Your clear favourite, with more hype than you can shake a stick at, was Christopher Nolan’s follow up to The Dark Knight. It’s hard to think of a denser or more complex blockbuster than Inception. From the opening frames it was a dizzying rollercoaster that relentlessly manipulated one's senses, intellect and emotions, and didn't let up for some two and a half hours. This wasn’t a film to be discussed so much as experienced. And you did, several times. Read more & watch the trailer...

An instant kiwi favourite, Boy became the biggest local New Zealand movie in just two months, beating The World's Fastest Indian, Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider. It also scooped three gongs at the QANTAS Film and Television awards for best film, best director (Taika Waititi) and best supporting actor (Waititi again). You loved this story about the gap between youthful potential and the puzzling mystery of adulthood, which took place in a dead-end place where, in the '80s, one could only dream about the magnificence of Michael Jackson or the glamour of TV's Dynasty. Read more & watch the trailer...

We here at Flicks HQ love anything to do with websites, and so do you, it seems, with David Fincher's The Social Network finding itself atop the drama pile. It was a hit, we'd wager, because it had less to do with the internet and more to do with being a classic rags-to-riches tale and the heartbreaking autopsy of a broken friendship. The relentless, lightning-paced dialogue – matched with the nimble, non-linear editing – mirrored the speedy viral nature in which information is shared and processed in our age. More dramas like this, please. Read more & watch the trailer...

Kick-Ass certainly did. The film punched out its nearest rival by more than double the amount of votes to take home the coveted Best Action title. It’s a deserved victory. The movie positively wallowed in its overblown, overdone and over-exaggerated violence, gleefully covering the screen in spilt claret and not wasting any opportunity to pump some bad guy full of lead. Or knives. Or ninja stars. Or… well, you get the idea. Read more & watch the trailer...

This quirky tale of going to extraordinary lengths to get the girl had you all laughing raucously along. Right from the get-go, director Edgar Wright dazzles the senses with bright colours, blasting indie- pop, a hurricane of pop-culture references, a schizophrenic pace and multitudes of battle scenes that impress visually but still manage to keep the laugh quota high. Inventive, imaginative and just damned funny, Scott Pilgrim more than deserves its place on the winner’s pedestal. Thankfully getting the girl in real life isn’t this hard. Read more & watch the trailer...

Leonardo DiCaprio features heavily this year, doesn't he? We're sure his agent must have recieved a generous Christmas hamper. Filmmaking giant Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller cast our Leo as a US Marshall investigating a disappearance from an asylum for the criminally insane. This was the film that thrilled you more than any other this year. Haunting imagery, bold editing choices, and DiCaprio swinging between pulpy gumshoe, caged animal, and the edge of madness. Great stuff. Read more & watch the trailer...

We’d love to say that Paranormal Activity 2 murdered the competition in the Horror category (ho- ho!) but we can’t, as this was one of the most hotly contested categories of the lot. We guess what this means is that you all like to have the bejebus scared out of you in vastly different ways, but that the majority of you like to be scared by lo-fi grainy footage of people sleeping, then getting spooked by evil supernatural beings and then getting dead. And fair enough. Read more & watch the trailer...

And again, it's our friend Leonardo in everyone's favourite movie, by no small coincidence also voted by you as best sci-fi in 2010. Many of you also voted for TRON: Legacy, a very new release and one that may have taken the gong if it had been around for longer. Would you agree? Read more & watch the trailer...

A grand piss-take if ever there was. Authentic-seeming, but not real, Exit was a strange oxymoron of a film, like a straight-faced Spinal Tap or a Man On Wire for liars. Street artist Banksy’s fake documentary about Guetta was actually a real documentary about himself, told from one remove, with points to raise about the commercialisation of art. Good to see local doco This Way of Life get a few votes, as both of these are on the shortlist for Oscar nominations in 2011. Read more & watch the trailer...

2010 was an exceptional year for animation. There was an abundance of quality animated films to choose from but sadly they all had the misfortune to come up against the behemoth that was Pixar’s Toy Story 3. The purported final instalment of Buzz Lightyear’s and Woody’s big screen adventures stormed home to victory, proving that there’s just no beating the original computer animated franchise. Maybe next year, guys… Read more & watch the trailer...

This year it was the turn of Lewis Carrol’s beloved Alice in Wonderland to get the "re-imagination" treatment and it seems we weren’t the only ones who left the cinema perhaps a little underwhelmed at what we had just seen. Running with the idea that this was Alice's second trip down the rabbit hole, Wonderland was not quite so much fun this time and even the Mad Hatter had lost his pizzazz (Johnny Depp's sixth collaboration with director Tim Burton hardly surprised anyone). It seems you were expecting more. Quite frankly, so were we, and it's no surprise that Alice was the clear winner here. Read more & watch the trailer...

Here it is folks. The one you’ve all been waiting for… Yes, according to you all the biggest turkey of 2010 was The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. The love story about vampires and humans and werewolves or, like, whatever, faced down some pretty stiff competition in this category. There was a barrage of suggestions and votes that saw nearly every film released this year angering someone enough to cast a vote disparaging it (yes, even Best Film winner Inception got a couple of votes). Read more & watch the trailer...