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