by Tony Dayoub
Last night's electrifying fuck-it-all performance by Ricky Gervais as host of the Golden Globes has prompted me to start closing the door on the cinema of 2010. This past year, I was fortunate enough to see most movies relatively early (still yet to see:
Blue Valentine,
Enter the Void,
Four Lions,
The Illusionist,
Mother,
A Prophet,
Restrepo,
Sweetgrass,
Tiny Furniture). Last week, online mag Wide Screen published my top 23 films of the year; an odd number, yes, but this was a good year for movies. I encourage readers to check the article out, where my fellow writers (including editor
Glenn Kenny,
The New York Press' Simon Abrams, MTV's Kurt Loder, Self-Styled Siren
Farran Smith Nehme,
The Village Voice's Vadim Rizov, and feature writer Karl Rozemeyer) and I discuss the recurring myth that the past year was a bad one for cinema (as well as peer into what 2011 looks like from here).
After the jump, you'll find a preview of my list highlighting the top 10 entries. When possible, I link to my past reviews of each film. More thoughts on each movie can be found in the newest issue of
Wide Screen.
