1) Nostalgia for the Light by Patricio Guzmán
2) A Screaming Man by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
3) I Want to See by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
4) The Pruitt-Igoe Myth by Chad Freidrichs
5) Urbanized by Gary Hustwit
6) Higher Ground by Vera Farmiga
7) Rise of the Planet of the Apes by Rupert Wyatt
8) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
9) The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick (for the first 30 or so minutes)
10) War Horse by Steven Spielberg.

The first 30 minutes of The Tree of Life are great because of the way the images dominate language. Everything is seen; barely a word is spoken,
  • "The first 30 or so minutes of The Tree of Life are great because of the way the images dominate language. Everything is seen; barely a word is spoken. It's an operatic wordlessness. The rest of the movie, however, seriously sucks."