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Books by p. scaruffi:
A History of Jazz, A History of Rock, and A History of Popular Music |
Best Movies of 2009 |
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Best movies of all times | Movie reviews | Back to the Cinema page
Best of the decade | Best of 2008 | Best of 2010
The following list averages the opinions of my favorite critics plus mine.
Foreign movies show sometimes a year later, so if you can't find a title, check last year's ratings.
Special section: The 2009 Film Festivals
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Ratings for the 2009 season
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MUST SEE...:
7.2 Sophie Barthes: Cold Souls 7.1 Paul McGuigan: Push 7.1 Shane Acker: 9 7.0 Andrew Bujalski: Beeswax 7.0 Tony Gilroy: Duplicity 7.0 Francis Ford Coppola: Tetro 7.0 Bent Hamer: O'Horten 7.0 Yoji Yamada: Kabei 7.0 Steve McQueen: Hunger 7.0 Henry Selick: Coraline 7.0 Barry Jenkins: Medicine for Melancholy 7.0 Milcho Manchevski: Shadows 7.0 Ramin Bahrani: Goodbye Solo 7.0 Michael Keaton: The Merry Gentleman 7.0 Bouli Lanners: Eldorado 7.0 Michael Mann: Public Enemies 7.0 Pablo Larrain: Tony Manero 7.0 Fernando Eimbcke: Lake Tahoe 7.0 Karen Shakhnazarov: The Vanished Empire 7.0 Marc webb: (500) Days of Summer 7.0 Ulrich Seidi: Import Export 7.0 Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking. 7.0 Lu Chuan: City Of Life And Death  7.0 Jonathan Parker: (Untitled)
7.0 Hong Sang-soo: Night and Day |
SO SO...:
6.9 Jan Troell: Everlasting Moments 6.9 Jim Jarmusch: The Limits of Control 6.9 Rian Johnson: The Brothers Bloom 6.9 Alain Resnais: Wild Grass 6.9 Pablo Trapero: Lion's Den 6.9 Armando Iannucci: In the Loop 6.8 Michael Haneke: The White Ribbon 6.8 Joji Fukunaga: Sin Nombre 6.8 Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker 6.8 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne: Lorna's Silence 6.8 David Thowy: A Perfect Getaway 6.8 Neill Blomkamp: District 9 6.6 Atom Egoyan: Adoration 6.5 Craig Baldwin: Mock Up on Mu 6.5 Antonio Campos: Afterschool 6.5 Werner Herzog: Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call New Orleans 6.5 Jason Reitman: Up in the Air 6.5 Jane Campion: Bright Star 6.5 Doris Dorrie: Cherry Blossoms 6.5 Ole Bornedal: Just Another Love Story 6.5 Teresa Prata: Sleepwalking Land 6.5 Andrzej Wajda: Katyn 6.5 Astra Taylor: Examined Life 6.5 John Maybury: The Edge of Love 6.5 Majid Majidi: The Song of Sparrows 6.5 Anna Broinowski: Forbidden Lies 6.5 Alex Rivera: Sleep Dealer 6.5 Gotz Spielmann: Revanche 6.5 Mary Haverstick: Home 6.5 Carlos Sorin: The Window 6.5 Steven Soderbergh: The Girlfriend Experience 6.5 Harold Ramis: Year One 6.5 Max Farberbock: A Woman in Berlin 6.5 Park Chan-wook: Thirst 6.5 Li Ying: Yasukuni 6.5 Richard Loncraine: My One And Only 6.5 Cherien Dabis: Amreeka 6.5 Karyn Kusama: Jennifer's Body 6.5 Steve Jacobs: Disgrace 6.5 Cedric Klapisch: Paris 6.5 Lone Scherfig: An Education 6.5 Oren Peli: Paranormal Activity 6.5 Spike Jonze: Where the Wild Things Are 6.5 Sebasti n Silva: The Maid 6.5 Adolfo Borinaga Alix: Adela 6.5 Paul Weitz: Cirque Du Freak - The Vampire's Assistant |
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Passable...:
6.4 Lars von Trier: Antichrist 6.3 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra: Delhi-6 6.2 Pete Docter: Up 6.2 Sam Mendes: Away We Go 6.2 Jonas Pate: Shrink 6.1 Jia Zhang-ke: 24 City 6.1 Ang Lee: Taking Woodstock 6.0 Michael Bay: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 6.0 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen: A Serious Man 6.0 Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson: The Invention of Lying 6.0 Michel Scott: The Horse Boy 6.0 Nick Cassavetes: My Sister's Keeper 6.0 George Gallo: Local Color 6.0 Martin Provost: Seraphine 6.0 James Gray: Two Lovers 6.0 Brillante Mendoza: Serbis 6.0 Nikhil Advani: Chandni Chowk to China 6.0 Olly Blackburn: Donkey Punch 6.0 Thor Freudenthal: Hotel for Dogs 6.0 Zoya Akhtar: Luck by Chance 6.0 Josh Fox: Memorial Day 6.0 Will Gluck: Fired Up 6.0 Edward Zwick: Defiance 6.0 Wayne Kramer: Crossing Over 6.0 Christophe Honore: La Belle Personne 6.0 Carlos Saura: Fados 6.0 Philippe Garrel: Frontier of Dawn 6.0 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Tokyo Sonata 6.0 Riger Tucker: Waiting for Dublin 6.0 John Hamburg: I Love You, Man 6.0 Rob Letterman: Monsters vs. Aliens 6.0 Bohdam Slama: The Country Teacher 6.0 Mark Brokaw: Spinning Into Butter 6.0 Emmanuel Mouret: Shall We Kiss? 6.0 Greg Mottola: Adventureland 6.0 Matt Aselton: Gigantic 6.0 Rupert Wyatt: The Escapist 6.0 Eran Riklis: Lemon Tree 6.0 Burr Steers: 17 Again 6.0 Dito Montiel: Fighting 6.0 Carlos Cuaron: Rudo y Cursi 6.0 Erick Zonca: Julia 6.0 Christian Petzold: Jerichow 6.0 Ken Jacobs: Anaglyph Tom 6.0 Quentin Tarantino: Inglorious Basterds 6.0 Damien Dante Wayans: Dance Flick 6.0 Sam Raimi: Drag Me to Hell 6.0 Navigating Ramallah: Laila's Birthday 6.0 Stephane Gauger: Owl and the Sparrow 6.0 Tony Scott: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 6.0 Anne Fontaine: The Girl From Monaco 6.0 Todd Phillips: The Hangover 6.0 Simon Brand: ParaĦso Travel 6.0 Judd Apatow: Funny People 6.0 Christian Madsen: Flame & Citron 6.0 Andreas Dresen: Cloud 9 6.0 Bobcat Goldthwait: World's Greatest Dad 6.0 Uli Edel: The Baader Meinhof Complex 6.0 Melvin Van Peebles: Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy Footed Mutha 6.0 Karl Skogland: Fifty Dead Men Walking 6.0 Robert Siegel: Big Fan 6.0 Alexis Dos Santos: Unmade Beds 6.0 Jeremy Davidson: Tickling Leo 6.0 Michael Mahonen: Sandstorm 6.0 Edwin: Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly 6.0 Steven Soderbergh: The Informant 6.0 Bob Byington: Harmony and Me 6.0 Scott Hicks: The Boys Are Back 6.0 Anne Fontaine: Coco Before Chanel 6.0 Tom Hooper: The Damned United 6.0 Jeff Stilson: Good Hair 6.0 Gary Gray: Law Abiding Citizen 6.0 Udayan Prasad: Opa 6.0 Prem Soni: Main Aur Mrs. Khanna 6.0 Ti West: The House of the Devil
6.0 Hans-Christian Schmid: Storm
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YUCK!...:
5.9 5.5 Bill Duke: Not Easily Broken 5.5 Robert Celestino: Yonkers Joe 5.5 Kyle Newman: Fanboys 5.5 Tony Stone: Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America 5.5 Mary Stuart Masterson: The Cake Eaters 5.5 Jody Hill: Observe and Report 5.5 Tim Disney: American Violet 5.5 Paul Morrison: Little Ashes 5.5 Ron Howard: Angels & Demons 5.5 Duncan Jones: Moon 5.5 Bruce McDonald: Pontypool 5.5 Woody Allen: Whatever Works 5.5 Lynn Shelton: Humpday 5.5 Rowan Woods: Fragments 5.5. Nora Ephron: Julie & Julia 5.5 Neal Brennan: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 5.5 Gerardo Naranjo: I'm Gonna Explode 5.0 Mark Webber: Explicit Ills 5.0 Mira Nair: Amelia 5.0 David Bowers: Astro Boy 5.0 Chelsea on the Rocks 5.0 Ruben Fleischer: Zombieland 5.0 Gary Winick: Bride Wars 5.0 Ken Kwapis: He's Just Not That Into You 5.0 Tom Tykwer: The International 5.0 PJ Hogan: Confessions of a Shopaholic 5.0 Vicente Amorim: Good 5.0 William Sten Olsson: An American Affair 5.0 Christine Jeffs: Sunshine Cleaning 5.0 Alexandre Aja: The Last House on the Left 5.0 Sean McGinly: The Great Buck Howard 5.0 Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck: Sugar 5.0 John Crowley: Is Anybody There 5.0 Slava Tsukerman: Perestroika 5.0 Gregor Jordan: The Informers 5.0 Joe Wright: The Soloist 5.0 Stephen Belber: Management 5.0 Stephan Elliott: Easy Virtue 5.0 Shawn Levy: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 5.0 Karey Kirkpatrick: Imagine That 5.0 Alain Cavalier: Le Combat dans l'Ile 5.0 Francois Velle: The Narrows 5.0 Stephen Frears: Cheri 5.0 Larry Charles: Bruno 5.0 Shane Meadows: Somers Time 5.0 Franny Armstrong: The Age of Stupid 5.0 John-Luke Montias: Off Jackson Avenue 5.0 John Hindman: The Answer Man 5.0 Hoyt Yeatman: G-Force 5.0 Robert Luketic: The Ugly Truth 5.0 Nick Jasenovec: Paper Heart 5.0 Dani Levy: My Fuhrer 5.0 Oliver Hirschbiegel: Five Minutes of Heaven 5.0 Spike Lee: Passing Strange 5.0 Robert Rodriguez: Shorts 5.0 Giancarlo Esposito: Gospel Hill 5.0 Dominic Sena: Whiteout 5.0 Laura Gabbert: No Impact Man 5.0 Richard Eyre: The Other Man 5.0 Bob Gosse: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell 5.0 Stanley Tucci: Blind Date 5.0 Nicolas Winding Refn: "Bronson" 5.0 "Stark Raving Black," Lewis Black 5.0 The Yes Men Fix the World 5.0 Jiang Wen: New York, I Love You 5.0 Scott Sanders: Black Dynamite 5.0 Katherine Dieckmann: Motherhood 5.0 Rohit Shetty: All the Best 5.0 Andrzej Krakowski: Looking for Palladin
5.0 Jared Hess: Gentlemen Broncos
5.0 Richard Temtchine: How to Seduce Difficult Women
5.0 Anthony Fabian: Skin
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GASP!...:
4.9 Zack Snyder: Watchmen 4.5 David Goyer: The Unborn 4.5 Daniel Barnz: Phoebe in Wonderland 4.5 Andy Fickman: Race to Witch Mountain 4.5 Christophe Barratier: Paris 36 4.5 Kevin Macdonald: State of Play 4.5 Aristomenis Tsirbas: Battle for Terra 4.5 Jonathan Glatzer: What Goes Up 4.5 Aaron Woodley: Tennessee 4.5 Anne Fletcher: The Proposal 4.5 Nia Vardalos: I Hate Valentine's Day 4.5 Chris Columbus: I Love You Beth Cooper 4.5 Jaume Collet-Serra: Orphan 4.5 Glenn McQuaid: I Sell the Dead 4.5 Todd Graff: Bandslam 4.5 David Mackenzie: Spread 4.5 Mike Judge: Extract 4.5 Peter Hyams: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 4.5 Brandon Camp: Love Happens 4.0 Casper Andreas: Between Love & Goodbye 4.0 Donald Petrie: My Life In Ruin 4.0 David Ondaatje: The Lodger 4.0 Emily Hubley: The Toe Tactic 4.0 George Tillman: Notorious 4.0 Georgiana Nestor: The Sublet 4.0 Guard Brothers: The Uninvited 4.0 Iain Softley: Inklet 4.0 Jonas Elmer: New In Town 4.0 Pierre Morel: Taken 4.0 Steve Carr: Paul Blart 4.0 Vadim Jean: The Color of Magic 4.0 Richard Ledes: The Caller 4.0 Marcus Nispel: Friday the 13th 4.0 Prachya Pinkaew: Chocolate 4.0 Zach Cregger: Miss March 4.0 Alex Proyas: Knowing 4.0 Justin Lin: Fast and Furious 4.0 R. W. Goodwin: Alien Trespass 4.0 Rawson Thurber: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 4.0 Gavin Hood: "X-Men Origins: Wolverine 4.0 Mark Waters: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 4.0 Tennyson Bardwell: The Skeptic 4.0 Lindsey Christian: Jazz in the Diamond District 4.0 Jennifer Lynch: Surveillance 4.0 Chris Nahon: Blood - The Last Vampire 4.0 JJ Abrams: Star Trek 4.0 David Yates: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 4.0 Morgan Freeman: Homecoming 4.0 Eileen Yaghoobian: Died Young, Stayed Pretty 4.0 Jorge Ameer: Sabor Tropical 4.0 Robert Schwentke: The Time Traveler's Wife 4.0 Phil Traill: All About Steve 4.0 Jonathan Mostow: Surrogates 4.0 Drew Barrymore: Whip It 4.0 James Mottern: Trucker 4.0 Peter Billingsley: Couples Retreat 4.0 Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai: Ong Bak 2 4.0 Bo Zenga: Stan Helsing 4.0 Troy Duffy: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
3.5 McG: Terminator Salvation 3.5 Carlos Saidanha: Ice Age 3.5 Brad Silberling: Land of the Lost 3.0 Harald Zwart: The Pink Panther 2 |
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