and instinctively perceptive film. Justin Timerlake is particularly impressive as Napster's co-founder Sean Parker.

La Tête en friche (2010) ***

Profoundly moving French film about an unusual friendship between an uneducated and simple-minded worker (Gérard Depardieu) and an erudite old lady from a nursing home. A simple tale about human decency. Surprisingly funny and very touching.

Portraits In A Sea Of Lies (2010) ***

Tragic drama from Colombia, about a young girl whose entire family was killed by paramilitary thugs.  Spanish title: "Retratos en un mar de mentiras".

Iron Man 2 (2010) ***

The best of all "Iron Man" films.

Never Let Me Go (2010) ***

Strange little film about children raised to be donors of their body parts. With Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Charlotte Rampling and Sally Hawkins.

Piranha 3D (2010) ***

Love And Other Drugs (2010) ***