TOP 25 FILMS OF 2009

By: Andres Canella

The list is incomplete, as I have yet to see many of the major critically-acclaimed 2009 films.

In alphabetical order.

Missing from theauteurs.com to complete this list: KORKORO.

• 01
  Adventureland
  Greg Mottola
• 02
  Breathless
  Yang Ik-Joon
• 03
  Coraline
  Henry Selick
• 04
  The Cove
  Louie Psihoyos
• 05
  Departures
  Yôjirô Takita
• 06
  District 9
  Neill Blomkamp
• 07
  An Education
  Lone Scherfig
• 08
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 09
  Food, Inc.
  Robert Kenner
• 10
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 11
  The Informant!
  Steven Soderbergh
• 12
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino
• 13
  Julie & Julia
  Nora Ephron
• 14
  Polytechnique
  Denis Villeneuve
• 15
  Ponyo
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 16
  Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  Lee Daniels
• 17
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 18
  Sin nombre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 19
  Star Trek
  J.J. Abrams
• 20
  Sugar
  Anna Boden
• 21
  Summer Hours
  Olivier Assayas
• 22
  Tulpan
  Sergei Dvortsevoy
• 23
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 24
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke