The 25 Best Movies of 2010 (So Far)

Best of 2010

It's the middle of the year, so Complex is looking back at The Best of 2010 (So Far) with a series of features that highlight our favorite stuff from the world of entertainment, fashion, art, and more.

Look, it's not physically possible to go nuts the way we do in the club every night of the week, so when we need to chill out and let our bodily fluid reserves build up again, we see a movie. We can get into anything from children's movies and romantic comedies (that don't suck) to hardcore gross-out horror, so nothing's off limits. Thus far in 2010, there have been all kinds of impressive flicks that get our stamp of approval—and it's not even Oscar-baiting season yet! This may be the only place you find ass-to-mouth and talking children's toys on the same list, but what else would you expect from Complex? Without further ado, Complex presents the 25 best movies of 2010 (so far)...

#25: Kick-Ass

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Stars: Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloe Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Mark Strong, Lyndsy Fonseca, Clark Duke

Complex co-sign: Based on the Mark Millar/John Romita, Jr. comic book, Kick-Ass shows what would happen if an average comic-loving teenager (Johnson) donned a costume and tried to fight crime. Mostly he

#24: Trash Humpers

Director: Harmony Korine

Stars: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Harmony Korine, Travis Nicholson, Chris Gantry

Complex co-sign: Korine made this odd, creepy-ass film, which chronicles the exploits of a gang of perverted elderly peeping toms who go around Nashville, Tenn. sticking it to garbage cans and fat hookers, dropping deuces on people

#23: The Book of Eli

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Stars: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Gary Oldman, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Tom Waits

Complex co-sign: In the Hughes Brothers

#22: After.Life

Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo

Stars: Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long

Complex co-sign: This mind-fuck of a horror film revolves around a young woman (Ricci) who wakes from a car accident to find herself trapped in the funeral home of a creepy funeral director (Neeson). He claims that she

#21: Shutter Island

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams

Complex co-sign: As soon as you heard the word

#20: Holy Rollers

Director: Kevin Asch

Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Danny Abeckaser, Q-Tip, Jason Fuchs

Complex co-sign: If you

#19: The Wolfman

Director: Joe Johnston

Stars: Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving

Complex co-sign: People lined up to hate on Johnston

#18: Defendor

Director: Peter Stebbings

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Elias Koteas, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh, Kat Dennings

Complex co-sign: Harrelson plays a tragically and comically delusional (mildly retarded?) man who dresses up as a masked crime fighter to battle perceived evil and an arch-enemy. It

#17: Frozen

Director: Adam Green

Stars: Emma Bell, Kevin Zegers, Kane Hodder, Shawn Ashmore

Complex co-sign: A thriller about three skiers stuck on a chairlift, where they

#16: Daybreakers

Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill, Michael Dorman, Isabel Lucas

Complex co-sign: With all the focus on angst-filled teenage vampires, you may have missed this horrific sci-fi sleeper about a future where plague has turned almost everyone into vamps, and they are starving and devolving into hideous bat-like creatures because human blood supply is dwindling. Do yourself a favor and watch a vampire movie that sucks blood, not donkey balls.

#15: Repo Men

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Liev Schreiber, Alice Braga, Carice van Houten, Chandler Canterbury, RZA, Ludacris

Complex co-sign: Want to teach your kids about the perils of credit? Sit the lil

#14: Brooklyn

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Stars: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin

Complex co-sign: Antoine Fuqua

#13: Death at a Funeral

Director: Neil LaBute

Stars: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Tracy Morgan, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, James Marsden, Zoe Saldana, Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Peter Dinklage, Columbus Short

Complex co-sign: This remake of the 2007 English film is considerably blacker and deffer than the original, with Rock and Lawrence playing brothers who find out waaay more than they needed to about their dead dad

#12: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Director: Banksy

Stars: Thierry Guetta, Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader

Complex co-sign: Called a

#11: The Ghost Writer

Director: Roman Polanski

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton, Jim Belushi, Eli Wallach

Complex co-sign: Polanski

#10: A Million in the Morning

Director: Jason Goldwatch

Stars: Gavin McInnes

Complex co-sign: Sleep is the cousin of death, but that doesn

#9: Iron Man 2

Director: Jon Favreau

Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Mickey Rourke, Jon Favreau

Complex co-sign: Sure, it didn

#8: Harry Brown

Director: Daniel Barber

Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Ben Drew, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Jack O'Connell, Liam Cunningham

Complex co-sign: You know what

#7: Machotaildrop

Directors: Corey Adams, Alex Craig

Stars: Rick McCrank, John Rattray

Complex co-sign: Adams and Craig won a cool million from Fuel Experiment to make the film of their dreams, and the result is the beautifully shot, epically allegorical skateboard comedy-drama Machotaildrop. Surreal, hilarious, and just plain flat-out weird, the film features the dopest skating in any feature film, ever (courtesy of pros like Rick McCrank and John Rattray), and has a plot that

#6: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

Director: Tom Six

Stars: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura

Complex co-sign: Tom Six

#5: A Prophet

Director: Jacques Audiard

Stars: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb, Hichem Yacoubi, Jean-Philippe Ricci, Slimane Dazi

Complex co-sign: A beautiful and, at times, barbaric French film, A Prophet tells the story of an illiterate and generally innocent Arab prisoner (Rahim) who transforms into a murderer to survive in a facility run by the Corsican mafia. So now you can add France to your list of places you don

#4: Toy Story 3

Director: Lee Unkrich

Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Estelle Harris, John Morris, Jodi Benson, Emily Hahn, Laurie Metcalf, Blake Clark

Complex co-sign: In the third chapter of the talking toy trilogy, a teenage Andy is heading to college and his mom mistakenly donates his childhood playthings to the Sunnyside Daycare center, which appears to be a utopia but turns out to be a more sinister operation that necessitates a great escape. We

#3: Hot Tub Time Machine

Director: Steve Pink

Stars: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Chevy Chase, Crispin Glover, Lizzy Caplan, Lyndsy Fonseca

Complex co-sign: Four losers who run the gamut of pathetic (recently dumped, cheated on, pussy-whipped, too old for the party, woman-less video game addict) hop in a hot tub together and are transported back in time to the Kodiak Valley Ski Resort

#2: Splice

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chaneac

Complex co-sign: Just your run of the mill

#1: Get Him to the Greek

Director: Nicholas Stoller

Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne, Colm Meaney

Complex co-sign: After impressing his music mogul boss (Combs) with a money-making anniversary concert idea, a low-level label employee (Hill) is charged with transporting rock star cautionary tale Aldous Snow (Brand) from London to New York, then L.A. (even if it means smuggling some heroin in his rectum). This spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall is beyond hilarious, true to every bit of fuckery we

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