His personal favorite: Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man. In Contention's Kristopher Tapley looks back on 2009.
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More films of the 00s from Film Salon: Robert Siegel ( Big Fan) on Dover Koshashvili's Late Marriage, Karina Longworth on Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, "literally a moving painting," and Matt Zoller Seitz's latest entry in his series on the directors of the decade: Robert Zemeckis and Wes Anderson.ĭusty Somers lists his top 50 of the 00s in the Oklahoma Daily. The criticism-compilation site also breaks the top-reviewed films down by genre." " Metacritic posted its Best-Reviewed Movies of the Decade list," notes the Hollywood Reporter's Jay A Fernandez. The Telegraph's Tim Robey picks his best 100 films of the decade. Also, the paper carries on running additions to its " 2009: the year in lists" collection, including, of course, a bundle of film-related lists: "Seven ridiculous film plots, five unlikely weapons and the five scariest children in film." For John Patterson, 2009 was "the year Hollywood hit New Orleans in search of visual cliches."
The Guardian will be rolling out its film team's choices for the top 10 films of the decade will over the next two weeks.
Stephen Holden asks: "Is it coincidence that Up in the Air and The Messenger - the two films that best captured a sense of what it was really like to live in the United States the year the bottom almost fell out - focus on men whose job it is to deliver very bad news to strangers?" Scott, by the way - and this would be an online listening tip - discusses the best films of the decade on Talk of the Nation. And then there are nine more that will be worth revisiting in the years to come." That #1 above all others is Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are. One stands alone, while the rest are presented in loose thematic pairs. "But since this year ends in a nine and saw the release of two movies called Nine, I've taken the liberty of making a 10-best list of 19 films.
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"Ten is the hardest number for a movie critic," writes AO Scott. Manohla Dargis begins her assessment of 2009 with a series of numbers that seem to add up to a dire situation indeed: "Movies have always been segmented among different audiences, but the disparity between the work that earns most of the critical love at release - and awards - time and much of what fills the multiplex on a weekly basis seems greater than ever." Gradually, though, the piece turns: "Despite the shake-ups and bad economic times there are now more choices for dedicated movie lovers than at any time in history, though only if you live in a major film market like New York, have access to a cable outfit like the Independent Film Channel, which shows some of the best movies around, or own a region-free DVD player on which you can play international discs." She wraps with "a baker's dozen of my favorite films of the year, in order of their domestic release." But as you look over " The Year in the Arts," this weekend's special section, you find that Smith might was well be writing about the whole of the art world, encompassing theater, music, architecture, cinema, of course, and all the rest. And guess what? It persisted, albeit in a slightly altered, chastened form." That's Roberta Smith, actually, one of two chief art critics at the New York Times and not one of the paper's three film critics. "This was the year that the art world repeatedly checked its pulse to see if it was still alive.
Previous roundups of year-end and decade-end lists and awards: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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