31. Winter's Bone
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Debra Granik
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Casey MacLaren, Tate Taylor
Plot: A 17-year-old Ozark girl must navigate a difficult world while tracking down her drug-dealing father and keeping her own family together.
32. Blue Valentine
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, Ben Shenkman, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett
Plot: A look into the life of a contemporary married couple that is seen through the lens of different time periods in their relationship.
33. Red
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich
Plot: A former black-ops agent finds himself the target of assassination and in order to survive, reaches out to his former team.
34. Poetry ( Shi )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Actors: Jeong-hie Yun, Nae-sang Ahn, Da-wit Lee, Hira Kim, Yong-taek Kim
Plot: A woman with early-onset Alzheimer's disease uncovers a devastating family
crime that had been covered up. In order to find the strength and resolve
to face these truths, she finds a creative outlet in a poetry class.
35. Man from Nowhere, The ( Ajeossi )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Actors: Bin Won, Sae-ron Kim, Hyo-seo Kim
36. Never Let Me Go
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Romanek
Actors: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Andrea Riseborough, Sally Hawkins
Plot: Three children who have spent their lives together at the same English
boarding school must come to terms with their relationship and the harsh
reality of life.
37. Let Me In
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Chloe Moretz, Sasha Barrese, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Cara Buono
Plot: Remake of the Swedish film Let the Right One In: A young bullied boy befriends a new neighbor who happens to be a vampire.
38. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The ( Luftslottet som sprängdes )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Actors: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Anders Ahlbom, Alexandra Eisenstein, Lena Endre
Plot: Based on the third book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy - Lisbeth Salandar finally leaves the hospital only to be faced with three murder charges. As journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to clear her name, Lisbeth plots revenge against the people responsible for her ordeal.
39. The Book of Eli
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Actors: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Michael Gambon
Plot: In a post-apocalyptic American a man fights to protect The Book of Eli - a tome which may hold the secret to saving humanity.
40. Even the Rain ( También la lluvia )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Raúl Arévalo, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Juan Carlos Aduviri
Plot: A Spanish director on a tight budget decides to film his biopic on Christopher Columbus in Bolivia, in order to hire local actors on the cheap. Everything seems to be going smoothly, until a battle erupts over the privatization of the water supply - and one of his lead actors leads the protest movement.
