Keith's Year Watching Movies: A Son's Journey

Here is a quick rundown of my year watching new movies:

20 FAVORITE NARRATIVE FILMS I SAW THIS YEAR :

CARLOS (rest listed alphabetically)

A Prophet
Antichrist
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Certified Copy
Dogtooth
Enter the Void
Everyone Else
Fish Tank
Greenberg
I'm Still Here
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Somewhere
The Ghost Writer
The Loved One
The Social Network
The White Ribbon
Tuesday, After Christmas
White Material


10 BEST DOCS:

RACING DREAMS & LAST TRAIN HOME (rest listed alphabetically)

And Everything is Going Fine
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Jean-Michel Basquiat - The Radiant Child
Jackass 3-d
Joan Rivers: piece of work
Restrepo
The Oath
Videocracy


20 RUNNERS UP (who if i put more time on this list may have ended up in the realm of the TOP FILMS, but i am throwing this together and they didn’t make it to the top of the heap for whatever reason.)

Amer
Animal Kingdom
Another Year
Cyrus
I Love You Phillip Morris
Mother
Never Let Me Go
Piranha 3-D
Please Give
Shutter Island
The American
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
The Robber
Toy Story 3
Trash Humpers
Unstoppable
Valhalla Rising
Wild Grass
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger


20 FILMS I liked in varying degrees, but were not my “favorite films of the year”. This is probably the area where there is the greatest gap between how much I like these movies:

127 Hours
A town called Panic
Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Blue Beard
Buried
Catfish
Four Lions
Green Zone
Harry Brown
Inspector Bellamy
My Dog Tulip
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Rabbit Hole
Soul Kitchen
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
The Killer Inside Me
The Town
Thorn in the Heart
When You’re Strange
Winter’s Bone


20 MOVIES THAT I LIKED JUST FINE BUT I WOULD PROBABLY TELL YOU SOMETHING LIKE “Yeah, i dunno, i thought it was okay. kinda fun. I dunno, if it’s on I would say you should watch it, but whatever, I dunno.”:

Alice in Wonderland
All Good Things
City Island
Easy A
Edge of Darkness
Get him to the Greek
Holy Rollers
Hot Tub Time Machine
Inception
Jack Goes Boating
Kick-Ass
Life during Wartime
Macgruber
Mic Macs
Nowhere Boy
Red
Salt
Solitary Man
The Crazies
The Runaways



20 MOVIES I DIDN’T LIKE VERY MUCH (or they are like 70 percent okay and 30 percent terrible)

Brooklyn's finest
Casino Jack
Cairo time
Death at a funeral
Girl with the dragon tattoo
It's kind of a Funny Story
Knight & Day
Morning Glory
Oki's Movie
Outrage (Japanese outrage, not the doc)
Saint John of Las Vegas
Smash his Camera
Splice
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
The Kids are all right
The Other guys
The Vicious Kind
Today's Special
Wall Street: Money never Sleeps
Youth In Revolt


10 LEAST FAVORITE MOVIES OF 2010:
(Note: 3 of these feature zach galifanakis, 2 feature paul dano, and 1 features paul dano’s girlfriend, Zoe Kazan. I find this interesting. I thought I liked these people):

THE BOOK OF ELI (my least fave movie, the rest listed alphabetically)

Chloe
Dinner for schmucks
Due Date
In My Sleep
Operation: Endgame
The Expendables
The Exploding Girl
The Extra Man
The Good Heart


6 Films Made by people I know that I would feel weird ranking but recommend highly:

Cummings Farm (All American Orgy)
Gabi on the Roof in July
Lovers of Hate
Tiny Furniture
Winnebago Man
You Won’t Miss Me

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR AT THE MOVIES! WELL NOT NEXT YEAR, SINCE ITS 2011. THIS YEAR NOW. SORRY TO CLINT EASTWOOD FOR NOT SEEING HEREAFTER. IT LOOKED BORING, DUDE!