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Best Movies of 2010, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
66 films from 2010 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Inception ('2010), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Flipped, 7.6 on IMDb against 45 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inception '2010 | Action / Sci-Fi / Crime | 8.8 | 86% | 74 | 8.4 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | Shutter Island '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 8.2 | 69% | 63 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 3 | Toy Story 3 '2010 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 98% | 92 | 7.8 | Lee Unkrich |
| 4 | How to Train Your Dragon '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 8.1 | 99% | 75 | 7.9 | Chris Sanders |
| 5 | Black Swan '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 8.0 | 85% | 79 | 7.7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 6 | The King's Speech '2010 | Drama | 8.0 | 94% | 88 | 7.7 | Tom Hooper |
| 7 | The Social Network '2010 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 95 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 8 | Incendies '2010 | Drama / War / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 80 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 9 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 '2010 | Fantasy | 7.7 | 77% | 65 | 7.7 | David Yates |
| 10 | Tangled '2010 | Animation | 7.7 | 89% | 71 | 7.6 | Byron Howard |
| 11 | The Fighter '2010 | Drama | 7.8 | 91% | 79 | 7.4 | David O. Russell |
| 12 | Despicable Me '2010 | Animation / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 80% | 72 | 7.3 | Pierre Coffin |
| 13 | Kick-Ass '2010 | Action / Crime | 7.6 | 78% | 66 | 7.1 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 14 | True Grit '2010 | Drama / Western | 7.6 | 95% | 80 | 7.3 | Ethan Coen |
| 15 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World '2010 | Action / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 83% | 69 | 7.5 | Edgar Wright |
| 16 | The Town '2010 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 92% | 74 | 7.2 | Ben Affleck |
| 17 | 127 Hours '2010 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | 82 | 7.1 | Danny Boyle |
| 18 | I Saw the Devil '2010 | Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 83% | 67 | 7.8 | Kim Jee-woon |
| 19 | Tucker and Dale vs. Evil '2010 | Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | 86% | 65 | 7.4 | Eli Craig |
| 20 | Megamind '2010 | Animation / Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 73% | 63 | 7.0 | Tom McGrath |
| 21 | Arrietty '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.6 | 94% | 80 | 7.7 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi |
| 22 | Flipped '2010 | Romance / Drama | 7.6 | 54% | 45 | 8.0 | Rob Reiner |
| 23 | Blue Valentine '2010 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 87% | 81 | 7.0 | Derek Cianfrance |
| 24 | The Next Three Days '2010 | Romance / Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.3 | 50% | 52 | 7.1 | Paul Haggis |
| 25 | Easy A '2010 | Comedy | 7.0 | 85% | 72 | 6.8 | Will Gluck |
| 26 | Remember Me '2010 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 26% | 40 | 7.1 | Allen Coulter |
| 27 | RED '2010 | Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | 72% | 60 | 6.7 | Robert Schwentke |
| 28 | Iron Man 2 '2010 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 72% | 57 | 6.9 | Jon Favreau |
| 29 | Buried '2010 | Thriller | 6.9 | 87% | 65 | 6.6 | Rodrigo Cortés |
| 30 | Three Steps Above Heaven '2010 | Romance / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 7.7 | Fernando González Molina |
| 31 | Unstoppable '2010 | Action / Thriller | 6.8 | 87% | 69 | 6.6 | Tony Scott |
| 32 | The Book of Eli '2010 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 46% | 53 | 6.8 | Allen Hughes |
| 33 | TRON: Legacy '2010 | Action / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 51% | 49 | 6.5 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 34 | Love & Other Drugs '2010 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 6.7 | 49% | 55 | 7.0 | Edward Zwick |
| 35 | The A-Team '2010 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 6.7 | 48% | 47 | 6.4 | Joe Carnahan |
| 36 | The Other Guys '2010 | Comedy / Action / Crime | 6.7 | 78% | 64 | 6.3 | Adam McKay |
| 37 | Letters to Juliet '2010 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.5 | 42% | 50 | 7.0 | Gary Winick |
| 38 | Machete '2010 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 6.6 | 70% | 60 | 6.3 | Robert Rodriguez |
| 39 | Life As We Know It '2010 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.5 | 29% | 39 | 6.9 | Greg Berlanti |
| 40 | Robin Hood '2010 | Action | 6.6 | 43% | 53 | 6.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 41 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time '2010 | Fantasy / Action | 6.5 | 37% | 50 | 6.3 | Mike Newell |
| 42 | Salt '2010 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 61% | 65 | 6.4 | Phillip Noyce |
| 43 | Due Date '2010 | Comedy / Drama | 6.5 | 39% | 51 | 6.4 | Todd Phillips |
| 44 | Dear John '2010 | Drama / Romance / War | 6.3 | 28% | 43 | 6.8 | Lasse Hallström |
| 45 | Devil '2010 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.3 | 49% | 44 | 6.1 | John Erick Dowdle |
| 46 | Shrek Forever After '2010 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation | 6.4 | 58% | 58 | 6.4 | Mike Mitchell |
| 47 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader '2010 | Fantasy | 6.3 | 49% | 53 | 6.4 | Michael Apted |
| 48 | Date Night '2010 | Comedy / Action | 6.3 | 67% | 56 | 6.1 | Shawn Levy |
| 49 | Predators '2010 | Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller | 6.4 | 66% | 51 | 6.3 | Nimród Antal |
| 50 | The Last Song '2010 | Drama / Romance | 6.0 | 22% | 33 | 7.2 | Julie Anne Robinson |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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