This list has already appeared on indieWIRE, but I’m cross-posting it here as an excuse to do some last-day-of-the-year lazy linkage back to some of our past coverage. In the name of keeping this short and sweet, where there was no past coverage to link to (as is the case with the several films that I saw before becoming a SpoutBlogger), clicking the title will take you to the film’s Spout page. Feel free to post your own lists, or links to them, in the comments. We’ll be back on Wednesday.

1. Silent Light

2. There Will Be Blood

3. My Winnipeg

4. Control

5. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford

The rest of the top ten, plus runners-up and special prizes, after the jump.

6. Billy the Kid

7. Quiet City

8. Red Road9. This is England

10. Great World of Sound

Runners-up, any of which might have made the Top Ten had I been in a different mood: Low and Behold, Frownland, The Boss of it All, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Day Night Day Night, Starting Out in the Evening, 2 Days in Paris.

Didn’t see, but wish I had: Lust, Caution, Zodiac, Syndromes and a Century, Romance and Cigarettes, Black Book, Shotgun Stories

Most Underrated Feature: Broken English

Most Underrated Doc: Strange Culture

Most Overrated: No Country For Old Men

Very close runner-up: Juno

The First Annual Boxing Helena Award, For A Flash of Brilliance That I Wish I Could Amputate From The Fatally Flawed Film Surrounding It (three-way tie):

1. The first 40 minutes of Atonement
2. Justin Timberlake lipsyncs The Killers, Southland Tales
3. The last 20 minutes of Michael Clayton