Final Top Ten Films of the Year

So after seeing a couple more movies, I've changed a few things in my Top Ten and these are the final results:

1. Pan's Labyrinth - Still the most moving, frightening, personal and breathtaking cinematic experience I had this year. A truly great film that marked one of the decades highlights so far.

2. The Departed - So close to the best and hopefully a winner at the Oscars, this brutal and oddly moving film was Scorsese's finest since Goodfellas.

3. Children of Men - A new entry into the top ten, this dystopian future vision contains the best cinematography of any film this year during its breathless action sequences. Superlative postmodern sci-fi.

4. Capote - Still a near perfect little period piece that contains the best acting performance since Spacey in American Beauty.

5. Brick - The most relentlessly inventive and original vision we had this year with a storming, Tom Waits influenced soundtrack and a starmaking turn from Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

6. Brokeback Mountain - Moving, painfully emotional stuff that just rips your heart out and leaves it for dead. Plus, the most contraversial love story of our generation.

7. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Elegiac, Peckinpah-like fable from Tommy Lee Jones of friendship, loyalty and justice. Beautifully photographed too.

8. An Inconvenient Truth - The most unlikely success story of the year, Al Gore breaks away from his wooden persona to deliver a charming lecture on Global Warming. Though-provoking to the point of being bone-shakingly frightening.

9. Good Night And Good Luck - George Clooney's pitch perfect period piece on the McCarthy witchunts is a lovely, personal piece of stoic, old-fashioned filmmaking.

10. Little Miss Sunshine - Charming quirk-tale of dysfunctional family values and heartwarming togetherness. Features the great, great Steve Carell.