The Best in Movies 2010
The top fights, lines, effects, best and worst films of the year 2010 A.D.
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By Jordan Hoffman December 22, 2010 |
11) Kick-Ass |
There is a crackle throughout this picture, and it isn't just the broken bones.
Kick-Ass represents the giddy embrace of comics and comic culture as well as the willingness to find the line and then prance over it. There's nothing about this movie that doesn't exude a good time.
10) The Ghost Writer |
I want you to look up at the production still for The Ghost Writer. That, ultimately, is why it wins placement on my best of the year list.
For all the worthy performances and nifty twists and turns in the plot, it is the tactile sense of place in Polanski's film that has seared this paranoid thriller into my unconscious.
I feel as if Pierce Brosnan's luxurious winter bunker is something I dreamt, not something I saw in a movie. It may sound corny, but I know the place.
9) Exit Through The Gift Shop |
I probably did more off-hours bar-yapping about this movie than any other this year. (Well, that's positive yapping, anyhow. We'll get to the worst film of the year later.)
What makes ETTGS so remarkable is that it works on many conventional levels. It starts as an "eye into a world," like, say, GoodFellas, then a hunt for a white whale, then, ultimately, a rivalry piece in the vein of Amadeus.
Behind it all is the timless question "What is Art?" but the picture is cool enough to never so bluntly state this.
