Roger Ebert's "Top Twenty Films of 2009"
Roger Ebert’s Top Mainstream and Independent Films of 2009, in alphabetical order. As Ebert writes:
"Since Moses brought the tablets down from the mountain, lists have come in tens, not that we couldn’t have done with several more commandments. Who says a year has Ten Best Films, anyway? Nobody but readers, editors, and most other movie critics. There was hell to pay last year when I published my list of Twenty Best. You’d have thought I belched at a funeral. So this year I have devoutly limited myself to exactly ten films.
On each of two lists.
The lists are divided into Mainstream Films and Independent Films. This neatly sidesteps two frequent complaints: (1) "You name all those little films most people have never heard of," and (2) "You pick all blockbusters and ignore the indie pictures." Which is is my official Top Ten? They both are equal, and every film here is entitled to name itself "One of the Year’s 10 Best!""
He also adds:
"Now you are thinking, hey, what about "Avatar?" Faithful readers know of my annual Special Jury Prize. This year it goes to James Cameron’s ground-breaking epic. No, that doesn’t mean it’s the best film of the year. It means it won the Special Jury Prize."
His lists for the top documentaries, foreign films, and animated films of 2009 are coming soon.
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