Makes me excited to see BIUTIFUL, makes me apprehensive about SOMEWHERE, and dissuades me from seeing PHILIP MORRIS.

Agree with you about SOCIAL, though it falls just outside my Top 10, and also about Jennifer Lawrence and Natalie Portman. Disagree regarding MOTHER and VALHALLA. I may be a bit harsh on MOTHER (formally off-the-charts, but way too long/not tight enough), but VALHALLA was a hardship from minute one.

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personally, im wondering where Uncle Bonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives is at?!

also, EASY A??? fucking terrible. so cliched. john hughes rip off. and can somebody tell me why they have a black adopted son? cheap nonsense.

For those that say we don\’t cover or like foreign films. Here\’s my top 10 list from last year.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/01/playlists-best-films-of-2009-editors.html
here\’s my top 10 from 2008
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/01/playlists-top-20-films-of-2008.html(ps, i might have connected with foreign films as much this year, but uhh, my #1 pick of the year is a foreign film).

@rourke, Uncle Bonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives is technically a 2011 film as it will come out in March in the U.S. We follow U.S. release dates.

@[A] There\’s no 2009 films on this list as going by U.S. release date rules, this is fact. A prophet was something we initially thought was a 2009 release earlier in the year, but it\’s definitely 2010 by U.S. release standards.

What other silly stuff to address. @Jan Meaning of underrated. Maybe you don\’t understand the meaning of things being relative. Yes, i can put a film on my list and then put in the underrated section. #1 i can because it\’s my list, not yours, #2 because just because the American or the Clouzot doc are here doesn\’t mean they\’re not underrated by the film community at large (they are).

Lastly, don\’t be disappointed by any of the lists, they\’re for the writer it was written by, not for you.

Thanks for the kind words hackattack, much appreciated. In the immortal words of actors wearing leather gloves during interviews, \”haters give me strength.\”

The fact that he doesn\’t have a lot of foreign films should state more about the world of foreign film than his own personal taste. The guy is not afraid to promote foreign films on his site at all (which says a lot compared to all of the other blogs that we read).

And EASY A did more for the female comedy genre than any film in the past 5 years. For a year that lacked comedy, it was by far the best in the genre (sorry phoenix/affleck).

Great list as always. Keep inspiring the Underdogs.

I think 127 Hours is following in the footsteps of Into the Wild. That was the film a few years ago that floored me (especially the ending), but then got totally ignored come awards season. I thought Emile Hirsch could have totally won Best Actor dispite his age.

I really hope Christian Bale wins. It\’s the best performance of his career so far.

One more observation is Oscars\’ two frontrunners (The Social Network and The King\’s Speech) are nowhere to be found.

Okay, maybe you\’re one of the types who like sad, emotional films, but it got the movie did get a 6.9. I\’d say Tim Burton did a very good job in doing the movie and it was very wrong of you to write like that. Really.

Just because it\’s fantasy doesn\’t mean that it is bad. Movies differ from Genre to Genre. What do you suggest of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows then, hmm?

I like every movie you suggested. But, people go too emotional and impressed on sad films. I wish everyone stop that and appreciate other genres too.

True, the way they portray the movies is very cool and awesome, but please……., don\’t write anything without knowing the actual opinions of other different people.

Good list, though. The part that\’s \’legit\’

You said \”Yes, i can put a film on my list and then put in the underrated section.\”

Of course, I completely agree. I\’m talking about all of the other films that you don\’t rate as being good enough for your best of list, but are \’underrated\’. You, yourself have underrated these films by not including them in your best of list, which means you do not think they are worthy. This is the paradox, you are at once saying these are not amongst the best films of the year, but also saying they are and are underrated. It doesn\’t make sense.

I understand what you mean about things being relative, but these lists are your opinion and it seems you\’re trying to have it both ways.

I enjoy your blog a lot. You should be pleased it stirs up up discussion, not just attack every one who disagrees with you.

please do a separate foreign films list if this is what we\’re going to see in all the writers\’ lists

Loved \”I am Love\” until the last half hour, where it drops its mesmerizing elegance for a rather obvious plot point shock. It feels a bit silly after that…

Pissed I missed: Easy A, Let Me In

Oh come on now…I\’m not gonna give you that one. If they were simply for the writer who made them, they should\’ve stayed on the college ruled notebook they originated on rather then posted in a public domain meant for people to read and discuss. Why even have a comment section then?

And I\’m not hating…I actually prefer this \”American\” list over the foreign crap that filled up the previous lists 😉