2010 Ranked

By: Justin LaLiber​ty

• 01
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 02
  Exit Through the Gift Shop
  Banksy
• 03
  White Material
  Claire Denis
• 04
  The Life and Death of a Porno Gang
  Mladen Djordjević
• 05
  Winter's Bone
  Debra Granik
• 06
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Edgar Wright
• 07
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 08
  I Saw the Devil
  Kim Jee-woon
• 09
  Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• 10
  Animal Kingdom
  David Michôd
• 11
  Another Year
  Mike Leigh
• 12
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 13
  Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape
  Jake West
• 14
  Restrepo
  Tim Hetherington
• 15
  Easy A
  Will Gluck
• 16
  Buried
  Rodrigo Cortés
• 17
  Tiny Furniture
  Lena Dunham
• 18
  The Man from Nowhere
  Lee Jeong-beom
• 19
  The Illusionist
  Sylvain Chomet
• 20
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 21
  Best Worst Movie
  Michael Stephenson
• 22
  Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
  Jalmari Helander
• 23
  Enter the Void
  Gaspar Noé
• 24
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 25
  Catfish
  Henry Joost
• 26
  Inside Job
  Charles Ferguson
• 27
  Four Lions
  Christopher Morris
• 28
  Black Death
  Christopher Smith
• 29
  The Hole
  Joe Dante
• 30
  I'm Still Here
  Casey Affleck
• 31
  Dog Pound
  Kim Chapiron
• 32
  The Strange Case of Angelica
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 33
  Piranha
  Alexandre Aja
• 34
  Blue Valentine
  Derek Cianfrance
• 35
  A Serbian Film
  Srdjan Spasojevic
• 36
  Winnebago Man
  Ben Steinbauer
• 37
  Red Hill
  Patrick Hughes
• 38
  The Fighter
  David O. Russell
• 39
  A Film Unfinished
  Yael Hersonski
• 40
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 41
  The Town
  Ben Affleck
• 42
  Kick-Ass
  Matthew Vaughn
• 43
  Rabbit Hole
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 44
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 45
  Temple Grandin
  Mick Jackson
• 46
  The American
  Anton Corbijn
• 47
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 48
  [REC] 2
  Jaume Balagueró
• 49
  Greenberg
  Noah Baumbach
• 50
  Life During Wartime
  Todd Solondz
• 51
  Micmacs
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 52
  The Killer Inside Me
  Michael Winterbottom
• 53
  GasLand
  Josh Fox
• 54
  Made in Dagenham
  Nigel Cole
• 55
  Boxing Gym
  Frederick Wiseman
• 56
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 57
  Summer Wars
  Mamoru Hosoda
• 58
  Unstoppable
  Tony Scott
• 59
  Let Me In
  Matt Reeves
• 60
  127 Hours
  Danny Boyle
• 61
  Waiting for 'Superman'
  Davis Guggenheim
• 62
  Cyrus
  Jay Duplass
• 63
  The Loved Ones
  Sean Byrne
• 64
  Machete
  Ethan Maniquis
• 65
  Tangled
  Nathan Greno
• 66
  Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  Ricki Stern
• 67
  Jack Goes Boating
  Philip Seymour Hoffman
• 68
  The Tillman Story
  Amir Bar-Lev
• 69
  Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
  Brigitte Berman
• 70
  American Grindhouse
  Elijah Drenner
• 71
  Louis C.K.: Hilarious
  Louis C.K.
• 72
  Please Give
  Nicole Holofcener
• 73
  Waking Sleeping Beauty
  Don Hahn
• 74
  Howl
  Rob Epstein
• 75
  Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
  Tamra Davis
• 76
  Bass Ackwards
  Linas Phillips
• 77
  The Kids Are All Right
  Lisa Cholodenko
• 78
  Never Let Me Go
  Mark Romanek
• 79
  Smash His Camera
  Leon Gast
• 80
  You Don't Know Jack
  Barry Levinson
• 81
  How to Train Your Dragon
  Dean DeBlois
• 82
  The Runaways
  Floria Sigismondi
• 83
  Welcome to the Rileys
  Jake Scott
• 84
  Solitary Man
  Brian Koppelman
• 85
  Get Low
  Aaron Schneider
• 86
  Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese
• 87
  The Last Exorcism
  Daniel Stamm
• 88
  Monsters
  Gareth Edwards
• 89
  Barney's Version
  Richard J. Lewis
• 90
  Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
  Alex Gibney
• 91
  Despicable Me
  Pierre Coffin
• 92
  Morning Glory
  Roger Michell
• 93
  The Way Back
  Peter Weir
• 94
  Frozen
  Adam Green
• 95
  Faster
  George Tillman Jr.
• 96
  Splice
  Vincenzo Natali
• 97
  Megamind
  Tom McGrath
• 98
  Biutiful
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 99
  F
  Johannes Roberts
• 100
  Cherry Tree Lane
  Paul Andrew Williams
• 101
  Red
  Robert Schwentke
• 102
  The Extra Man
  Shari Springer Berman
• 103
  The Expendables
  Sylvester Stallone
• 104
  The Ghost Writer
  Roman Polanski
• 105
  Youth in Revolt
  Miguel Arteta
• 106
  It's Kind of a Funny Story
  Anna Boden
• 107
  Cemetery Junction
  Ricky Gervais
• 108
  Hereafter
  Clint Eastwood
• 109
  Conviction
  Tony Goldwyn
• 110
  Fair Game
  Doug Liman
• 111
  I Love You Phillip Morris
  Glenn Ficarra
• 112
  Salt
  Phillip Noyce
• 113
  Knight and Day
  James Mangold
• 114
  Night Catches Us
  Tanya Hamilton
• 115
  The Crazies
  Breck Eisner
• 116
  Middle Men
  George Gallo
• 117
  Night of the Demons
  Adam Gierasch
• 118
  Iron Man 2
  Jon Favreau
• 119
  Green Zone
  Paul Greengrass
• 120
  Get Him to the Greek
  Nicholas Stoller
• 121
  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead
  Jordan Galland
• 122
  Predators
  Nimród Antal
• 123
  Outcast
  Colm McCarthy
• 124
  Centurion
  Neil Marshall
• 125
  Jackass 3-D
  Jeff Tremaine
• 126
  Room in Rome
  Julio Medem
• 127
  You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
  Woody Allen
• 128
  TRON: Legacy
  Joseph Kosinski
• 129
  Holy Rollers
  Kevin Asch
• 130
  The Book of Eli
  Albert Hughes
• 131
  Daybreakers
  Michael Spierig
• 132
  Hot Tub Time Machine
  Steve Pink
• 133
  Stuck!
  Steve Balderson
• 134
  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
  Oliver Stone
• 135
  Edge of Darkness
  Martin Campbell
• 136
  All Good Things
  Andrew Jarecki
• 137
  Burning Bright
  Carlos Brooks
• 138
  My Soul to Take
  Wes Craven
• 139
  I Spit on Your Grave
  Steven R. Monroe
• 140
  Love Ranch
  Taylor Hackford
• 141
  All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
  Tim Rutili
• 142
  The Other Guys
  Adam McKay
• 143
  Freakonomics
  Heidi Ewing
• 144
  From Paris with Love
  Pierre Morel
• 145
  MacGruber
  Jorma Taccone
• 146
  Death at a Funeral
  Neil LaBute
• 147
  She's Out of My League
  Jim Field Smith
• 148
  Brooklyn's Finest
  Antoine Fuqua
• 149
  The Wolfman
  Joe Johnston
• 150
  Repo Men
  Miguel Sapochnik
• 151
  Stone
  John Curran
• 152
  The Next Three Days
  Paul Haggis
• 153
  The A-Team
  Joe Carnahan
• 154
  Cop Out
  Kevin Smith
• 155
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  Samuel Bayer
• 156
  Resident Evil: Afterlife
  Paul W.S. Anderson
• 157
  Legion
  Scott Stewart
• 158
  Jonah Hex
  Jimmy Hayward
• 159
  Suicide Girls Must Die!
  Sawa Suicide
• 160
  Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives
  Israel Luna
• 161
  Alice in Wonderland
  Tim Burton
• 162
  Heartless
  Philip Ridley
• 163
  Tamara Drewe
  Stephen Frears
• 164
  Big Tits Zombie 3D
  Takao Nakano
• 165
  Red White & Blue
  Simon Rumley
• 166
  Marwencol
  Jeff Malmberg
• 167
  Amer
  Hélène Cattet
• 168
  Certified Copy
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 169
  Batman: Under the Red Hood
  Brandon Vietti
• 170
  Due Date
  Todd Phillips
• 171
  Going the Distance
  Nanette Burstein
• 172
  Aftershock
  Feng Xiaogang
• 173
  Tucker & Dale vs Evil
  Eli Craig
• 174
  Teenage Paparazzo
  Adrian Grenier
• 175
  Casino Jack
  George Hickenlooper
• 176
  The Violent Kind
  Mitchell Altieri
• 177
  In a Better World
  Susanne Bier
• 178
  Love and Other Drugs
  Edward Zwick
• 179
  Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
  Serge Bromberg
• 180
  Ip Man 2
  Wilson Yip
• 181
  The Four-Faced Liar
  Jacob Chase
• 182
  The Housemaid
  Im Sang-soo
• 183
  Prey
  Antoine Blossier
• 184
  Public Speaking
  Martin Scorsese
• 185
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  David Yates