127 Hours

directed by Danny Boyle

8

21 Grams

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

09

9

24 Hour Party People

directed by Michael Winterbottom

05

8.5

28 Days Later

directed by Danny Boyle

06

9

(500) Days of Summer

directed by Marc Webb

9.5

Adaptation.

directed by Spike Jonze

11

9.5

Adventureland

directed by Greg Mottola

8.5

Amelia

directed by Mira Nair

2.5

Americanizing the Millennium trilogy

directed by

Antichrist

directed by Lars von Trier

6

The Art of the Steal

directed by Don Argott

8

Atonement

directed by Joe Wright

9

Away We Go

directed by Sam Mendes

8.5

Babel

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

9.5

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

directed by Werner Herzog

6

The Big Lebowski

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

01

9.5

Black & Blue: The Best of 2010

directed by

Black Swan

directed by Darren Aronofsky

9.5

Blue Valentine

directed by Derek Cianfrance

9

Brick

directed by Rian Johnson

8.5

Bright Star

directed by Jane Campion

8.5

Broken Embraces

directed by Pedro Almodóvar

7.5

Brothers

directed by Jim Sheridan

8

The Brothers Bloom

directed by Rian Johnson

8

Burn After Reading

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

9

Chéri

directed by Stephen Frears

3

Choke

directed by Clark Gregg

8

The Class

directed by Laurent Cantet

8.5

Coco Before Chanel

directed by Anne Fontaine

8

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinksy

directed by Jan Kounen

6

Crazy Heart

directed by Scott Cooper

8

Cyrus

directed by Jay & Mark Duplass

8.5

The Darjeeling Limited

directed by Wes Anderson

8.5

Death at a Funeral

directed by Frank Oz

7.5

Doubt

directed by John Patrick Shanley

8

Eagle vs Shark

directed by Taika Cohen

7

Easy Virtue

directed by Stephan Elliott

5

An Education

directed by Lone Scherfig

7

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

directed by Michel Gondry

10

9

Fantastic Mr. Fox

directed by Wes Anderson

14

9

Fargo

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

17

10

Fight Club

directed by David Fincher

15

9.5

Food, Inc.

directed by Robert Kenner

9

Frost/Nixon

directed by Ron Howard

7

Get Low

directed by Aaron Schneider

7.5

The Ghost Writer

directed by Roman Polanski

6.5

The Girl on the Train

directed by André Téchiné

6.5

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

directed by Daniel Alfredson

7

The Girl Who Played with Fire

directed by Daniel Alfredson

7.5

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

directed by Niels Arden Oplev

9

The Girlfriend Experience

directed by Steven Soderbergh

2

Gomorrah

directed by Matteo Garrone

3.5

Greenberg

directed by Noah Baumbach

9

Hamlet 2

directed by Andrew Fleming

4

Hot Fuzz

directed by Edgar Wright

03

9.5

The Hurt Locker

directed by Kathryn Bigelow

8.5

I’ve Loved You So Long

directed by Philippe Claudel

8

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

directed by Terry Gilliam

6

In Bruges

directed by Martin McDonagh

08

9

In the Loop

directed by Armando Iannucci

8.5

Inception

directed by Christopher Nolan

9.5

The Informant!

directed by Steven Soderbergh

8

Inglourious Basterds

directed by Quentin Tarantino

13

9.5

Into the Wild

directed by Sean Penn

9

Is Anybody There?

directed by John Crowley

8.5

It Might Get Loud

directed by Davis Guggenheim

9

Jack Goes Boating

directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman

7

Julie & Julia

directed by Nora Ephron

7

Juno

directed by Jason Reitman

07

9.5

KC’s Top 10 Films of the Decade

directed by

The Kids Are All Right

directed by Lisa Cholodenko

7

The King’s Speech

directed by Tom Hooper

8

The Last Station

directed by Michael Hoffman

8

Let the Right One In

directed by Tomas Alfredson

8.5

Let’s hear it for the little guys

directed by

Letters to Juliet

directed by Gary Winick

4

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

directed by Wes Anderson

02

9

The Limits of Control

directed by Jim Jarmusch

5

Lorna’s Silence

directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

7.5

Mao’s Last Dancer

directed by Bruce Beresford

7

Me & Mr. Fincher

directed by

Micmacs

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

8.5

Milk

directed by Gus Van Sant

8

Moon

directed by Duncan Jones

9

Never Let Me Go

directed by Mark Romanek

7.5

Nick’s Top 10 Films of the Decade

directed by

No Country for Old Men

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

12

10

Observe and Report

directed by Jody Hill

8

Once

directed by John Carney

8.5

Paper Heart

directed by Nicholas Jasenovec

8

Paris 36

directed by Christophe Barratier

8.5

Please Give

directed by Nicole Holofcener

8

Precious

directed by Lee Daniels

8

A Prophet

directed by Jacques Audiard

9

Public Enemies

directed by Michael Mann

7.5

The Reader

directed by Stephen Daldry

7.5

Reign Over Me

directed by Mike Binder

7.5

Revolutionary Road

directed by Sam Mendes

9

Running with Scissors

directed by Ryan Murphy

7

The Science of Sleep

directed by Michel Gondry

9

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

directed by Edgar Wright

9

The Secret in Their Eyes

directed by Juan José Campanella

9

The September Issue

directed by R.J. Cutler

7

A Serious Man

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

8.5

Sex, Violence and the MPAA Ratings

directed by

Shall We Kiss?

directed by Emmanuel Mouret

7

Short Q&A with John C. Reilly

directed by

Shutter Island

directed by Martin Scorsese

7

Sin Nombre

directed by Cary Fukunaga

8.5

A Single Man

directed by Tom Ford

8.5

Slumdog Millionaire

directed by Danny Boyle

7

Smart People

directed by Noam Murro

8

The Social Network

directed by David Fincher

9

Solitary Man

directed by Brian Koppelman & David Levien

6.5

The Soloist

directed by Joe Wright

6.5

Stranger Than Fiction

directed by Marc Forster

8

Sugar

directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

8.5

Summer Hours

directed by Olivier Assayas

8

Sunshine

directed by Danny Boyle

8.5

Sunshine Cleaning

directed by Christine Jeffs

7.5

Synecdoche, New York

directed by Charlie Kaufman

8

Taking Woodstock

directed by Ang Lee

7

Ten Holiday Films: Classic & Overlooked

directed by

There Will Be Blood

directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

04

10

The Town

directed by Ben Affleck

9

Trainspotting

directed by Danny Boyle

16

9.5

True Grit

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

7

Up in the Air

directed by Jason Reitman

9.5

The Wackness

directed by Jonathan Levine

9

Waltz with Bashir

directed by Ari Folman

6.5

Whatever Works

directed by Woody Allen

6.5

Where the Wild Things Are

directed by Spike Jonze

8.5

The White Ribbon

directed by Michael Haneke

8.5

Winter Passing

directed by Adam Rapp

8

Winter’s Bone

directed by Debra Granik

8.5

The Wrestler

directed by Darren Aronofsky

8

Y Tu Mamá También

directed by Alfonso Cuarón

8.5

Youth in Revolt

directed by Miguel Arteta

8.5