Annual Best Film Lists

Sam McCosh’s best films by year

 

2012

1. Holy Motors

2. The Imposter

3. Argo

4. This Must Be The Place

5. The Master

6. Undefeated

7. The Perks of Being A Wallflower

8. West of Memphis

9. Django Unchained

10. Café de Flore

11. Zero Dark Thirty

12. Amour

13. Monsiuer Lazhar

14. Cloud Atlas

15. Wrinkles

16. The Raid

17. From Up On Poppy Hill

18. Caesar Must Die

19. Looper

20. The Hunt

 

2011

1. Drive

2. Shame

3. Senna

4. Tinker Tailor Solider Spy

5. Melancholia

6. Beginners

7. Weekend

8. Take Shelter

9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

10. Attack the Block

11. Bill Cunningham New York

Best Animated Film: Arthur Christmas

Best Science Fiction Film: Source Code

Best Super Hero Film: X-Men: First Class

Best Comedy Film: Bridesmaids

Best Action Film: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Best Documentary Film: Senna

Best Individual Sequence or Scene: Opening sequence from Drive

Best Romance/On-screen Chemistry: Weekend

Best Soundtrack/Score: Drive

Male star of 2011: Michael Fassbender & Ryan Gosling [tie]

Female star of 2011: Jessica Chastain

 

2010

1. The Social Network

2. Inception

3. Shutter Island

4. Incendies

5. Easy A

6. Four Lions

7. How to Train Your Dragon

8. Winter’s Bone

9. The Kids Are Alright

10. Somewhere

11. Black Swan

12. Inside Job

13. Last Train Home

14. True Grit

15. Ghost Writer

2009

1. District 9

2. Ponyo

3. Inglorious Basterds

4. Moon

5. Up

6. Up in the Air

7. Coraline

8. World’s Greatest Dad

9. The Departures

10. Zombieland