Das war's: Rückblick 2009 - Top 10 und so

10. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER(Marc Webb)

9. CORALINE
(Henry Selick)

8. BOY A
(John Crowley)

7. ZOMBIELAND
(Ruben Fleischer)

6. CITY OF BORDERS
(Yun Suh)

5. THE WRESTLER
(Darren Aronofsky)

4. REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
(Sam Mendes)

3. THE HURT LOCKER
(Kathryn Bigelow)

2. ANTICHRIST
(Lars von Trier)

1. MILK
(Gus Van Sant)

0½. SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
(Charlie Kaufman)

Runner Up's:

• Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
• Drifter (Sebastian Heidinger)
• Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten (Christoph Schlingensief, Cordula Kablitz-Post)
• Punisher: War Zone (Lexi Alexander)
• Zum Vergleich (Harun Farocki)
• Das Ende des Schweins ist der Anfang der Wurst (John Edward Heys)
• Gevald (Netalie Braun)
• Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
• Mesrine: L'instinct de mort (Public Enemy No. 1) (Jean-François Richet)
• Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
• Retouches (Georges Schwizgebel)
• Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee)
• Partly Cloudy (Peter Sohn)
• Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
• The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements, John Musker)

Gehobenes Mittelfeld:

• Bolt (Byron Howard, Chris Williams)
• Diary of the Dead (George Romero)
• High Life (Gary Yates)
• Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
• Queer Sarajevo Festival 2008 (Masa Hilcisin, Cazim Dervisevic)
• Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
• Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
• Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)

Annehmbar:

• Män som hatar kvinnor [Verblendung] (Niels Arden Oplev)
• Saw V (David Hackl)
• Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel)
• Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
• The Boat That Rocked (Richard Curtis)
• My Bloody Valentine 3D (Patrick Lussier)
• Brüno (Larry Charles)
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (David Yates)
• Fanboys (Kyle Newman)
• G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (Stephen Sommers)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• The Final Destination (David R. Ellis)
• Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chris Weitz)
• Ein Traum in Erdbeerfolie (Marco Wilms)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
• Avatar (James Cameron)

Blöd, aber kleinere Geistesblitze nicht ausgeschlossen:

• Twilight (Kathryn Hardwicke)
• Tanjong rhu (Junfeng Boo)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
• The Children (Tom Shankland)
• Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
• The Uninvited (Charles Guard, Thomas Guard)
• A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis)
• Saw VI (Kevin Greutert)
• Whatever Works (Woody Allen)
• Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)

Daneben:

• Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
• Valkyrie (Bryan Singer)
• Monsterland (Jörg Buttgereit)
• Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
• The Last House on the Left (Dennis Iliadis)
• Rückenwind (Jan Krüger)
• The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
• Che: Part One (Steven Soderbergh)
• Che: Part Two (Steven Soderbergh)
• 2012 (Roland Emmerich)

Brechmittel:

• Seven Pounds (Gabriele Muccino)
• End of Love (Simon Chung)
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (Darren Lynn Bousman)
• W. (Oliver Stone)
• His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (Daniel Farrands)
• Vingança (Retribution) (Paulo Pons)
• The Time Traveler's Wife (Robert Schwentke)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
• The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)
• Funny People (Judd Apatow)
• Terminator Salvation (McG)
• Rohtenburg (Martin Weisz)
• Public Enemies (Michael Mann)

Körperverletzung:

• The Spirit (Frank Miller)
• Obsessed (Steve Shill)
• Homecoming (Morgan J. Freeman)
• Zweiohrküken (Til Schweiger)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)

(berücksichtigt wurden ausschließlich deutsche Kino- oder DVD-Premieren-Starts und deutsche Festivaltermine)