1. Hugo (3D).
   (Martin Scorcese)
2. In Time.
   (Andrew Niccol)
3. Michael.
   (Markus Schleinzer)
4. Black Swan.
   (Darren Aronofsky)
5. The Artist.
   (Michel Hazanavicius)
6. Le Gamin au Vélo. (The Kid with a Bike)
   (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
7. Et Maintenant en va Ou? (Where Do We Go Now?)
   (Nadine Labaki)
8. Pina (3D) (Wim Wenders)/ The Adventures of TinTin: Secret of the Unicorn (3D) (Steven Spielberg).
9. Balada Triste de Trompeta (The Last Circus) (Álex de la Iglesia)/ La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live in) (Pedro Almodovar)
10. Pulsar (Alex Stockman)/ Rundskop (Michael R. Roskam).

Would not have been misplaced in my top 10 either / Hadden eveneens niet misstaan in mijn top 10:
We Need to talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
Thirst (Chan-wook Park)
The Woman (Lucky McKee)
Battle for Haditha (Nick Broomfield)
Bad Posture (Malcolm Murray)
The King of Kong: A fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
Rubber (Quentin Dupieux)
Mistérios de Lisboa. (Raoul Ruiz)
Kill List. (Ben Wheatley)
Project Nim. (James Marsh)
Red State. (Kevin Smith)
The Slut. (Hagar Ben-Asher)
Oslo, 31. August. (Joachim Trier)
Page One: Inside the New York Times. (Andrew Rossi)
Margin Call. (J.C. Chandor)
Keyhole. (Guy Maddin)
Margaret. (Kenneth Lonergan)
Présumé Coupable. (Vincent Garenq)
Drive. (Nicholas Winding Refn)
Jodaeite Nader az Simin (Nader and Simin: A Separation). (Asghar Farhadi)
True Grit. (Joel & Ethan Coen)
La Fée. (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon & Bruno Romy)
Route Irish. (Ken Loach)
The Tree of Life. (Terrence Malick)
Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
L’Exercise de l’Etat,
The Ides of March. (George Clooney)
Contagion & The Girlfriend Experience. (Steven Soderbergh)
Bellflower. (Evan Glodell)

Not bad either / Voorts ook genoten van:
Hara-kiri. (Takashi Miike), The Fighter (David O. Russell), Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance), Limitless (Neil Burger), Restless (Gus van Sant), Moneyball (Bennett Miller), Last Night (Massy Tadjedin), La Geurre est Déclarée (Declaration of War)(Valérie Donzelli), The Conspirator (Robert Redford), The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper), Polisse (Maïwenn), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt), Aurora (Cristi Puiu), Source Code (Duncan Jones), Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski), Tous les Soleils (Philippe Claudel), Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope) (Nanni Moretti), Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman), The Invader (Nicholas Provost).