More year-end favorites from The New York Times. A.O. Scott already announced his Top 10. Now critic Stephen Holden checks in:
1. THE SOCIAL NETWORK
2. INSIDE JOB
3. INCEPTION
4. CARLOS
5. ANOTHER YEAR
6. VINCERE
7. WHITE MATERIAL
8. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
9. TRUE GRIT
10. MY DOG TULIP
(thanks red_wine) Manohla Dargis gives us an unranked list of 30 films, after the cut.
“Sweetgrass” (Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
“The Ghost Writer” (Roman Polanski)
“Shutter Island” (Martin Scorsese)
“A Prophet” (Jacques Audiard)
“Vincere” (Marco Bellocchio)
“Everyone Else” (Maren Ade)
“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” (Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg)
“Wild Grass” (Alain Resnais)
“The Kids Are All Right” (Lisa Cholodenko)
“Inception” (Christopher Nolan)
“A Film Unfinished” (Yael Hersonski)
“The Tillman Story” (Amir Bar-Lev)
“Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1” (Jean-François Richet)
“Last Train Home” (Lixin Fan)
“Enter the Void” (Gaspar Noé)
three shorts by Nathaniel Dorsky (“Aubade,” “Compline” and “Pastourelle”)
“Get Out of the Car” (Thom Andersen)
“The Social Network” (David Fincher)
“A Loft” (Ken Jacobs)
“Inside Job” (Charles Ferguson)
“Carlos” (Olivier Assayas)
“Boxing Gym” (Frederick Wiseman)
“127 Hours” (Danny Boyle)
“Tiny Furniture” (Lena Dunham)
“Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” (Damien Chazelle)
“White Material” (Claire Denis)
“Black Swan” (Darren Aronofsky)
“The Fighter” (David O. Russell)
“True Grit” (Joel and Ethan Coen)
“Secret Sunshine” (Lee Chang-dong)
“The Strange Case of Angelica” (Manoel de Oliveira).