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    2009 Critics' Picks

    Aint it Cool News(Harry Knowles)

    1 District 9

    2 Where the Wild Things Are

    3 Up

    4 Inglourious Basterds

    5 The Square

    6 The Brothers Bloom

    7Avatar

    8 Moon

    9 Bronson

    10 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Austin Chronicle(Marjorie Baumgarten)

    1 Where the Wild Things Are

    2 The Beaches of Agnes3A Single Man

    4A Serious Man

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 Summer Hours

    7An Education

    8 Up

    9Antichrist

    10 Bright Star

    Austin Chronicle(Marc Savlov)

    1 A Single Man

    2 12

    3 Moon

    4Antichrist

    5 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    6 The Cove

    7 The Hurt Locker

    8 Up

    9 Inglourious Basterds

    10 In the Loop

    Austin Chronicle(Kimberley Jones)

    1 A Serious Man

    2 In the Loop

    3 Moon

    4 Where the Wild Things Are

    5 Goodbye Solo

    6Adventureland

    7 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

    8 Inglourious Basterds

    9 The Hurt Locker

    10 The Brothers Bloom

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    Baltimore Sun(Michael Sragow)

    1 The Exiles

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 The Class

    4 Up

    5 Waltz with Bashir

    6 Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

    7 Bright Star8 Cheri

    9 Everlasting Moments

    10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    Boston Globe(Ty Burr)

    1 A Serious Man

    2 35 Shots of Rum

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Up

    4 The Hurt Locker (tie) The Messenger

    5 Up in the Air (tie) Summer Hours6 Bright Star (tie) The Last Station

    7 Precious (tie) An Education

    8A Single Man (tie) Bad Lieutenant

    9 Star Trek (tie) Antichrist

    10Afghan Star (tie) Big Fan

    Boston Globe(Wesley Morris)

    1 35 Shots of Rum

    2 The White Ribbon

    3 Police, Adjective

    4Avatar

    5 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    6 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

    7 The Hurt Locker

    8 The Baader Meinhof Complex

    9 The Soloist

    10 Valentino: The Last Emperor

    Chicago Reader(Andrea Gronvall)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 The White Ribbon

    3 Summer Hours

    4 Still Walking (tie) Air Doll

    5A Serious Man

    6 Unmistaken Child

    7 Il Divo

    8 (500) Days of Summer

    9 The Maid

    10 District 9

    Chicago Reader(J.R. Jones)

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    1 Summer Hours

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Sita Sings the Blues

    4 In the Loop

    5 The Baader Meinhof Complex

    6 The Class

    7 Stranded

    8 Goodbye Solo

    9 Worlds Greatest Dad10 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Chicago Sun-Times(Roger Ebert)

    1 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 1 Departures

    2 Crazy Heart 2 Disgrace

    3An Education 3 Everlasting Moments

    4 The Hurt Locker 4 Goodbye, Solo

    5 Inglourious Basterds 5 Julia

    6 Knowing 6 Silent Light

    7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 7 Sin Nombre

    8A Serious Man 8 Skin

    9 Up in the Air 9 Trucker

    10 The White Ribbon 10 You, the Living

    Chicago Tribune(Michael Phillips)

    1 Up

    2 Where the Wild Things Are

    3 Waltz with Bashir

    4 Of Time and the City

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6A Serious Man

    7 In the Loop

    8 Sugar

    9 Me and Orson Welles

    10A Single Man

    Christian Science Monitor(Peter Rainer)

    1 Everlasting Moments

    2 In the Loop

    3 La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

    4 Me and Orson Welles

    5 Ponyo

    6 Seraphine

    7 Sugar

    8 Treeless Mountain

    9 Unmistaken Child

    10 Up in the Air

    Cinematical(Jeffrey M. Anderson)

    1 The Hurt Locker

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    2 Coraline

    3 Bright Star

    4 Red Cliff

    5 You, the Living

    6 35 Shots of Rum

    7 Drag Me to Hell

    8 Sita Sings the Blues

    9 Inglourious Basterds

    10Adventureland

    Cinematical(Todd Gilchrist)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Crazy Heart

    4 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    5 The Messenger

    6 Up

    7 Bronson

    8 House of the Devil

    9 District 9

    10 Funny People

    CityNews Toronto(Brian McKechnie)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Where the Wild Things Are

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    5 Polytechnique

    6 The Hangover

    7 Food, Inc.

    8Avatar9 Star Trek

    10 District 9

    11 Moon

    12 Sunshine Cleaning

    Empire

    1 Let the Right One In

    2 Slumdog Millionaire

    3 Up

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 Star Trek6 The Wrestler

    7 Inglourious Basterds

    8 In the Loop

    9 District 9

    10 Coraline

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    Entertainment Weekly(Lisa Schwarzbaum)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up

    3 Coraline

    4 Up in the Air

    5 Where the Wild Things Are

    6 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    7A Serious Man8 Big Fan

    9 District 9

    10 Everlasting Moments

    Entertainment Weekly(Owen Gleiberman)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 Inglourious Basterds

    3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    4 I love You, Man

    5 Food, Inc.

    6 (500) Days of Summer

    7 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    8 The Girlfriend Experience

    9 The Hurt Locker

    10Adventureland

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    (Dre Rivas)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2Avatar

    3 In the Loop

    4 Public Enemies

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    6 The Brothers Bloom

    7 The Informant!

    8A Serious Man

    9 Star Trek

    10 Thirst

    Film.com(Christine Champ)

    1 District 9

    2 Bright Star

    3 Moon

    4 Inglourioius Basterds

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    6 Sin Nombre

    7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    8 Up in the Air

    9 The Hurt Locker

    10 Sherlock Holmes

    Film.com(Laremy Legel)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2 In the Loop

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    4 Star Trek

    5 Sherlock Holmes

    6 Up

    7 (500) Days of Summer

    8 The Hangover

    9 The Brothers Bloom

    10Away We Go

    Film.com(Jen Yamato)

    1 The Beaches of Agnes

    2 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    3 Up

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 Bronson

    6 Where the Wild Things Are

    7 The Messenger

    8An Education

    9 District 9

    10 (500) Days of Summer

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    The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Liam Lacey)

    1 Avatar

    2 Up in the Air

    3 Up

    4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    5 Inglourious Basterds

    6 Hunger

    7 Summer Hours8 An Education

    9 The Hurt Locker

    10 Tulpan

    The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Johanna Schneller)

    1 Summer Hours

    2 The Road

    3 The Last Station

    4 Up in the Air

    5 The White Ribbon

    6 Hunger

    7 (500) Days of Summer

    8 An Education

    9 The Hurt Locker

    10 A Serious Man

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    Hollywood Reporter(Kirk Honeycutt)

    1 The White Ribbon

    2 Up

    3 Precious

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 District 9

    6Avatar

    7 The Cove8 In the Loop

    9A Serious Man

    10 Up in the Air

    Hollywood Reporter(Sheri Linden)

    1 The White Ribbon

    2 District 9

    3 Police, Adjective

    4 Summer Hours

    5 Bright Star

    6 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    7 Big Fan

    8 Of Time and the City

    9 The Cove

    10 Up

    Hollywood Reporter(Stephen Farber)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Last Station

    3 The Hurt Locker

    4 Precious

    5 The Cove

    6 The Princess and the Frog

    7 My One and Only

    8 Lemon Tree

    9Adam

    10 Seraphine

    Hollywood Reporter(Ray Bennett)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker3 Tulpan

    4 Bright Star

    5 Moon

    6 Summer Hours

    7 Up

    8 Star Trek

    9 Broken Embraces

    10Avatar

    Hollywood Reporter(Frank Scheck)

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    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    4 Up

    5 Inglourious Basterds

    6A Single Man

    7 (500) Days of Summer

    8 Invictus

    9 The Messenger10 The Last Station

    Hollywood Reporter(Michael Rechtshaffen)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Up

    4An Education

    5 Everlasting Moments

    6 Coraline

    7 The Cove

    8 Broken Embraces

    9 The Hangover

    10Avatar

    LA Weekly(Scott Foundas)

    1 The White Ribbon

    2 Inglourious Basterds (tie) Police, Adjective

    3 The Hurt Locker

    4 Public Enemies

    5Avatar6 District 9 (tie) Invictus

    7 24 City (tie) Up in the Air

    8 Fantastic Mr. Fox (tie) Where the Wild Things Are

    9 The Headless Woman

    10 The Beaches of Agnes (tie) Passing Strange (tie) Tyson

    LA Weekly(Ella Taylor)

    1 Hurt Locker

    2 Up

    3 Worlds Greatest Dad

    4 Police, Adjective

    5 Still Walking

    6 Tulpan

    7 35 Shots of Rum

    8 Coraline

    9 Big Fan

    10 Il Divo

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    Los Angeles Times(Kenneth Turan)

    1 Bright Star (tie) The Hurt Locker

    2An Education

    3Avatar

    4 Children of Sundance

    5 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

    6 Julie & Julia

    7 Music and sports documentaries8 Up

    9 Up in the Air

    10 Women overseas on the verge of nervous breakdown

    Los Angeles Times(Betsy Sharkey)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 Precious

    3 The Hurt Locker

    4 The Beaches of Agns

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox6An Education

    7 District 9

    8 Bright Star

    9A Single Man

    10 Two Lovers

    McLeans Magazine(Brian D. Johnson)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    3An Education

    4 The Road

    5 Bright Star

    6A Serious Man

    7 Inglourious Basterds

    8 The Hurt Locker

    9 The Cove

    10Avatar

    Metacritic.com(Marc Doyle)

    1 Goodbye Solo

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 Broken Embraces

    5 In the Loop

    6Avatar

    7 The Hangover

    8A Single Man

    9 Bright Star

    10Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    Metro News (Toronto)

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    (The Canadian Press)

    1 An Education

    2Avatar

    3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    4 Bright Star

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 I Killed My Mother

    7 Polytechnique

    8 The Trotsky

    9 Up

    10 Up in the Air

    Miami Herald(Rene Rodriguez)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4A Serious Man

    5 (500) Days of Summer

    6 Public Enemies

    7 In the Loop

    8 Up

    9 The Class

    10 Star Trek

    My PDF Scripts(Jeff Beck)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2 Watchmen

    3 Star Trek

    4 Up in the Air

    5An Education

    6 The Brothers Bloom

    7 (500) Days of Summer

    8 The Messenger

    9 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    10Away We Go

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    National Post [Toronto](Chris Knight)

    1 Avatar

    2 O Horten

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 The Informant!

    5 Cold Souls

    6 Star Trek

    7 The Cove8 The Damned United

    9 Up

    10 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    National Post [Toronto](Barry Hertz)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2A Serious Man

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    4 Tokyo Sonata

    5 Up6 In the Loop

    7 Humpday

    8Avatar

    9Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    10 Funny People (tie) Observe and Report

    National Post [Toronto](Vanessa Farquharson)

    1 Up

    2A Serious Man

    3 The Men Who Stare at Goats

    4 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    5 The Cove

    6 Up in the Air

    7 Inglourious Basterds

    8 Big River Man

    9 Where the Wild Things Are

    10 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

    National Post [Toronto](Ben Kaplan)

    1 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    2 Up in the Air

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4A Serious Man

    5 Funny People

    6 The Informant!

    7 Brno

    8 Tyson

    9 Zombieland

    10Away We Go

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    National Post [Toronto](Mark Medley)

    1 Up

    2 Inglourious Basterds

    3Avatar

    4 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 District 9

    7Adventureland8 The Cove

    9A Prophet

    10 Whip It (tie) Star Trek

    National Post [Toronto](Craig Courtice)

    1 Up

    2 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 Tulpan

    5 (500) Days of Summer

    6 Gomorrah

    7 Drag Me to Hell

    8 The Informant!

    9 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    10 Funny People

    NPR(Robert Mondello)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Summer Hours

    3 The Messenger

    4 Seraphine

    5A Single Man

    6 Up

    7 In the Loop

    8 Up in the Air

    9 The Cove

    10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    New Orleans Times-Picayune(Mike Scott)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up in the Air

    3 Up4 District 9

    5 Where the Wild Things Are

    6 Moon

    7 The Princess and the Frog

    8 Star Trek

    9 Inglourious Basterds

    10 The Road

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    New York Daily News(Elizabeth Weitzman)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Inglourious Basterds

    3 In the Loop

    4 Up in the Air

    5 Moon

    6 Sita Sings the Blues

    7 (500) Days of Summer8 Humpday

    9 Racing Dreams

    10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    New York Daily News(Joe Neumaier)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Where the Wild Things Are

    4 Crazy Heart

    5A Serious Man

    6 Star Trek

    7 Inglourious Basterds

    8 Duplicity

    9An Education

    10 District 9

    New York Magazine(David Edelstein)

    1 Summer Hours

    2 Everlasting Moments

    3 Brothers

    4 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    5 Tyson

    6A Serious Man

    7 Coraline

    8 In the Loop

    9 Food, Inc.

    10 The Hurt Locker

    11 Of Time and the City

    12 Where the Wild Things Are

    13Avatar

    New York Post(Lou Lumenick)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 Up

    3A Serious Man

    4 Inglourious Basterds

    5Avatar

    6 Invictus

    7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    8 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    9 In the Loop

    10 Ponyo

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    New York Post(V.A. Musetto)

    1 Antichrist

    2 Tony Manero

    3 Lornas Silence

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    6 The White Ribbon

    7 You, the Living8 Lake Tahoe

    9 Home

    10 Thirst

    New York Post(Kyle Smith)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2 Up

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    4 Watchmen

    5 Funny People6 Up in the Air

    7An Education

    8 In the Loop

    9 Of Time and the City

    10 Shall We Kiss?

    The New York Times(Stephen Holden)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The White Ribbon

    3 Still Walking4 The Messenger

    5 35 Shots of Rum

    6 The Hurt Locker

    7 The Headless Woman

    8An Education

    9 Summer Hours

    10 Disgrace

    The New York Times(A.O. Scott)

    1 Where the Wild Things Are

    2 The Hurt Locker In the Loop

    3 Summer Hours Of Time and the City

    4 Up in the Air Funny People

    5 Bright Star Medicine for Melancholy

    6 Precious Coraline

    7Avatar District 9

    8A Serious Man Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    9 Goodbye, Solo Sugar

    10 Gomorrah The Baader Meinhof Complex

    The New York Times(Manohla Dargis)

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    1 Gomorrah

    2 Tulpan

    3 Summer Hours

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 The Beaches of Agnes

    6 Public Enemies

    7 Beeswax

    8 Ponyo

    9 The Informant!10 Where the Wild Things Are

    11 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    12 The Sun

    13Avatar

    The New Yorker(Anthony Lane)

    1 Star Trek

    2 Up

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    4 Coraline

    5 Up in the Air

    6 Gomorrah

    7Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    8 The White Ribbon

    9

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    The New Yorker(David Denby)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 The White Ribbon

    3 The Messenger

    4 Funny People

    5Adventureland

    6 Up

    7 The Last Station

    8 Me and Orson Welles

    9 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    10 Up in the Air

    Newsweek(David Ansen)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Summer Hours

    3 Up in the Air

    4 In the Loop

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    6 Up

    7 Sraphine

    8 Rudo y Cursi

    9Avatar

    10An Education

    11 Tulpan

    12 Sin Nombre

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    Now Magazine(Norman Wilner)

    1 A Serious Man

    2 Hunger

    3 Summer Hours

    4 Wendy and Lucy

    5 Up

    6 Tokyo Sonata

    7 Where the Wild Things Are8 The Class

    9 The Cove

    10 Polytechnique

    Now Magazine(Susan G. Cole)

    1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    2 The Necessities of Life

    3 Departures

    4 My Sisters Keeper

    5 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

    6 One Week7Away we Go

    8 Tibet in Song

    9 The Boys are Back

    10 Julie & Julia

    The Onion AV Club(Noel Murray)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2A Serious Man

    3 Public Enemies

    4 Up5 Still Walking

    6 Julia

    7 Duplicity

    8 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    9 Funny People

    10 Passing Strange

    The Onion AV Club(Keith Phipps)

    1 A Serious Man

    2 In the Loop

    3 Where the Wild Things Are4 Gomorrah

    5 Broken Embraces

    6Antichrist

    7 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    8 Summer Hours

    9 The White Ribbon

    10 The Hurt Locker

    The Onion AV Club(Nathan Rabin)

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    1 Big Fan

    2A Serious Man

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 In the Loop

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 Humpday

    7 Collapse

    8 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    9 Passing Strange10An Education

    The Onion AV Club(Tasha Robinson)

    1 Where the Wild Things Are

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 District 9

    4 Ponyo

    5 The Informant!

    6 The Brothers Bloom

    7 Julia

    8 Coraline

    9 Big Fan

    10 Moon

    The Onion AV Club(Scott Tobias)

    1 35 Shots of Rum

    2 Duplicity

    3 Humpday

    4 Collapse

    5 Julia

    6Afterschool7 Revanche

    8 The House of the Devil

    9 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    10 The Hurt Locker

    Philadelphia Inquirer(Steven Rea)

    1 Avatar

    2 Bright Star

    3 An Education

    4 Fantastic Mr. Fox5 Goodbye Solo

    6 The Hurt Locker

    7 A Serious Man

    8 Sugar

    9 35 Shots of Rum

    10 Up in the Air

    Philadelphia Inquirer(Carrie Rickey)

    1 Avatar

    2 The Beaches of Agns

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    3 Bright Star

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 Il Divo

    6 I Love You, Man

    7 Julie & Julia

    8 Ponyo

    9 Up

    10 Up in the Air

    Portland Oregonian(Shawn Levy)

    1 An Education

    2 The Beaches of Agns

    3Avatar (tie) Star Trek

    4A Serious Man

    5 The Damned United

    6 Broken Embraces

    7 Revanche

    8 Coraline (tie) Fantastic Mr. Fox

    9 The Lovely Bones

    10 Up in the Air

    Portland Oregonian(Marc Mohan)

    1 Hunger

    2A Serious Man

    3 Summer Hours

    4 Inglourious Basterds

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    6 Goodbye Solo

    7 Star Trek

    8 The Cove9 Somers Town

    10Avatar

    Portland Oregonian(Mike Russell)

    1 In the Loop

    2A Serious Man

    3 Star Trek

    4 Whip It

    5 Drag Me to Hell

    6 Moon7 District 9

    8 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    9 Observe and Report

    10 The Brothers Bloom

    Premiere(Critics Staff)

    1 Avatar

    2 Inglourious Basterds

    3 District 9

    4 The Hurt Locker

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    5 Star Trek

    6 The Hangover

    7 (500) Days of Summer

    8 Up

    9 Up in the Air

    10 Where the Wild Things Are

    ReelViews

    (James Berardinelli)

    1 Avatar

    2 Inglourious Basterds

    3 Up in the Air

    4Adventureland

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 (500) Days of Summer

    7 District 9

    8 Precious

    9An Education

    10A Serious Man

    Rolling Stone(Peter Travers)

    1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    2 Up in the Air

    3 The Hurt Locker

    4 An Education

    5 Up

    6 Where the Wild Things Are

    7 A Serious Man

    8 District 9

    9 (500) Days of Summer

    10 The Messenger

    Salon(Andrew O'Hehir)

    1 Hunger

    2 Bronson

    3 Il Divo

    4A Serious Man

    5 The White Ribbon

    6 The Limits of Control

    7 Serbis

    8 35 Shots or Rum

    9 Gomorrah

    10 The Headless Woman

    Salon(Stephanie Zacharek)

    1 Summer Hours

    2 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    3Antichrist

    4 The September Issue

    5 Bright Star

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    6 Coraline

    7 The International

    8 Lake Tahoe

    9 Broken Embraces

    10 Star Trek

    San Francisco Chronicle(Peter Hartlaub)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up in the Air

    3 District 9

    4 Inglourious Basterds

    5 Coraline

    6 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    7Avatar

    8 The Cove

    9 The Damned United

    10Adventureland

    San Francisco Chronicle

    (Mick LaSalle)

    1 Inglourious Basterds

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 Up in the Air

    4 Two Lovers

    5 Revanche

    6 Funny People

    7 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    8 Cheri

    9 Summer Hours

    10 Food, Inc.

    Slate(Dana Stevens)

    1 Adventureland

    2 The Beaches of Agnes

    3 Crazy Heart

    4 Drag Me to Hell

    5 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    6 The Hurt Locker

    7 In the Loop

    8 Lornas Silence

    9 The Maid

    10 Ponyo

    St. Louis Post Dispatch(Joe Williams)

    1 (500) Days of Summer

    2Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    3An Education

    4 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6 The Informant!

    7 Inglourious Basterds

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    8 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    9 Up

    10 Up in the Air

    Time Magazine(Richard Corliss)

    1 The Princess and the Frog

    2 Up

    3 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    4 The Hurt Locker

    5 Up in the Air

    6 The White Ribbon

    7A Single Man

    8 Of Time and the City

    9 District 9

    10 Thirst

    Time-Out New York(David Fears)

    1 35 Shots of Rum

    2 Summer Hours

    3 The Hurt Locker

    4 Sugar

    5 The Headless Woman

    6A Serious Man

    7 Hunger

    8 Still Walking

    9 Treeless Mountain

    10 Bronson

    Time-Out New York(Joshua Rothkopf)

    1 A Serious Man

    2 Still Walking

    3 Two Lovers

    4 Star Trek

    5 The Hurt Locker

    6Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    7 Summer Hours

    8 The House of the Devil

    9 Somers Town

    10 Funny People

    Time-Out New York(Keith Uhlich)

    1 The Limits of Control

    2 Night and Days

    3 California Dreamin

    4 Two Lovers

    5 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

    6 Lornas Silence

    7 Public Enemies

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    8A Christmas Carol

    9 The Box

    10 Inglourious Basterds

    The Toronto Star(Peter Howelll)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up in the Air

    3 The White Ribbon4 The Cove

    5An Education

    6 The Hangover

    7 Coraline

    8 Inglourious Basterds

    9 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    10A Serious Man

    The Toronto Sun(Jim Slotek)

    1 Up in the Air

    2 The Hurt Locker

    3 The Road

    4 Star Trek

    5 Up

    6Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    7 The Cove

    8 In the Loop

    9 The Hangover

    10Avatar

    USA Today(Anthony Breznican)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up

    3 Up in the Air

    4 Sin Nombre

    5 Sugar

    6 (500) Days of Summer

    7 District 9

    8 Inglourious Basterds

    9A Serious Man

    10 Summer Hours

    Village Voice

    (J. Hoberman)1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Hunger

    3 Police, Adjective

    4 Im Gonna Explode

    5 Coraline

    6 The Sun

    7 The Beaches of Agns

    8 The Headless Woman

    9 Inglourious Basterds

    10 Red Cliff

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    11 The Girllfriend Experience

    Village Voice(Poll Results by Various)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Summer Hours

    3A Serious Man

    4 Inglourious Basterds

    5 35 Shots of Rum

    6 The Headless Woman

    7 Police, Adjective

    8 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    9 Two Lovers

    10 Up

    Wall Street Journal(Joe Morgenstern)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 An Education

    3 Avatar

    4 Crazy Heart5 District 9

    6 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    7 Sin Nombre

    8 Summer Hours

    9 Up in the Air

    10 Where the Wild Things Are

    Washington Post(Ann Hornaday)

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up in the Air3 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    4 Sugar

    5 The Baader Meinhof Complex

    6Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    7 Star Trek

    8 District 9

    9 Where the Wild Things Are

    10 Humpday

    Metacritic.com(Users Consensus)

    12

    3

    4

    5

    6

    7

    8

    9

    10

    11

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    Summary of 2009 Critics Top Ten Lists

    12

    24 City

    35 Shots of Rum

    (500) Days of Summer

    Act of God

    Adam

    Adventureland

    Afghan Star

    Afterschool

    Air Doll

    Anvil! The Story of Anvil

    Antichrist

    Avatar

    Away We Go

    The Baader-Meinhof Complex

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    The Beaches of Agnes

    Beeswax

    Big Fan

    Big River Man

    The Box

    The Boys are Back

    Bright Star

    Broken Embraces

    Bronson

    Brothers

    The Brothers Bloom

    Brno

    California Dreamin

    Cheri

    Children of Sundance

    A Christmas Carol

    The Class

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

    Cold Souls

    Collapse

    Coraline

    The Cove

    Crazy Heart

    The Damned United

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    La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

    Departures

    Disgrace

    District 9

    Il Divo

    Drag Me to Hell

    Duplicity

    An Education

    Everlasting Moments

    The Exiles

    Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Food, Inc.

    Funny People

    The Girlfriend Experience

    Gomorrah

    Goodbye Solo

    The Hangover

    Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

    The Headless Woman

    Home

    House of the Devil

    Humpday

    Hunger

    The Hurt Locker

    I Killed My Mother

    I Love You, Man

    Im Gonna Explode

    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

    In the Loop

    The Informant!

    Inglourious Basterds

    The International

    InvictusIts not me, I swear!

    Julia

    Julie & Julia

    Knowing

    Lake Tahoe

    The Last Station

    Lemon Tree

    Let the Right One In

    The Limits of Control

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    Lornas Silence

    The Lovely Bones

    The Maid

    Me and Orson Welles

    Medicine for Melancholy

    The Men Who Stare at Goats

    The Messenger

    Moon

    My One and Only

    My Sisters Keeper

    My son, my son, what have ye done?

    The Necessities of Life

    Night and Days

    O Horten

    Observe and Report

    Of Time and the City

    One Week

    Passing Strange

    A Perfect Getaway

    Police, Adjective

    Polytechnique

    Ponyo

    Precious: Based on the Novel Push

    The Princess and the Frog

    The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

    A Prophet

    Public Enemies

    Racing Dreams

    Red Cliff

    Revanche

    The Road

    Rudo y Cursi

    The September Issue

    Sraphine

    Serbis

    A Serious Man

    Shall We Kiss?

    Sherlock Holmes

    Silent Light

    Sin Nombre

    A Single Man

    Sita Sings the Blues

    Skin

    Slumdog Millionaire

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    The Soloist

    Somers Town

    The Square

    Star Trek

    Still Walking

    Stranded

    Sugar

    Summer Hours

    The Sun

    Sunshine Cleaning

    Thirst

    Tibet in Song

    Tokyo Sonata

    Tony Manero

    Treeless Mountain

    The Trotsky

    Trucker

    Two Lovers

    Tulpan

    Tyson

    Unmistaken Child

    Up

    Up in the Air

    Valentino: The Last Emperor

    Waltz with Bashir

    WatchmenWendy and Lucy

    Where the Wild Things Are

    Whip It

    The White Ribbon

    Worlds Greatest Dad

    The Wrestler

    You, the Living

    Zombieland

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    Summary of 2009 Critics Top 10 Lists

    1 The Hurt Locker

    2 Up in the Air

    3 Inglourious Basterds

    4 Up

    5A Serious Man

    6 Fantastic Mr. Fox

    7Avatar

    8 Summer Hours

    9 District 9

    10 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

    11 Where the Wild Things Are

    12 In the Loop

    13An Education

    14 The White Ribbon

    15 Star Trek

    16 Bright Star

    17 35 Shots of Rum

    18 Hunger

    19 (500) Days of Summer

    20 Coraline

    21 The Cove

    22 The Beaches of Agns

    23 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans