Green Zone (2010)
Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon take the Bourne method into occupied Baghdad and go looking for the weapons that were never there. Familiar politics, first-rate craft, and a chase you cannot look away from. 8/10.
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2010
Articles published in 2010.
Shutter Island (2010)
Scorsese trades the streets for a fog-bound asylum and builds a gorgeous, paranoid Gothic puzzle. The mystery leans hard on its twist, but the atmosphere and DiCaprio carry it a long way. 8/10.
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The Book of Eli (2010)
The Hughes brothers return with a sun-bleached post-apocalyptic western that critics find thin and I find quietly gripping. Denzel Washington carries it, the world earns its silence, and on mood and rewatchability it lands well above the consensus. 8/10.
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Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Guy Ritchie drags Conan Doyle's detective off the armchair and into the bareknuckle ring, and Robert Downey Jr gives him a manic charm that carries the whole thing. Not the Holmes of the deerstalker, but a thoroughly entertaining one. 8/10.
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