Wesley Morris & Ty Burr's top movies of 2010
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- full story No greats, but plenty of goodness in 2010 (By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff)
- Full story In this pivotal year, documentaries had the most movie mystery (By Ty Burr, Globe Staff)
"Inside Job"
It’s possible that, through shrewd editing, Charles Ferguson rigged the most outrageous moments in his financial-disaster documentary and it’s true that the call for revolt emerges out of nowhere. But that doesn’t do much to diminish the movie’s galvanic achievement. It concentrates such a persuasively clear, richly articulated case for what produced the crisis in the first place that I still can’t think straight. I just want to run to my nearest hedge fund and beat it with my depleted 401(k).
It’s possible that, through shrewd editing, Charles Ferguson rigged the most outrageous moments in his financial-disaster documentary and it’s true that the call for revolt emerges out of nowhere. But that doesn’t do much to diminish the movie’s galvanic achievement. It concentrates such a persuasively clear, richly articulated case for what produced the crisis in the first place that I still can’t think straight. I just want to run to my nearest hedge fund and beat it with my depleted 401(k).
— W.M.