Best Film of the Year: District 9

2009 Year in Review

Best Actor: George Clooney – Up in the Air
Best Actress: Shohreh Aghdashloo – The Stoning of Soraya M
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Schneider – Bright Star
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique – Precious
Best Director: Neill Blomkamp – District 9
Best Original Screenplay: (500) Days of Summer
Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best Score: The Infoamnt!
Best Song: “All Is Love” – Where the Wild Things Are
Best Editing: (500) Days of Summer
Best Cinematography: District 9
Best Production Design: District 9
Best Costume Design: Nine
Best Makeup: District 9
Best Sound: District 9
Best Sound Effects: District 9
Best Visual Effects: Avatar

Top Ten of 2009

District 9
Up in the Air
The Messenger
(500) Days of Summer
Up
The Hurt Locker
Summer Hours
The Princess and the Frog
Coraline
Inglourious Basterds

Honorable Mentions: Avatar, Il Divo, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Stoning of Soraya M, A Serious Man, Where the Wild Things Are, Whip It

— # —

9 (***) (Full Review)
(500) Days of Summer (****) (Full Review)
2012 (* ½) (Full Review)

— A —

Adventureland (**) (Short Review)
Alien Trespass (** ½) (Full Review)
Angels & Demons (* ½) (Full Review)
Avatar (*** ½) (Full Review)

— B —

The Big Gay Musical (***)
The Blind Side (***) (Full Review)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (** ½)
Bright Star (***) (Full Review)

— C —

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (*** ½) (Short Review)
Coco Before Chanel (*** ½) (Full Review)
The Collector (* ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Coraline (*** ½) (Full Review)
Crazy Heart (** ½) (Full Review)

— D —

Dance Flick (½ *) (Full Review) (Short Review)
District 9 (****) (Full Review)
Il Divo (*** ½) (Full Review)

— E —

Earth (***) (Full Review)
Eating Out: All You Can Eat (*)
An Education (****) (Short Review)
Exam (*** ½) (Full Review)

— F —

Fame (* ½)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (*** ½) (Full Review)
Faubourg 36 (** ½) (Full Review)

— G —

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (**) (Full Review)

— H —

Halloween II (* ½) (Full Review)
The Hangover (**) (Full Review)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (** ½) (Full Review)
Hollywood, Je t’aime (** ½)
The Human Centipede (*) (Short Review)
Humpday (***) (Full Review)
The Hurt Locker (*** ½) (Full Review)

— I —

I Sell the Dead (**) (Full Review)
In the Loop (***) (Full Review)
The Informant! (***) (Full Review)
Inglourious Basterds (*** ½) (Full Review)
Invictus (** ½) (Full Review)

— J —

Jennifer’s Body (*) (Full Review)
Julia (***) (Full Review)
Julie & Julia (** ½) (Full Review)

— L —

The Lovely Bones (***) (Full Review)

— M —

The Men Who Stare at Goats (***) (Full Review)
The Messenger (****) (Full Review)
Monsters vs. Aliens (** ½) (Full Review)
Moon (*** ½) (Full Review) (Short Review)

— N —

Nine (** ½) (Full Review)

— P —

Partly Cloudy (Short Film) (***)
Phoebe in Wonderland (***) (Full Review)
Ponyo (***) (Full Review)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (***) (Full Review)
The Princess and the Frog (*** ½) (Full Review)
Push (**) (Full Review)

— S —

Saw VI (**) (Full Review)
A Serious Man (*** ½) (Full Review)
A Single Man (****) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Sorority Row (**) (Full Review)
Stan Helsing (*) (Full Review) (Short Review)
Star Trek (***) (Full Review) (Short Review)
The Stoning of Soraya M (*** ½) (Full Review)
Summer Hours (*** ½)