Overstreet’s Favorite Films: 2010

Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from 2010.

In order to understand the color-coding, the purpose, and meaning of this list, please read my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here.

Red = Treasures
Purple = Favorites
Blue = Achievements
Gray = Decent/Noteworthy
Green = Unseen or Undecided
*** = This film was discovered after the year in question and added in a list revision.**

2010

The Secret of Kells* (two-part review: Pt. 1, Pt. 2)
Toy Story 3 (review)True Grit* (review)
Winter’s Bone (review)
The Social Network (review)
Another Year* (some comments)
Four Lions (a brief review)
Waste Land (review)
Lourdes*
Please Give
Somewhere*
Babies (review)
Mary and Max*
The King’s Speech (review)
Dogtooth*
Never Let Me Go (a brief review)
Summer Wars*
The Oath
Carlos*
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (2-part review)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
Cave of Forgotten Dreams* (review)
How to Train Your Dragon
Shutter Island
L’Illusioniste*
I Am Love*
The Exploding Girl
Micmacs

Inception (2-part review: Pt. 1, Pt. 2)
Exit Through the Gift Shop*
Rabbit Hole
Ondine
The Way Back*
The Kids Are All Right
Blue Valentine
The Ghost Writer
Let Me In
The Town
Animal Kingdom
Everything Must Go*
127 Hours (review)
Tangled
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Iron Man 2
Black Swan (review)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader (review)
The Fighter (review)
Morning Glory
The Wolfman (review)
Incendies*
Greenberg
Stone (review)
The American
Rubber*

As-yet Unseen or Unratable Films of 2010: 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike) A Letter to Elia (Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones) A Sad Trumpet Ballad A Small Act All Good Things Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari) Audrey the Trainwreck (Frank V. Ross) Aurora (Cristi Puiu) Bach & Friends Bal Barney’s Version Baseball: The Tenth Inning Beautiful Boy Bill Cunningham New York Biutiful Black Venus Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman) Buried Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff Catfish Cold Weather (Aaron Katz) Coyote Falls Curling (Denis Côté) Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass) Daddy Longlegs, or Go Get Some Rosemary (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie) Date Night Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame Drei Easy A Edge of Darkness El Sicario Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi) Essential Killing Exporting Raymond Fair Game Flipped Fur of Flying Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller) Green Zone Happy Few Happy, Happy Hereafter (Clint Eastwood) Holy Rollers How Do You Know (James L. Brooks) I Saw the Devil (Kim Jee-woon) I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-Ke) In a Better World Inside Job I’m Still Here Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work Kaboom (Gregg Araki) Knight and Day L’amour fou La pecora nera Life, Above All Little Fockers Louder Than a Bomb Made in Dagenham Marwencol Megamind Mighty Uke Miral Monsters Noi credevamo Norwegian Wood Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Open Five (Kentucker Audley) Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb) Piranha (Alexander Aja) Post Mortem Potiche Predators (Nimród Antal) Promises Written in Water Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield) Rabid Rider Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Red Rejoice and Shout Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson) Restrepo Robin Hood Scrappers Secretariat Shrek Forever After Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko) Sons of the Pioneers 75th Anniversary Show, Volume 1 Step Up 3D Stop-Motion Marvels! Tamara Drewe The Company Men (John Wells)Easy A (Will Gluck) The Conspirator The Crazies (Breck Eisner) The Ditch The Edge The Extra Man The First Grader The Killer Inside Me The Losers The Other Guys (Adam McKay) The Passion The Princess of Montpensier The Runaways The Solitude of Prime Numbers The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira) The Tillman Story The Tourist Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham) Trust Tuesday After Christmas (Radu Muntean) Un homme qui crie Unstoppable (Tony Scott) Waiting for ‘Superman’ Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Welcome to the Rileys Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

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