Final: A Rundown of 2009
Lee Daniels’s “Precious” (A)
Jason Reitman’s “Up in the Air” (A)
Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are” (A)
Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9″ (A)
Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” (A)
James Cameron’s “Avatar” (A)
J.J. Abrams’s “Star Trek” (A)
Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (A)
Marc Webb’s “(500) Days of Summer” (A)
Lone Scherfig’s “An Education” (A)
Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” (A)
Oren Peli’s “Paranormal Activity” (A)
Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” (A)
Pete Docter’s “Up” (A)
Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” (A)
David Yates’ “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (A)
Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia” (A)
Henry Selick’s “Coraline” (A)
Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (A)
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s “Gamer” (A)
Alex Proyas’ “Knowing” (A)
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (A)
Nick Cassavetes’ “My Sister’s Keeper” (A)
Ruben Fleischer’s “Zombieland” (A)
Joe Wright’s “The Soloist” (A-)
Roland Emmerich’s “2012″ (A-)
Sam Raimi’s “Drag Me to Hell” (A-)
Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” (A-)
Robert Zemeckis’ “A Christmas Carol” (A-)
Rian Johnson’s “The Brothers Bloom” (A-)
Nancy Meyers’s “It’s Complicated” (A-)
Pierre Morel’s “Taken” (A-)
Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon’s “Monsters vs. Aliens” (A-)
Tony Scott’s “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ (A-)
Hoyt Yeatman Jr.’s “G-Force” (A-)
Todd Graff’s “Bandslam” (B+)
Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” (B+)
Chris Weitz’s “New Moon” (B+)
Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson’s “The Invention of Lying” (B+)
Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” (B+)
Tom Tykwer’s “The International” (B+)
Anne Fletcher’s “The Proposal” (B+)
Stewart Hendler’s “Sorority Row” (B+)
Brandon Camp’s “Love Happens” (B)
Andy Fickman’s “Race to Witch Mountain” (B)
David Bowers’s “Astro Boy” (B)
Stephen Sommers’s “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” (B)
Paul Weitz’s “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” (B)
Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus” (B-)
Justin Lin’s “Fast & Furious” (B-)
Carlos Saldanha’s “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” (B-)
Robert Schwentke’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife” (C+)
Thor Freudenthal’s “Hotel for Dogs” (C+)
Paul McGuigan’s “Push” (C+)
Dominic Sena’s “Whiteout” (C+)
Peter Chelsom’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie” (C)
F. Gary Gray’s “Law Abiding Citizen” (C)
Mira Nair’s “Amelia” (C)
Olatunde Osansunmi’s “The Fourth Kind” (C-)
John Lee Hancock’s “The Blind Side” (C-)
Shane Acker’s “9″ (C-)
Betty Thomas’ “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” (D+)
McG’s “Terminator Salvation” (D+)
Brad Silberling’s “Land of the Lost” (F)
Walt Becker’s “Old Dogs” (F)
