Critically acclaimed movies of 2010

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse(2010)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

As a string of mysterious killings grips Seattle, Bella, whose high school graduation is fast approaching, is forced to choose between her love for vampire Edward and her friendship with werewolf Jacob.



The Karate Kid(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.



The American(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.



The Debt(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In 1965, three Mossad agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the agents share come back to haunt them.



Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.



RED(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.



Machete(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.



Buried(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.



Megamind(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life.



Conviction(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.



Alice in Wonderland(2010)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.



Shrek Forever After(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpel rules supreme.



Date Night(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns a bored married couple's attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into something more thrilling and dangerous.



Monsters(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



Hereafter(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.



The Last Exorcism(2010)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.



Barney's Version(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.



Edge of Darkness(2010)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.



Robin Hood(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.




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