Telegraph UK’s Top 10 of 2010

The Telegraph‘s Tim Robey weighs in with his 10:

Reminding us of everything David Fincher does well, this story of Facebook fallout was the year’s timeliest movie, among its wittiest, and conjured such an indelible aura of melancholy amid the back-stabbings that it looks certain to last. Aaron Sorkin’s fleet script doesn’t skimp on rapier put-downs, but it’s shaped beautifully to make us feel the overwhelming loneliness of Mark Zuckerberg, both the odd basis of his success and the reason it rings so hollow. In Jesse Eisenberg’s hands, he’s the vindictive nerd as tragic archetype, a know-all who doesn’t, finally, know himself.

1. The Social Network
2. A Prophet
3. Toy Story 3
4. Another Year
5. I Am Love
6. The Kids Are All Right
7. Dogtooth
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. The Ghost Writer
10. Inception

Top 10 Indies and a more dubious 10 Worst list after the cut.

What wonders move and migrate through this extraordinary film. It won the Palme d‚ÄôOr at Cannes ‚Äì a major achievement not just for Thai cinema, but for the avant-garde world from which it emerges. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, it‚Äôs an exquisitely composed, beautifully shot and unfathomably deep miracle show that takes as its starting point the return home to the countryside of an old man who‚Äôs dying of kidney failure… This is a film, flecked with tiny reminders of north-east Thailand‚Äôs violent history in recent decades, about attachments and consolations, about love and loving. It speaks a cinematic language all of its own making.

Top 10 Indies

1.Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2.The Clock
3.White Material
4.The Headless Woman
5.The Illusionist
6.Mary and Max
7.Scott Pilgrim v the World
8.Last Train Home
9.Ivul
10.Exit Through the Gift Shop

Woody Allen has made his share of dreadful comedies, misogynistic grumpy-old-man movies, and many an off-putting romance about dating someone less than half your age, but this is the first time all three subcategories have converged to yield a single unbearable fruit. It ends all discussion about what his worst film is. It’s this. Larry David’s limping, sour literature professor could hardly be worse company, even before he shacks up with Evan Rachel Wood’s dim-bulb Southern nymphet and proceeds to patronise her, in cahoots with Allen’s ghastly script, for the rest of the film.

Ten Worst Films of 2010

1.Whatever Works
2.The Lovely Bones
3.Old Dogs
4.Alice in Wonderland
5.The Last Airbender
6.Dinner for Schmucks
7.The Girl Who Played with Fire
8.The Last Station
9.Motherhood
10.Knight and Day