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2009 Critics' Picks
Aint it Cool News(Harry Knowles)
1 District 9
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Up
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 The Square
6 The Brothers Bloom
7Avatar
8 Moon
9 Bronson
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
Austin Chronicle(Marjorie Baumgarten)
1 Where the Wild Things Are
2 The Beaches of Agnes3A Single Man
4A Serious Man
5 The Hurt Locker
6 Summer Hours
7An Education
8 Up
9Antichrist
10 Bright Star
Austin Chronicle(Marc Savlov)
1 A Single Man
2 12
3 Moon
4Antichrist
5 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
6 The Cove
7 The Hurt Locker
8 Up
9 Inglourious Basterds
10 In the Loop
Austin Chronicle(Kimberley Jones)
1 A Serious Man
2 In the Loop
3 Moon
4 Where the Wild Things Are
5 Goodbye Solo
6Adventureland
7 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
8 Inglourious Basterds
9 The Hurt Locker
10 The Brothers Bloom
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Baltimore Sun(Michael Sragow)
1 The Exiles
2 The Hurt Locker
3 The Class
4 Up
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
7 Bright Star8 Cheri
9 Everlasting Moments
10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Boston Globe(Ty Burr)
1 A Serious Man
2 35 Shots of Rum
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Up
4 The Hurt Locker (tie) The Messenger
5 Up in the Air (tie) Summer Hours6 Bright Star (tie) The Last Station
7 Precious (tie) An Education
8A Single Man (tie) Bad Lieutenant
9 Star Trek (tie) Antichrist
10Afghan Star (tie) Big Fan
Boston Globe(Wesley Morris)
1 35 Shots of Rum
2 The White Ribbon
3 Police, Adjective
4Avatar
5 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
6 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
7 The Hurt Locker
8 The Baader Meinhof Complex
9 The Soloist
10 Valentino: The Last Emperor
Chicago Reader(Andrea Gronvall)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 The White Ribbon
3 Summer Hours
4 Still Walking (tie) Air Doll
5A Serious Man
6 Unmistaken Child
7 Il Divo
8 (500) Days of Summer
9 The Maid
10 District 9
Chicago Reader(J.R. Jones)
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1 Summer Hours
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Sita Sings the Blues
4 In the Loop
5 The Baader Meinhof Complex
6 The Class
7 Stranded
8 Goodbye Solo
9 Worlds Greatest Dad10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
Chicago Sun-Times(Roger Ebert)
1 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 1 Departures
2 Crazy Heart 2 Disgrace
3An Education 3 Everlasting Moments
4 The Hurt Locker 4 Goodbye, Solo
5 Inglourious Basterds 5 Julia
6 Knowing 6 Silent Light
7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 7 Sin Nombre
8A Serious Man 8 Skin
9 Up in the Air 9 Trucker
10 The White Ribbon 10 You, the Living
Chicago Tribune(Michael Phillips)
1 Up
2 Where the Wild Things Are
3 Waltz with Bashir
4 Of Time and the City
5 The Hurt Locker
6A Serious Man
7 In the Loop
8 Sugar
9 Me and Orson Welles
10A Single Man
Christian Science Monitor(Peter Rainer)
1 Everlasting Moments
2 In the Loop
3 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
4 Me and Orson Welles
5 Ponyo
6 Seraphine
7 Sugar
8 Treeless Mountain
9 Unmistaken Child
10 Up in the Air
Cinematical(Jeffrey M. Anderson)
1 The Hurt Locker
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2 Coraline
3 Bright Star
4 Red Cliff
5 You, the Living
6 35 Shots of Rum
7 Drag Me to Hell
8 Sita Sings the Blues
9 Inglourious Basterds
10Adventureland
Cinematical(Todd Gilchrist)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Crazy Heart
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 The Messenger
6 Up
7 Bronson
8 House of the Devil
9 District 9
10 Funny People
CityNews Toronto(Brian McKechnie)
1 Up in the Air
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Where the Wild Things Are
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
5 Polytechnique
6 The Hangover
7 Food, Inc.
8Avatar9 Star Trek
10 District 9
11 Moon
12 Sunshine Cleaning
Empire
1 Let the Right One In
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Up
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Star Trek6 The Wrestler
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 In the Loop
9 District 9
10 Coraline
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Entertainment Weekly(Lisa Schwarzbaum)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up
3 Coraline
4 Up in the Air
5 Where the Wild Things Are
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7A Serious Man8 Big Fan
9 District 9
10 Everlasting Moments
Entertainment Weekly(Owen Gleiberman)
1 Up in the Air
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
4 I love You, Man
5 Food, Inc.
6 (500) Days of Summer
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 The Girlfriend Experience
9 The Hurt Locker
10Adventureland
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(Dre Rivas)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2Avatar
3 In the Loop
4 Public Enemies
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 The Brothers Bloom
7 The Informant!
8A Serious Man
9 Star Trek
10 Thirst
Film.com(Christine Champ)
1 District 9
2 Bright Star
3 Moon
4 Inglourioius Basterds
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 Sin Nombre
7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
8 Up in the Air
9 The Hurt Locker
10 Sherlock Holmes
Film.com(Laremy Legel)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 In the Loop
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 Star Trek
5 Sherlock Holmes
6 Up
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 The Hangover
9 The Brothers Bloom
10Away We Go
Film.com(Jen Yamato)
1 The Beaches of Agnes
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 Up
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Bronson
6 Where the Wild Things Are
7 The Messenger
8An Education
9 District 9
10 (500) Days of Summer
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The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Liam Lacey)
1 Avatar
2 Up in the Air
3 Up
4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
5 Inglourious Basterds
6 Hunger
7 Summer Hours8 An Education
9 The Hurt Locker
10 Tulpan
The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Johanna Schneller)
1 Summer Hours
2 The Road
3 The Last Station
4 Up in the Air
5 The White Ribbon
6 Hunger
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 An Education
9 The Hurt Locker
10 A Serious Man
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Hollywood Reporter(Kirk Honeycutt)
1 The White Ribbon
2 Up
3 Precious
4 The Hurt Locker
5 District 9
6Avatar
7 The Cove8 In the Loop
9A Serious Man
10 Up in the Air
Hollywood Reporter(Sheri Linden)
1 The White Ribbon
2 District 9
3 Police, Adjective
4 Summer Hours
5 Bright Star
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7 Big Fan
8 Of Time and the City
9 The Cove
10 Up
Hollywood Reporter(Stephen Farber)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Last Station
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Precious
5 The Cove
6 The Princess and the Frog
7 My One and Only
8 Lemon Tree
9Adam
10 Seraphine
Hollywood Reporter(Ray Bennett)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker3 Tulpan
4 Bright Star
5 Moon
6 Summer Hours
7 Up
8 Star Trek
9 Broken Embraces
10Avatar
Hollywood Reporter(Frank Scheck)
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1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
4 Up
5 Inglourious Basterds
6A Single Man
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 Invictus
9 The Messenger10 The Last Station
Hollywood Reporter(Michael Rechtshaffen)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Up
4An Education
5 Everlasting Moments
6 Coraline
7 The Cove
8 Broken Embraces
9 The Hangover
10Avatar
LA Weekly(Scott Foundas)
1 The White Ribbon
2 Inglourious Basterds (tie) Police, Adjective
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Public Enemies
5Avatar6 District 9 (tie) Invictus
7 24 City (tie) Up in the Air
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Where the Wild Things Are
9 The Headless Woman
10 The Beaches of Agnes (tie) Passing Strange (tie) Tyson
LA Weekly(Ella Taylor)
1 Hurt Locker
2 Up
3 Worlds Greatest Dad
4 Police, Adjective
5 Still Walking
6 Tulpan
7 35 Shots of Rum
8 Coraline
9 Big Fan
10 Il Divo
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Los Angeles Times(Kenneth Turan)
1 Bright Star (tie) The Hurt Locker
2An Education
3Avatar
4 Children of Sundance
5 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
6 Julie & Julia
7 Music and sports documentaries8 Up
9 Up in the Air
10 Women overseas on the verge of nervous breakdown
Los Angeles Times(Betsy Sharkey)
1 Up in the Air
2 Precious
3 The Hurt Locker
4 The Beaches of Agns
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox6An Education
7 District 9
8 Bright Star
9A Single Man
10 Two Lovers
McLeans Magazine(Brian D. Johnson)
1 Up in the Air
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3An Education
4 The Road
5 Bright Star
6A Serious Man
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 The Hurt Locker
9 The Cove
10Avatar
Metacritic.com(Marc Doyle)
1 Goodbye Solo
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Broken Embraces
5 In the Loop
6Avatar
7 The Hangover
8A Single Man
9 Bright Star
10Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Metro News (Toronto)
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(The Canadian Press)
1 An Education
2Avatar
3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
4 Bright Star
5 The Hurt Locker
6 I Killed My Mother
7 Polytechnique
8 The Trotsky
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
Miami Herald(Rene Rodriguez)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Inglourious Basterds
4A Serious Man
5 (500) Days of Summer
6 Public Enemies
7 In the Loop
8 Up
9 The Class
10 Star Trek
My PDF Scripts(Jeff Beck)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Watchmen
3 Star Trek
4 Up in the Air
5An Education
6 The Brothers Bloom
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 The Messenger
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10Away We Go
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National Post [Toronto](Chris Knight)
1 Avatar
2 O Horten
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 The Informant!
5 Cold Souls
6 Star Trek
7 The Cove8 The Damned United
9 Up
10 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
National Post [Toronto](Barry Hertz)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2A Serious Man
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 Tokyo Sonata
5 Up6 In the Loop
7 Humpday
8Avatar
9Anvil: The Story of Anvil
10 Funny People (tie) Observe and Report
National Post [Toronto](Vanessa Farquharson)
1 Up
2A Serious Man
3 The Men Who Stare at Goats
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 The Cove
6 Up in the Air
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 Big River Man
9 Where the Wild Things Are
10 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
National Post [Toronto](Ben Kaplan)
1 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2 Up in the Air
3 Inglourious Basterds
4A Serious Man
5 Funny People
6 The Informant!
7 Brno
8 Tyson
9 Zombieland
10Away We Go
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National Post [Toronto](Mark Medley)
1 Up
2 Inglourious Basterds
3Avatar
4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
5 The Hurt Locker
6 District 9
7Adventureland8 The Cove
9A Prophet
10 Whip It (tie) Star Trek
National Post [Toronto](Craig Courtice)
1 Up
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Tulpan
5 (500) Days of Summer
6 Gomorrah
7 Drag Me to Hell
8 The Informant!
9 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
10 Funny People
NPR(Robert Mondello)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Summer Hours
3 The Messenger
4 Seraphine
5A Single Man
6 Up
7 In the Loop
8 Up in the Air
9 The Cove
10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
New Orleans Times-Picayune(Mike Scott)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 Up4 District 9
5 Where the Wild Things Are
6 Moon
7 The Princess and the Frog
8 Star Trek
9 Inglourious Basterds
10 The Road
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New York Daily News(Elizabeth Weitzman)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 In the Loop
4 Up in the Air
5 Moon
6 Sita Sings the Blues
7 (500) Days of Summer8 Humpday
9 Racing Dreams
10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
New York Daily News(Joe Neumaier)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Where the Wild Things Are
4 Crazy Heart
5A Serious Man
6 Star Trek
7 Inglourious Basterds
8 Duplicity
9An Education
10 District 9
New York Magazine(David Edelstein)
1 Summer Hours
2 Everlasting Moments
3 Brothers
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 Tyson
6A Serious Man
7 Coraline
8 In the Loop
9 Food, Inc.
10 The Hurt Locker
11 Of Time and the City
12 Where the Wild Things Are
13Avatar
New York Post(Lou Lumenick)
1 Up in the Air
2 Up
3A Serious Man
4 Inglourious Basterds
5Avatar
6 Invictus
7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 In the Loop
10 Ponyo
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New York Post(V.A. Musetto)
1 Antichrist
2 Tony Manero
3 Lornas Silence
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
6 The White Ribbon
7 You, the Living8 Lake Tahoe
9 Home
10 Thirst
New York Post(Kyle Smith)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 Up
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 Watchmen
5 Funny People6 Up in the Air
7An Education
8 In the Loop
9 Of Time and the City
10 Shall We Kiss?
The New York Times(Stephen Holden)
1 Up in the Air
2 The White Ribbon
3 Still Walking4 The Messenger
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The Hurt Locker
7 The Headless Woman
8An Education
9 Summer Hours
10 Disgrace
The New York Times(A.O. Scott)
1 Where the Wild Things Are
2 The Hurt Locker In the Loop
3 Summer Hours Of Time and the City
4 Up in the Air Funny People
5 Bright Star Medicine for Melancholy
6 Precious Coraline
7Avatar District 9
8A Serious Man Anvil! The Story of Anvil
9 Goodbye, Solo Sugar
10 Gomorrah The Baader Meinhof Complex
The New York Times(Manohla Dargis)
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1 Gomorrah
2 Tulpan
3 Summer Hours
4 The Hurt Locker
5 The Beaches of Agnes
6 Public Enemies
7 Beeswax
8 Ponyo
9 The Informant!10 Where the Wild Things Are
11 Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 The Sun
13Avatar
The New Yorker(Anthony Lane)
1 Star Trek
2 Up
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 Coraline
5 Up in the Air
6 Gomorrah
7Anvil! The Story of Anvil
8 The White Ribbon
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The New Yorker(David Denby)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 The White Ribbon
3 The Messenger
4 Funny People
5Adventureland
6 Up
7 The Last Station
8 Me and Orson Welles
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 Up in the Air
Newsweek(David Ansen)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Summer Hours
3 Up in the Air
4 In the Loop
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 Up
7 Sraphine
8 Rudo y Cursi
9Avatar
10An Education
11 Tulpan
12 Sin Nombre
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Now Magazine(Norman Wilner)
1 A Serious Man
2 Hunger
3 Summer Hours
4 Wendy and Lucy
5 Up
6 Tokyo Sonata
7 Where the Wild Things Are8 The Class
9 The Cove
10 Polytechnique
Now Magazine(Susan G. Cole)
1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
2 The Necessities of Life
3 Departures
4 My Sisters Keeper
5 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
6 One Week7Away we Go
8 Tibet in Song
9 The Boys are Back
10 Julie & Julia
The Onion AV Club(Noel Murray)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2A Serious Man
3 Public Enemies
4 Up5 Still Walking
6 Julia
7 Duplicity
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 Funny People
10 Passing Strange
The Onion AV Club(Keith Phipps)
1 A Serious Man
2 In the Loop
3 Where the Wild Things Are4 Gomorrah
5 Broken Embraces
6Antichrist
7 Fantastic Mr. Fox
8 Summer Hours
9 The White Ribbon
10 The Hurt Locker
The Onion AV Club(Nathan Rabin)
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1 Big Fan
2A Serious Man
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 In the Loop
5 The Hurt Locker
6 Humpday
7 Collapse
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 Passing Strange10An Education
The Onion AV Club(Tasha Robinson)
1 Where the Wild Things Are
2 The Hurt Locker
3 District 9
4 Ponyo
5 The Informant!
6 The Brothers Bloom
7 Julia
8 Coraline
9 Big Fan
10 Moon
The Onion AV Club(Scott Tobias)
1 35 Shots of Rum
2 Duplicity
3 Humpday
4 Collapse
5 Julia
6Afterschool7 Revanche
8 The House of the Devil
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 The Hurt Locker
Philadelphia Inquirer(Steven Rea)
1 Avatar
2 Bright Star
3 An Education
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox5 Goodbye Solo
6 The Hurt Locker
7 A Serious Man
8 Sugar
9 35 Shots of Rum
10 Up in the Air
Philadelphia Inquirer(Carrie Rickey)
1 Avatar
2 The Beaches of Agns
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3 Bright Star
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Il Divo
6 I Love You, Man
7 Julie & Julia
8 Ponyo
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
Portland Oregonian(Shawn Levy)
1 An Education
2 The Beaches of Agns
3Avatar (tie) Star Trek
4A Serious Man
5 The Damned United
6 Broken Embraces
7 Revanche
8 Coraline (tie) Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 The Lovely Bones
10 Up in the Air
Portland Oregonian(Marc Mohan)
1 Hunger
2A Serious Man
3 Summer Hours
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 Goodbye Solo
7 Star Trek
8 The Cove9 Somers Town
10Avatar
Portland Oregonian(Mike Russell)
1 In the Loop
2A Serious Man
3 Star Trek
4 Whip It
5 Drag Me to Hell
6 Moon7 District 9
8 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
9 Observe and Report
10 The Brothers Bloom
Premiere(Critics Staff)
1 Avatar
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 District 9
4 The Hurt Locker
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5 Star Trek
6 The Hangover
7 (500) Days of Summer
8 Up
9 Up in the Air
10 Where the Wild Things Are
ReelViews
(James Berardinelli)
1 Avatar
2 Inglourious Basterds
3 Up in the Air
4Adventureland
5 The Hurt Locker
6 (500) Days of Summer
7 District 9
8 Precious
9An Education
10A Serious Man
Rolling Stone(Peter Travers)
1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
2 Up in the Air
3 The Hurt Locker
4 An Education
5 Up
6 Where the Wild Things Are
7 A Serious Man
8 District 9
9 (500) Days of Summer
10 The Messenger
Salon(Andrew O'Hehir)
1 Hunger
2 Bronson
3 Il Divo
4A Serious Man
5 The White Ribbon
6 The Limits of Control
7 Serbis
8 35 Shots or Rum
9 Gomorrah
10 The Headless Woman
Salon(Stephanie Zacharek)
1 Summer Hours
2 Fantastic Mr. Fox
3Antichrist
4 The September Issue
5 Bright Star
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6 Coraline
7 The International
8 Lake Tahoe
9 Broken Embraces
10 Star Trek
San Francisco Chronicle(Peter Hartlaub)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 District 9
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 Coraline
6 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
7Avatar
8 The Cove
9 The Damned United
10Adventureland
San Francisco Chronicle
(Mick LaSalle)
1 Inglourious Basterds
2 The Hurt Locker
3 Up in the Air
4 Two Lovers
5 Revanche
6 Funny People
7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
8 Cheri
9 Summer Hours
10 Food, Inc.
Slate(Dana Stevens)
1 Adventureland
2 The Beaches of Agnes
3 Crazy Heart
4 Drag Me to Hell
5 Fantastic Mr. Fox
6 The Hurt Locker
7 In the Loop
8 Lornas Silence
9 The Maid
10 Ponyo
St. Louis Post Dispatch(Joe Williams)
1 (500) Days of Summer
2Anvil! The Story of Anvil
3An Education
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 The Hurt Locker
6 The Informant!
7 Inglourious Basterds
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8 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
9 Up
10 Up in the Air
Time Magazine(Richard Corliss)
1 The Princess and the Frog
2 Up
3 Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 The Hurt Locker
5 Up in the Air
6 The White Ribbon
7A Single Man
8 Of Time and the City
9 District 9
10 Thirst
Time-Out New York(David Fears)
1 35 Shots of Rum
2 Summer Hours
3 The Hurt Locker
4 Sugar
5 The Headless Woman
6A Serious Man
7 Hunger
8 Still Walking
9 Treeless Mountain
10 Bronson
Time-Out New York(Joshua Rothkopf)
1 A Serious Man
2 Still Walking
3 Two Lovers
4 Star Trek
5 The Hurt Locker
6Anvil! The Story of Anvil
7 Summer Hours
8 The House of the Devil
9 Somers Town
10 Funny People
Time-Out New York(Keith Uhlich)
1 The Limits of Control
2 Night and Days
3 California Dreamin
4 Two Lovers
5 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
6 Lornas Silence
7 Public Enemies
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8A Christmas Carol
9 The Box
10 Inglourious Basterds
The Toronto Star(Peter Howelll)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 The White Ribbon4 The Cove
5An Education
6 The Hangover
7 Coraline
8 Inglourious Basterds
9 Fantastic Mr. Fox
10A Serious Man
The Toronto Sun(Jim Slotek)
1 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
3 The Road
4 Star Trek
5 Up
6Anvil: The Story of Anvil
7 The Cove
8 In the Loop
9 The Hangover
10Avatar
USA Today(Anthony Breznican)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up
3 Up in the Air
4 Sin Nombre
5 Sugar
6 (500) Days of Summer
7 District 9
8 Inglourious Basterds
9A Serious Man
10 Summer Hours
Village Voice
(J. Hoberman)1 The Hurt Locker
2 Hunger
3 Police, Adjective
4 Im Gonna Explode
5 Coraline
6 The Sun
7 The Beaches of Agns
8 The Headless Woman
9 Inglourious Basterds
10 Red Cliff
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11 The Girllfriend Experience
Village Voice(Poll Results by Various)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Summer Hours
3A Serious Man
4 Inglourious Basterds
5 35 Shots of Rum
6 The Headless Woman
7 Police, Adjective
8 Fantastic Mr. Fox
9 Two Lovers
10 Up
Wall Street Journal(Joe Morgenstern)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 An Education
3 Avatar
4 Crazy Heart5 District 9
6 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
7 Sin Nombre
8 Summer Hours
9 Up in the Air
10 Where the Wild Things Are
Washington Post(Ann Hornaday)
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
4 Sugar
5 The Baader Meinhof Complex
6Anvil! The Story of Anvil
7 Star Trek
8 District 9
9 Where the Wild Things Are
10 Humpday
Metacritic.com(Users Consensus)
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Summary of 2009 Critics Top Ten Lists
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24 City
35 Shots of Rum
(500) Days of Summer
Act of God
Adam
Adventureland
Afghan Star
Afterschool
Air Doll
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Antichrist
Avatar
Away We Go
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
The Beaches of Agnes
Beeswax
Big Fan
Big River Man
The Box
The Boys are Back
Bright Star
Broken Embraces
Bronson
Brothers
The Brothers Bloom
Brno
California Dreamin
Cheri
Children of Sundance
A Christmas Carol
The Class
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cold Souls
Collapse
Coraline
The Cove
Crazy Heart
The Damned United
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La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Departures
Disgrace
District 9
Il Divo
Drag Me to Hell
Duplicity
An Education
Everlasting Moments
The Exiles
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Food, Inc.
Funny People
The Girlfriend Experience
Gomorrah
Goodbye Solo
The Hangover
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
The Headless Woman
Home
House of the Devil
Humpday
Hunger
The Hurt Locker
I Killed My Mother
I Love You, Man
Im Gonna Explode
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
In the Loop
The Informant!
Inglourious Basterds
The International
InvictusIts not me, I swear!
Julia
Julie & Julia
Knowing
Lake Tahoe
The Last Station
Lemon Tree
Let the Right One In
The Limits of Control
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Lornas Silence
The Lovely Bones
The Maid
Me and Orson Welles
Medicine for Melancholy
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Messenger
Moon
My One and Only
My Sisters Keeper
My son, my son, what have ye done?
The Necessities of Life
Night and Days
O Horten
Observe and Report
Of Time and the City
One Week
Passing Strange
A Perfect Getaway
Police, Adjective
Polytechnique
Ponyo
Precious: Based on the Novel Push
The Princess and the Frog
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
A Prophet
Public Enemies
Racing Dreams
Red Cliff
Revanche
The Road
Rudo y Cursi
The September Issue
Sraphine
Serbis
A Serious Man
Shall We Kiss?
Sherlock Holmes
Silent Light
Sin Nombre
A Single Man
Sita Sings the Blues
Skin
Slumdog Millionaire
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The Soloist
Somers Town
The Square
Star Trek
Still Walking
Stranded
Sugar
Summer Hours
The Sun
Sunshine Cleaning
Thirst
Tibet in Song
Tokyo Sonata
Tony Manero
Treeless Mountain
The Trotsky
Trucker
Two Lovers
Tulpan
Tyson
Unmistaken Child
Up
Up in the Air
Valentino: The Last Emperor
Waltz with Bashir
WatchmenWendy and Lucy
Where the Wild Things Are
Whip It
The White Ribbon
Worlds Greatest Dad
The Wrestler
You, the Living
Zombieland
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Summary of 2009 Critics Top 10 Lists
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Up in the Air
3 Inglourious Basterds
4 Up
5A Serious Man
6 Fantastic Mr. Fox
7Avatar
8 Summer Hours
9 District 9
10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
11 Where the Wild Things Are
12 In the Loop
13An Education
14 The White Ribbon
15 Star Trek
16 Bright Star
17 35 Shots of Rum
18 Hunger
19 (500) Days of Summer
20 Coraline
21 The Cove
22 The Beaches of Agns
23 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans