In a year where even the best movies weren’t perfect, 2010 was all about the individual moments for me. CL Contributors Kevin Hopp, Rabid Nick Refer and Anthony Nicholas will all have their own 10 Best of 2010 lists up on Daily Loaf later in the week, but for now, here’s my 10 best movie moments from 2010:

The forever-spinning top: Inception

Is Leo dreaming? Is he in Limbo? And is this movie really over? The final shot of Inception elicited gasps from the audience I saw it with, and inspired more online geek theorizing than the finale of Lost. My take: Leo’s trapped in limbo.

Zuckerberg and Parker hangin’ at the club: The Social Network

The Social Network was easily my favorite movie of the year, and comes loaded with memorable moments. My favorite: when Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and devil-in-disguise Shawn Parker (Justin Timberlake) sit down for drinks at a posh Silicon Valley club. The music pumps, the lights swirl, and the mass confusion that comes with melding one’s life and values to unexpected, meteoric success is given visual life by the brilliant David Fincher.

This article appears in Dec 23-29, 2010.