Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Films of 2009, Ranked Best to Worst

A list of the films I've seen that were released in 2009 (according to Letterboxd), ranked best to worst.

1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) *****
2. Antichrist (Lars Von Trier) *****
3. Raging Sun, Raging Sky (Julian Hernandez) *****
4. Redland (Asiel Norton) *****
5. Cut from Home (Jason Shahinfar) *****
6. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams) ****1/2
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev) ****1/2
8. The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter (Mike Dorsey) ****1/2
9. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) ****
10. Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson) ****
11. Watchmen (Zack Snyder) ****
12. The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock) ****
13. Adam (Max Mayer) ****
14. Cropsey (Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman) ****
15. Kabul 24 (Ben Pearson) ****
16. Jim Gaffigan: King Baby (Troy Miller) ****
17. Without Bias (Kirk Fraser) ****
18. The String (Le Fil) (Mehdi Ben Attia) ****
19. It Came from Kuchar (Jennifer M. Kroot) ****
20. Shank (Simon Pearce, Christian Martin) ****
21. Bled (Christopher Hutson) ****
22. Psychotropica (Damien Sage) ****
23. The Flying Scissors (Jonah Tulis) ****
24. Spoiler Alert (David Rakowiecki) ****
25. Soundless Wind Chime (Kit Hung) ****
26. Somewhere Between Here and Now (Olivier Boonjing) ****
27. The Hitchhiking Movie (Phillip Hullquist) ****
28. The Hangover (Todd Phillips) ***1/2
29. 17 Again (Burr Steers) ***1/2
30. Angels & Demons (Ron Howard) ***1/2
31. Terminator Salvation (McG) ***1/2
32. Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn) ***1/2
33. Carriers (David Pastor, Alex Pastor) ***1/2
34. Tales from the Script (Peter Hanson) ***1/2
35. The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements, John Musker) ***1/2
36. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (Gerald Peary) ***1/2
37. The Legend of Jimmy the Greek (Fritz Mitchell) ***1/2
38. Facing Extinction: Christians of Iraq (Robert Marcarelli) ***1/2
39. Extract (Mike Judge) ***
40. The Proposal (Anne Fletcher) ***
41. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood) ***
42. Crank: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) ***
43. Dug's Special Mission (Ronnie Del Carmen) ***
44. Reel Injun (Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes) ***
45. Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! (Norton Virgien) ***
46. Monsters vs Aliens (Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon) ***
47. American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier) ***
48. Nollywood Babylon (Ben Addelman, Samir Mallal) ***
49. Planet 51 (Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, Marcos Martinez) ***
50. Asylum Seekers (Rania Ajami) ***
51. Fruit Fly (H.P. Mendoza) ***
52. My One and Only (Richard Loncraine) ***
53. Slaughter Among Pigs (Nick Mathis) ***
54. Saberfrog (Curt Markham) ***
55. The Archive (Sean Dunne) ***
56. Dogging: A Love Story (Public Sex) (Simon Ellis) ***
57. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos) **1/2
58. Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Steve Carr) **1/2
59. Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel) **1/2
60. Ninja Assassin (James McTeigue) **1/2
61. Everybody's Fine (Kirk Jones) **1/2
62. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (Richard Shepard) **1/2
63. Mutantes (Virginie Despentes) **1/2
64. Streets of Blood (Charles Winkler) **1/2
65. Monsters, Marriage and Murder in Manchvegas (Charles Roxburgh) **1/2
66. Caught in the Game (Michael Merrill) **1/2
67. Halloween II (Rob Zombie) **
68. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Carlos Saldanha, Michael Thurmeier) **
69. Winter Nights (Kevin Y. Ling) **
70. Super Rhino (Nathan Greno) **
71. Dane Cook: Isolated Incident (no director credited) **
72. Idol of Evil (Kevin McDonagh) **
73. The Joneses (Derrick Borte) **
74. Laid to Rest (Robert Hall) *1/2
75. The Tournament (Scott Mann) *1/2
76. American: The Bill Hicks Story (Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas) *1/2
77. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (Lev L. Spiro) *1/2
78. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers) *1/2
79. Behind Enemy Lines III: Colombia (Tim Matheson) *1/2
80. B.O.B.'s Big Break (Robert Porter) *1/2
81. O.B.A.M. Nude (Rod Weber) *1/2
82. Avatar (James Cameron) *
83. 2012 (Roland Emmerich) *
84. The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (Tom Six)*
85. Princess Protection Program (Allison Liddi-Brown) *
86. Astro Boy (David Bowers) *
87. 12 Rounds (Renny Harlin) *
88. Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (Andrew Monument) *
89. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Peter Hyams) *
90. The Pit and the Pendulum (David DeCoteau) *
91. Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (Michael Feifer) *
92. Killer Shorts (Michael Wade Johnson) *
93. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) *
94. Wrecked (Bernard Shumanski, Harry Shumanski) *
95. Aisha Tyler Is Lit: Live at the Fillmore (Kerry Asmussen) *
96: 2012: Supernova (Anthony Fankhauser) 1/2*
97. The Cops Did It (Anthony Azar) 1/2*
98. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine) 1/2*

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