New Yorker’s Richard Brody names Shutter Island Best Film of 2010

“Shutter Island” (Martin Scorsese) РImages that seem wrenched from the most visceral side of the director’s mind—a sort of cinematic self-psychoanalysis that becomes a collective confession of the substantial fears and horrors of a historical moment that’s not only not lost but constantly being rediscovered as style.

And the rest:

2. The Social Network РTwo movies for the price of one—the Sorkin version, with its rueful psychologizing, and the Fincher version, with its principled wonder. A portrait of genius that’s reminiscent of “Amadeus” but is closer in artistic quality to—while bearing the generational force of—“Rebel Without a Cause.”

3. Somewhere РOne of the most radical films ever made in Hollywood, if the root of the cinema is the conjuring of inner life through outer particulars. The gap between the life lived and the life perceived—a quiet tragedy, Sartre-style—is traversed with the tender, near-weightless glide of a Ferrari on a freeway.

Check out the rest over at the New Yorker — his list goes all the way to 25. Also on it, Hereafter and Black Swan.