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What happened to Certified Copy? My apologies if it's not considered a 2010 film.

Um, forgive me for asking, but is "Inception" not included ANYWHERE in this article? Ohhh right, you guys gave it one and a half stars. Now, it could be argued that it was just reviewer Nick Schager's opinion, but NOBODY picked it in their top ten or even their honorable freakin' mentions?!?

"The Crazies", "Piranha 3D", and the godforsaken "Human Centipede" are listed instead of Inception. This is either some new level of irony or Slant has truly fallen off the cliff of sanity into the mountains of madness. May the internet have mercy on your souls.

Dogtooth at #1....formidable choice. I will not contest that. Everyone Else could have strictly followed but its relative ranking is also appreciable.

Ditto the above confusion about Certified Copy; I just looked over at 2009 list and it doesn't seem to be there either.

Curious as to where Winnebago Man went on Ed's top 20 in particular—according to his criticWIRE page he gave it a B+?

Ah, ok, thanks for clearing that up, Ed. Forgive me for being nosy, I just follow your work (and grades, apparently) with great reverie and in seeing that film's omission was a bit bewildered. Thanks again for the clear-up!

@charlesporch: I think you might mean reverENCE, although Ed Gonzalez is pretty dreamy.

I'm surprised Black Swan only made it onto one list, Honorable Mentions included. I don't disagree that it's not that great, but just as Antichrist was honored here last year despite the critics here being very divided on it, I thought Black Swan might be treated similarly, but no.

As for Inception: I'm surprised so many critics like it AT ALL, much less have given it Top Ten status.

Thank you for not having that overrated Inception on your list. Going to see Dogtooth now.

Ed, you have probably seen True Grit by now so where does it stand? Coens were not on your list last year so I'm wondering if they have made it this time.

Inception is garbage and was rightfully excluded. What's curious to me is that Enter the Void was mentioned only in Nick's HMs. The complete absence of I'm Still Here (my favorite movie of the year) is unsurprising yet disappointing. Dogtooth, Carlos, and Everyone Else are all high up on my own top 10 list. Black Swan was pretty awesome but I would have liked it more if I wasn't thinking about Lynch the whole time.

Three nods for "The Human Centipede"? Really? The level of pretentiousness has gotten a bit out of control. "The Human Centipede" is absolutely devoid of redeeming artistic or social value. To read value into it is to delude oneself in the interest of being contrary.

@izbritneybytch: And isn't that kind of black-and-white absolutism a bit delusional as well? As one who abhors the "Saw" sequels and the direction they've tried to lead modern horror movies, I believe "The Human Centipede" was an absolutely necessary bit of subversive correction.

I was hugely dissapointed with Dogtooth. Found it to be predictable and unoriginal. Also, no film can be truly excellent if it's comparable to anything by M. Night Shyamalan. Mother and The Prophet stood out for me, as well as Another Year. Mike Leigh = Love. Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World was good, but being from Toronto, I felt the film failed to really grasp the feel of the city that is so present in the graphic novels. That being said, if a Canadian had directed the film it would have turned out to be just another crappy Canadian movie.

Seeing Dogtooth tomorrow and agree with most of the list here, especially Everyone Else. I was disappointed though that Restrepo didn't make the cut except for an honorable mention.

Yabels, dont cry. Incepiton is the biggest crap thats been put out recently. For like 15 years. Try not to watch so much brainless stuff and

I don't know if the editors read the comments to such articles after publishing, but living in Europe, I have just seen 'Somewhere' and I'm surprised not to see it on even one list. I know it's controversial and I would suppose some of the editors hate it, but Slant seems to embrace controversial movies if they're brave enough, especially with seven different opinions to choose from, and Miriam Bale's review had been very enthusiastic ("This experimental pop film stands on its own, peerless and without precedent"). Did you really not like it enough? Or maybe it's because the list had been published 15th December, and some people didn't have the chance to see it by then? If so, is it to be eligible for "best of 2011" list?