With all that in mind, here are my top 11 of '10 - listed in alphabetical order.












Honourable mention goes to the terrific short film The Legend of Beaver Dam.
Meek's Cutoff (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Police, Adjective (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)
Cold Weather (dir. Aaron Katz)
NY Export: Opus Jazz (dir. Henry Joost and Jody Lee Lipes)
Confessions (dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
Daddy Longlegs (dir. Benny and Josh Safdie)
Four Lions (dir. Christopher Morris)
Machotaildrop (dir. Corey Adams)
Down Terrace (dir. Ben Wheatley)
La Dance: The Paris Ballet Opera (dir. Frederick Wiseman)