1. Toy Story 3 - An emotional rollercoaster ride full of fun and nostalgia.
2. I Saw the Devil - Ji-Woon Kim once again creates a visual spectacle this time with a film that's equal parts revenge flick, slasher and hardcore action. Just when you think it can't get more hardcore it does.
3. Black Swan - A great perfomance by Portman in a mindtrip towards obtaining perfection. It's beautiful as it is grotesque.
4. Inception - No movie wowed me more with its visuals and a geniusly structured story. An action packed adventure set within dreams.
5. El Infierno - Mexico's best film in a loooong time, a satirical take on the current problems of drug trafficking. It's like the mexican sardonic Goodfellas,
6. The Secret in Her Eyes - Ricardo Darin gives another great performances in this suspensful detective drama with a romantic sugar coating that just blends togheter seamlessly.
7. Micmacs - Jean Piere Jeunet gives us yet another visually dazzling quirky story replete with zany characters that's both funny and thought provoking.
8. Rabbit Hole - My favorite perfomances of the year belong to Nicole Kidman & Aaron Eckhart as parents dealing with the life of a chid. The characters felt real and their story was not played for melodramatic effects. I was moved and deeply symphatized with their situation. How could you not?
9. Tron: Legacy - I wasn't really expecting much but wow, I ended up lost in the world of Tron, the sets, the costumes, the effects were beautiful, the music was great, Jeff Bridges was awesome as the cyberdude, I loved seeing Michael Sheen in this and Olivia Wilde was just stunning. One of those films I'm very glad I saw in the theater.
10. Cell 211 - One of those films I knew nothing about but was greatly surprised. One of the best prison dramas ever as it recounts Juan Oliver's worst day ever.
11. Despicable Me - Another great surprise, not only did it make me laugh, more surprisingly it was a very charming and heartfel little movie. MINIONS!!
12. The Social Network - Definitely deserving to be one of the years best as it gives us the humor, the drama and frustrations of everyday life in a very entertaining manner all set within the context of social networking as a pretext.
13. The Secret of Kells - As a fan of animation I fell in love with the style and the magic before my eyes
14. Biutiful - One of Alejandro Gonzales Iñarritu's best work although half of the credit goes to a powerful perfomance by Javier Bardem. Far from being a feel good movie it explores the "biuty" within the sorrows of life & death.
15. Exit Through the Gift Shop - Wheter the protagonist is real or one of Banksy's inventions, we know what surrounds him is very real. From the dangers and the genius that is urban "illegal" art to the hypocrisy of the high class commercial art world. An informative and highly amusing documentary.
16. The Loved Ones - A memorable and ORIGINAL film about obsession it its most insane form all set around a slew of pink and glitter, John Huges probably had a nightmare like this.
17. Kick Ass - Hit Girl & Big Daddy do in fact kick huge amounts of ass.
18. 127 Hours -It's not an easy task to make a film about a guy who got stuck for 127 hours beneath a rock, but Danny Boyle & James Franco manage to make the most of it by taking us through a journey of will and hope, persistence and the human spirit. A moving, gut wrenching and inspiring movie.
19. Four Lions - What if The Office was a movie and it was about the Jihad? Then you would get the funniest movie you wouldn't think was going to be funny if you got asked. Humor like only the brits can manage AND get away with.
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - I have accepted this to be the best Harry Potter yet, with an array of awesome scenes and highly mature perfomances. And to think this is just a preamble to all the good things set to come in Part 2
21. Honorable Mentions: Thirst & The Good, The Bad & The Weird - Two movies that took a looong time to get here, one is an awesome take on vampires like only Chan Wook Pak could make and the other is a fun "noodle-western" by one of my new favorite directors Ji-Woon Kim (the only person to appear twice on this list for starters).
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