The Best Films of 2009

By: Jack Kyser

My personal favorites of the year.

• 01
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 02
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 03
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 04
  A Prophet
  Jacques Audiard
• 05
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 06
  Crazy Heart
  Scott Cooper
• 07
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 08
  Passing Strange
  Spike Lee
• 09
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 10
  (500) Days of Summer
  Marc Webb
• 11
  Public Enemies
  Michael Mann
• 12
  The Messenger
  Oren Moverman
• 13
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 14
  Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  Lee Daniels
• 15
  Invictus
  Clint Eastwood
• 16
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 17
  An Education
  Lone Scherfig
• 18
  Broken Embraces
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 19
  Me and Orson Welles
  Richard Linklater
• 20
  The Informant!
  Steven Soderbergh
• 21
  Moon
  Duncan Jones
• 22
  State of Play
  Kevin Macdonald
• 23
  Up
  Pete Docter
• 24
  Goodbye Solo
  Ramin Bahrani
• 25
  The Road
  John Hillcoat
• 26
  The Brothers Bloom
  Rian Johnson
• 27
  Away We Go
  Sam Mendes
• 28
  Funny People
  Judd Apatow
• 29
  Whatever Works
  Woody Allen
• 30
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 31
  In the Loop
  Armando Iannucci
• 32
  Adventureland
  Greg Mottola
• 33
  The Lovely Bones
  Peter Jackson
• 34
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze
• 35
  Observe and Report
  Jody Hill
• 36
  Brüno
  Larry Charles
• 37
  Everybody's Fine
  Kirk Jones
• 38
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  Terry Gilliam