My favorites of 2010

By: Jirin

For purposes of this list, ‘2010 films’ means ‘Films first released in America in 2010’. Because that’s what affects the films’ availability to me.

• 01
  Dogtooth
  Giorgos Lanthimos
• 02
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 03
  Winter's Bone
  Debra Granik
• 04
  I Am Love
  Luca Guadagnino
• 05
  Enter the Void
  Gaspar Noé
• 06
  Lebanon
  Samuel Maoz
• 07
  White Material
  Claire Denis
• 08
  Last Train Home
  Lixin Fan
• 09
  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  Edgar Wright
• 10
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 11
  Please Give
  Nicole Holofcener
• 12
  Black Swan
  Darren Aronofsky
• 13
  Rabbit Hole
  John Cameron Mitchell
• 14
  Kick-Ass
  Matthew Vaughn
• 15
  Machete
  Ethan Maniquis
• 16
  Four Lions
  Christopher Morris
• 17
  Mother
  Bong Joon-ho
• 18
  Cyrus
  Jay Duplass
• 19
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 20
  Greenberg
  Noah Baumbach
• 21
  The Town
  Ben Affleck
• 22
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 23
  Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 24
  True Grit
  Ethan Coen
• 25
  The Ghost Writer
  Roman Polanski
• 26
  Alamar
  Pedro González-Rubio
• 27
  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  Niels Arden Oplev