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I have been slacking in watching movies. I have a list of films from this year that I enjoyed or would want to see again. I haven’t seen some of the 2010 films yet mentioned above and so those aren’t on the list. Some of them I have, but wasn’t thrilled with them enough to include them. Some of them are light weight fluff and some aren’t, but I enjoyed them and that was my only criteria.
In no particular order:
1. Restrepo - a great documentary. For a war that we hear about on the nightly news, but see little of, this documentary performs a much needed service.
2. True Grit - Though not as good as No Country for Old Men, I still enjoyed it, primarily for Bridges's and Steinfeld’s performances and the true star - the dialogue from the book translated to the screen so accurately and lovingly.
3. Red - was a fun and light weight fluff of a movie. I also have a soft spot for funny spy movies.
4. Greenberg - finally a Ben Stiller movie that I like. And Gerwig was great in it too.
5. The Ghost Writer - A well filmed thriller, like I haven’t seen in a good long time.
6. Winter’s Bone - Great non-condescending view of life at the tattered edges. Jennifer Lawrence was so good in this. The scene where she gets her “proof” to keep the family home, stuck with me for days.
7. Four Lions - a very funny and also dark satire. It’s what terrorism would look like if performed by the equivalent of the Three Stooges. Oddly enough the ending is sad and inevitable though.

I agree that 2010 wasn't a banner year for movies.