Need to catch up with these sometime.

Twelve that appeared on bunches of year-end lists:
The Ghost Writer
I Am Love
Another Year
Carlos
Winter’s Bone
A Prophet
Certified Copy
Meek’s Cutoff
Dogtooth
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Rabbit Hole
The Fighter

Twelve that just look awesome to me
L’Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Illusionist
Monsters
Inception
True Grit
And Everything Is Going Fine
A Screaming Man
Norwegian Wood
13 Assassins
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
The Trip
The Tempest

Reverse Shot just posted their top ten, and number one is something called Alamar. I was tempted to add it until I saw the phrase “ascetic rigor” – not falling for that one again.