New York Times Critics Top Ten

Avatar makes two out of three of the lists, The Hurt Locker all three, (thanks to Hisham for sending)

A.O. Scott

1) Where the Wild Things Are
2) The Hurt Locker/In the Loop
3) Summer Hours/Of Time and the City
4) Up in the Air/Funny People
5) Bright Star/Medicine for Melancholy
6) Precious/Coraline
7) Avatar/District 9
8 A Serious Man/Anvil: The Story of Anvil
9) Goodbye, Solo/Sugar
10)Gomorrah/The Baader Meinhof Complex

Manohla Dargis (unranked, Top 13):

-Gomorrah
-Tulpan
-Summer Hours
-The Hurt Locker
-The Beaches of Agnes
-Public Enemies
-Beeswax
-Ponyo
-The Informant!
-Where the Wild Things Are
-Fantastic Mr. Fox
-The Sun
-Avatar

Stephen Holden:

1) Up in the Air
2) The White Ribbon
3) Still Walking
4) The Messenger
5) 35 Shots of Rum
6) The Hurt Locker
7) The Headless Woman
8 An Education
9) Summer Hours
10) Disgrace