2009 Film



Here are links to my 2009 film reviews, with stars on the ten best (and parentheses around the ones I reviewed after compiling my top 10), as well as various top ten lists.

Reviews

*35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis
Antichrist by Lars von Trier
Avatar by James Cameron
Away We Go by Sam Mendes
*The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog
The Blind Side by John Lee Hancock
The Box by Richard Kelly
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by John Krasinski
Bright Star by Jane Campion
The Brothers Bloom by Rian Johnson
The Cove by Louie Psihoyos
Crazy Heart by Scott Cooper
District 9 by Neill Blomkamp
(Dogtooth by Yorgos Lanthimos)
An Education by Lone Scherfig
(Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl by Manoel de Oliveira)
*Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Funny People by Judd Apatow
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by David Yates
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam
*In the Loop by Armando Iannucci
*Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
*The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch
Moon by Duncan Jones
(My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done by Werner Herzog)
Objectified by Gary Hustwit
Observe and Report by Jody Hill
Paper Heart by Nick Jasenovec
*Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu
Precious by Lee Daniels
The Princess and the Frog by Ron Clements & John Musker
A Prophet by Jacques Audiard
The Road by John Hillcoat
*A Serious Man by Joel & Ethan Coen
The September Issue by RJ Cutler
(Sherlock Holmes by Guy Ritchie)
Star Trek by JJ Abrams
Up in the Air by Jason Reitman
Watchmen by Zack Snyder
Where the Wild Things Are by Spike Jonze
*The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
(Wild Grass by Alain Resnais)
Zombieland by Ruben Fleischer

The Best of 2009

Top 10 Films of 2009
2009 Film Awards
2009 in film:  a sequence of images from the films I first viewed in 2009

Miscellaneous

2009 ASC Nominations and commentary
2010 Oscar Nominations and commentary
2010 Oscar Predictions and commentary
2010 Oscar Results and commentary