My Favorite Films of 2009
This past year was a great year to be a cinematic connoisseur. Some critically-acclaimed movies made a killing at the box office; some summer blockbusters actually had great storytelling backing them up. While there were, of course, movies I hated to see do well, and others I thought should have made a larger splash, it always seemed like there was a movie worth getting excited about right around the corner.
A note about this list: I am intentionally not referring to this as the "best movies of 2009", as I am certainly not qualified to make that sort of base judgement. These are simply the ten movies that I saw in theatres that I enjoyed the most. Thankfully, many other people seemed to enjoy them as well, but I am entirely confident there are movies that would have made the list had I seen them at the appropriate time.
Here, in no particular order, are my top ten: