Ten best movies of 2010

If you haven't yet seen any or all of my top 10, I envy what awaits you. These are Monitor Film Critic Peter Rainer's favorite films of the year.

6. The Illusionist

This is an ineffably sweet and melancholy handcrafted 2-D animated movie about an aging magician and the young waif he looks after. Director Sylvain Chomet, who also made the wonderful "Triplets of Belleville," adapted a never-produced screenplay by Jacques Tati, and he serves the master superlatively well while also making the material triumphantly his own.

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