Films of 2010, Ranked

By: Catheri​ne Krummey

(updated 5/3/13)

Missing from The Auteurs’ database: Wartorn: 1861-2010 (would go between Public Speaking and LennonNYC), Alice: A Look into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (between Alice in Wonderland and Date Night), Coyote Jump (between Date Night and Salt), Inferno: The Making of The Expendables (between Conviction and Flipped) and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (dir. Daryn Tufts; between A Little Help and The Tourist).

• 01
  Beginners
  Mike Mills
• 02
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 03
  Blue Valentine
  Derek Cianfrance
• 04
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 05
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 06
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  David Yates
• 07
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Edgar Wright
• 08
  Tuba Atlantic
  Hallvar Witzø
• 09
  It's Kind of a Funny Story
  Anna Boden
• 10
  Biutiful
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 11
  The King's Speech
  Tom Hooper
• 12
  The Kids Are All Right
  Lisa Cholodenko
• 13
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 14
  Never Let Me Go
  Mark Romanek
• 15
  And Everything Is Going Fine
  Steven Soderbergh
• 16
  The Ghost Writer
  Roman Polanski
• 17
  Going the Distance
  Nanette Burstein
• 18
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 19
  The Town
  Ben Affleck
• 20
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 21
  Jack Goes Boating
  Philip Seymour Hoffman
• 22
  Kick-Ass
  Matthew Vaughn
• 23
  The Eastwood Factor
  Richard Schickel
• 24
  Day & Night
  Teddy Newton
• 25
  A Letter to Elia
  Martin Scorsese
• 26
  Tiny Furniture
  Lena Dunham
• 27
  Waiting for 'Superman'
  Davis Guggenheim
• 28
  The Trip
  Michael Winterbottom
• 29
  If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
  Spike Lee
• 30
  I'm Here
  Spike Jonze
• 31
  Music by Prudence
  Roger Ross Williams
• 32
  Another Year
  Mike Leigh
• 33
  happythankyoumoreplease
  Josh Radnor
• 34
  127 Hours
  Danny Boyle
• 35
  The Fighter
  David O. Russell
• 36
  The American
  Anton Corbijn
• 37
  Public Speaking
  Martin Scorsese
• 38
  LennoNYC
  Michael Epstein
• 39
  Winter's Bone
  Debra Granik
• 40
  Restrepo
  Tim Hetherington
• 41
  Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
  Ricki Stern
• 42
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 43
  Rabbit Hole
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 44
  Sarah's Key
  Gilles Paquet-Brenner
• 45
  Somewhere
  Sofia Coppola
• 46
  Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese
• 47
  You Don't Know Jack
  Barry Levinson
• 48
  Red
  Robert Schwentke
• 49
  How to Train Your Dragon
  Dean DeBlois
• 50
  Inside Job
  Charles Ferguson
• 51
  Hereafter
  Clint Eastwood
• 52
  Howl
  Rob Epstein
• 53
  Iron Man 2
  Jon Favreau
• 54
  Lennon Naked
  Edmund Coulthard
• 55
  Robin Hood
  Ridley Scott
• 56
  Casino Jack
  George Hickenlooper
• 57
  Green Zone
  Paul Greengrass
• 58
  Youth in Revolt
  Miguel Arteta
• 59
  Greenberg
  Noah Baumbach
• 60
  Easy A
  Will Gluck
• 61
  Tamara Drewe
  Stephen Frears
• 62
  Due Date
  Todd Phillips
• 63
  The Special Relationship
  Richard Loncraine
• 64
  Despicable Me
  Pierre Coffin
• 65
  Time Freak
  Andrew Bowler
• 66
  The Runaways
  Floria Sigismondi
• 67
  The Conspirator
  Robert Redford
• 68
  Exit Through the Gift Shop
  Banksy
• 69
  Freakonomics
  Heidi Ewing
• 70
  Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• 71
  Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• 72
  Trotteur
  Arnaud Brisebois
• 73
  The Company Men
  John Wells
• 74
  Animal Kingdom
  David Michôd
• 75
  The Whistleblower
  Larysa Kondracki
• 76
  Love and Other Drugs
  Edward Zwick
• 77
  Morning Glory
  Roger Michell
• 78
  Made in Dagenham
  Nigel Cole
• 79
  Janie Jones
  David M. Rosenthal
• 80
  London Boulevard
  William Monahan
• 81
  Please Give
  Nicole Holofcener
• 82
  Get Him to the Greek
  Nicholas Stoller
• 83
  How Do You Know
  James L. Brooks
• 84
  Welcome to the Rileys
  Jake Scott
• 85
  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
  Oliver Stone
• 86
  TRON: Legacy
  Joseph Kosinski
• 87
  Holy Rollers
  Kevin Asch
• 88
  Eat, Pray, Love
  Ryan Murphy
• 89
  Just Wright
  Sanaa Hamri
• 90
  Date Night
  Shawn Levy
• 91
  The Extra Man
  Shari Springer Berman
• 92
  Barney's Version
  Richard J. Lewis
• 93
  Alice in Wonderland
  Tim Burton
• 94
  Mary Last Seen
  Sean Durkin
• 95
  Salt
  Phillip Noyce
• 96
  Heartbreaker
  Pascal Chaumeil
• 97
  Griff the Invisible
  Leon Ford
• 98
  Country Strong
  Shana Feste
• 99
  Megamind
  Tom McGrath
• 100
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
  Michael Apted
• 101
  Cemetery Junction
  Ricky Gervais
• 102
  Secretariat
  Randall Wallace
• 103
  For Colored Girls
  Tyler Perry
• 104
  Let Me In
  Matt Reeves
• 105
  Cyrus
  Jay Duplass
• 106
  Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
  Troy Nixey
• 107
  Wild Target
  Jonathan Lynn
• 108
  Catfish
  Henry Joost
• 109
  Tangled
  Nathan Greno
• 110
  The Tempest
  Julie Taymor
• 111
  Cop Out
  Kevin Smith
• 112
  The Housemaid
  Im Sang-soo
• 113
  Ceremony
  Max Winkler
• 114
  Conviction
  Tony Goldwyn
• 115
  Flipped
  Rob Reiner
• 116
  Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
  Zack Snyder
• 117
  The Killer Inside Me
  Michael Winterbottom
• 118
  The High Cost of Living
  Deborah Chow
• 119
  Barry Munday
  Chris D'Arienzo
• 120
  Babies
  Thomas Balmès
• 121
  The Karate Kid
  Harald Zwart
• 122
  You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
  Woody Allen
• 123
  A Little Help
  Michael J. Weithorn
• 124
  The Tourist
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 125
  The Next Three Days
  Paul Haggis
• 126
  Grown Ups
  Dennis Dugan
• 127
  Letters to Juliet
  Gary Winick
• 128
  Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
  Lauren Montgomery
• 129
  Trust
  David Schwimmer
• 130
  Sex and the City 2
  Michael Patrick King
• 131
  Predators
  Nimród Antal
• 132
  The Wolfman
  Joe Johnston
• 133
  She's Out of My League
  Jim Field Smith
• 134
  Extraordinary Measures
  Tom Vaughan
• 135
  Our Family Wedding
  Rick Famuyiwa
• 136
  Valentine's Day
  Garry Marshall
• 137
  Shrek Forever After
  Mike Mitchell
• 138
  Leap Year
  Anand Tucker
• 139
  The Other Guys
  Adam McKay
• 140
  Machete
  Ethan Maniquis
• 141
  Knight and Day
  James Mangold
• 142
  Alpha and Omega
  Anthony Bell
• 143
  Hot Tub Time Machine
  Steve Pink
• 144
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  Jon Turteltaub
• 145
  The Switch
  Josh Gordon
• 146
  Teenage Paparazzo
  Adrian Grenier
• 147
  Insidious
  James Wan
• 148
  The Last Song
  Julie Anne Robinson
• 149
  You Again
  Andy Fickman
• 150
  Repo Men
  Miguel Sapochnik
• 151
  From Paris with Love
  Pierre Morel
• 152
  The Losers
  Sylvain White
• 153
  Dinner for Schmucks
  Jay Roach
• 154
  Edge of Darkness
  Martin Campbell
• 155
  Takers
  John Luessenhop
• 156
  Stone
  John Curran
• 157
  Burlesque
  Steven Antin
• 158
  When in Rome
  Mark Steven Johnson
• 159
  Lottery Ticket
  Erik White
• 160
  Gulliver's Travels
  Rob Letterman
• 161
  The A-Team
  Joe Carnahan
• 162
  The Book of Eli
  Albert Hughes
• 163
  Little Fockers
  Paul Weitz
• 164
  Life as We Know It
  Greg Berlanti
• 165
  Death at a Funeral
  Neil LaBute
• 166
  Buried
  Rodrigo Cortés
• 167
  Unstoppable
  Tony Scott
• 168
  Paranormal Activity 2
  Tod Williams
• 169
  Killers
  Robert Luketic
• 170
  The Crazies
  Breck Eisner
• 171
  Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
  Chris Columbus
• 172
  The Expendables
  Sylvester Stallone
• 173
  Centurion
  Neil Marshall
• 174
  The Bounty Hunter
  Andy Tennant
• 175
  Marmaduke
  Tom Dey
• 176
  MacGruber
  Jorma Taccone
• 177
  Charlie St. Cloud
  Burr Steers
• 178
  My Soul to Take
  Wes Craven
• 179
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  Mike Newell
• 180
  Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
  Brad Peyton
• 181
  Remember Me
  Allen Coulter
• 182
  Dear John
  Lasse Hallström
• 183
  Why Did I Get Married Too?
  Tyler Perry
• 184
  Tooth Fairy
  Michael Lembeck
• 185
  Yogi Bear
  Eric Brevig
• 186
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  Samuel Bayer
• 187
  The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
  David Slade
• 188
  Legion
  Scott Stewart
• 189
  The Last Airbender
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 190
  Devil
  Drew Dowdle
• 191
  Clash of the Titans
  Louis Leterrier
• 192
  Jonah Hex
  Jimmy Hayward
• 193
  Skyline
  Colin Strause
• 194
  Piranha
  Alexandre Aja