Films seen in 2009: Ranked

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  • 5.0

  • Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
  • Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975)
  • The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948)
  • 4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
  • The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
  • Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
  • Madame de... (Max Ophüls, 1953)
  • Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
  • Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
  • Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, 1968)
  • White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
  • 4.5

  • The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)
  • The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
  • In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009)
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
  • Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
  • A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2009)
  • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
  • Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
  • 4.0

  • Afterschool (Antonio Campos, 2008)
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sasha Gervasi, 2008)
  • Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
  • Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  • Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982)
  • District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009)
  • (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009)
  • High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)
  • In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, 2008)
  • The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
  • Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944)
  • Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
  • Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
  • Peter Pan (Clyde Geromin, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1953)
  • Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
  • Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich, 2008)
  • Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
  • Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008)
  • They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
  • Up (Pete Docter, 2009)
  • Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 2008)
  • Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
  • 3.5

  • Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
  • Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
  • Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, 1945)
  • Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, 2009)
  • Duplicity (Tony Gilroy, 2009)
  • Earth (Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, 2007)
  • Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
  • Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, 2003)
  • 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
  • Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, 2008)
  • Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
  • Momma's Man (Azazel Jacobs, 2008)
  • O'Horten (Bent Hamer, 2007)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  • Our Daily Bread (King Vidor, 1934)
  • The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
  • Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
  • [REC] (Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, 2007)
  • Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1973)
  • Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
  • Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2008)
  • Surfwise (Doug Pray, 2007)
  • This Is England (Shane Meadows, 2006)
  • A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe, 1965)
  • Woman Is a Woman, A/Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
  • The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)
  • 3.0

  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter, 1984)
  • American Teen (Nanette Burstein, 2008)
  • Around the Bay (Alejandro Adams, 2008)
  • The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2008)
  • Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)
  • The Double Life of Veronique (Krszystof Kieslowski, 1991)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
  • From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, 1986)
  • Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth, 1981)
  • I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
  • Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
  • Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997)
  • Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke, 2008)
  • The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat, 2007)
  • Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis, 2008)
  • Nothing But the Truth (Rod Lurie, 2008)
  • Objectified (Gary Hustwit, 2009)
  • The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown, 2008)
  • Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007)
  • Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008)
  • The President's Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967)
  • Que Viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein, 1947)
  • Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009)
  • 2.5

  • Adoration (Atom Egoyan, 2008)
  • Baghead (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, 2008)
  • Boy A (John Crowley, 2007)
  • Canary (Alejandro Adams, 2009)
  • Chéri (Stephen Frears, 2009)
  • 5x2 (François Ozon, 2004)
  • Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008)
  • A Girl Cut in Two (Claude Chabrol, 2007)
  • The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
  • Horton Hears a Who! (Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino, 2008)
  • Husbands (John Cassavetes, 1970)
  • I Love You, Man (John Hamburg, 2009)
  • The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais, Matthew Robinson, 2009)
  • My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940)
  • Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Shawn Levy, 2009)
  • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito, 2007)
  • Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga, 2009)
  • Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs, 2008)
  • Tyson (James Toback, 2008)
  • Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis, 1980)
  • Victor/Victoria (Blake Edwards, 1982)
  • Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, 2009)
  • Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
  • Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974)
  • 2.0

  • Away We Go (Sam Mendes, 2009)
  • Brüno (Larry Charles, 2009)
  • Hamlet 2 (Andrew Fleming, 2008)
  • The International (Tom Tykwer, 2009)
  • Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009)
  • Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett, 2008)
  • The Promotion (Steve Conrad, 2008)
  • The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008)
  • Romance and Cigarettes (John Turturro, 2005)
  • Tokyo! (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Joon-ho Bong, 2008)
  • Watchmen (Zach Snyder, 2009)
  • Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith, 2008)
  • 1.5

  • Gordy (Mark Lewis, 1995)
  • Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008)
  • 1.0

  • What We Do Is Secret (Rodger Grossman, 2007)
  • 0.5

  • Worse than 0.5

  • No rating