This is an exact copy/paste of Metacritic's old aggregate year end list. Since being under new management, they have taken down these lists and discontinued the process. This is here purely for archival reasons
A roundup of film critic top ten lists
Da bombWell, the critics are consistent. The Hurt Locker was the best-reviewed film of the year, and it is also the movie that turned up most often on film critics' year-end Best of 2009 lists. Out of the 56 such lists we tracked, however, it was Up in the Air that landed in the #1 position most often.
Below, we list the movies that appeared most frequently on the critics' year-end lists. Our summary list is not weighted or scored in any way; films are simply ranked by the frequency with which they appear in critic Top 10 lists, in any position on those lists. (The number of times they appear in the #1 position is indicated as a convenience.) A full list of publications used -- with links to many of the individual lists -- appears beneath the table.
Also note that if a critic listed 11, 12, or even more films instead of the traditional 10, the extras are included in the tally. (We figure that the point of this exercise is to clue you into which films the critics felt worthy of highlighting, so it is better to be inclusive than exclusive.)
You may also view a listing of each publication's Top 10 picks in Metacritic's Film section.
| Movie | # 1's | Top Ten Lists | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hurt Locker | 8 | 43 | 94 |
| 2 | Up in the Air | 10 | 33 | 83 |
| 3 | A Serious Man | 4 | 23 | 79 |
| 3 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | 0 | 23 | 83 |
| 3 | Up | 1 | 23 | 88 |
| 6 | Inglourious Basterds | 3 | 21 | 69 |
| 7 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 1 | 19 | 79 |
| 8 | Avatar | 1 | 17 | 84 |
| 9 | District 9 | 0 | 16 | 81 |
| 9 | In the Loop | 1 | 16 | 83 |
| 9 | Summer Hours | 0 | 16 | 84 |
| 12 | An Education | 1 | 15 | 85 |
| 13 | Where the Wild Things Are | 3 | 14 | 71 |
| 14 | Star Trek | 0 | 12 | 83 |
| 15 | The White Ribbon | 3 | 11 | 80 |
| 16 | Coraline | 0 | 10 | 80 |
| 17 | Bright Star | 1 | 9 | 81 |
| 18 | (500) Days of Summer | 1 | 7 | 76 |
| 18 | A Single Man | 1 | 7 | 75 |
| 18 | Moon | 0 | 7 | 67 |
| 18 | The Beaches of Agnes | 0 | 7 | 86 |
| 18 | The Cove | 0 | 7 | 84 |
| 23 | 35 Shots of Rum | 3 | 6 | 91 |
| 23 | Adventureland | 0 | 6 | 76 |
| 23 | Everlasting Moments | 0 | 6 | 80 |
| 23 | Funny People | 0 | 6 | 60 |
| 23 | Of Time and the City | 0 | 6 | 81 |
| 28 | Antichrist | 0 | 5 | 49 |
| 28 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 0 | 5 | 82 |
| 28 | Big Fan | 1 | 5 | 70 |
| 28 | Gomorrah | 1 | 5 | 87 |
| 28 | Ponyo | 0 | 5 | 86 |
| 28 | Public Enemies | 0 | 5 | 70 |
| 28 | Sugar | 0 | 5 | 82 |
| 28 | The Headless Woman | 0 | 5 | 81 |
| 28 | The Messenger | 0 | 5 | 76 |
| Other films receiving at least one #1 ranking: | ||||
| Hunger | 2 | 4 | 82 | |
| The Princess and The Frog | 1 | 3 | 73 | |
| The Limits of Control | 1 | 2 | 41 | |
The 56 individual Best of 2009 lists used to compile the above data were from (with their #1 picks indicated):
- Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten) - Where the Wild Things Are
- Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones) - A Serious Man
- Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov) - A Single Man
- Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow) - The Exiles
- Boston Globe (Ty Burr) - A Serious Man
- Boston Globe (Wesley Morris) - 35 Shots of Rum
- Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) [unranked list]
- Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips) - Up
- Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer) [unranked list]
- Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman) - Up in the Air
- Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum) - The Hurt Locker
- The Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt) - The White Ribbon
- The Hollywood Reporter (Sheri Linden) - The White Ribbon
- The Hollywood Reporter (Ray Bennett) - Up in the Air
- The Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen) - Up in the Air
- The Hollywood Reporter (Stephen Farber) - Up in the AIr
- The Hollywood Reporter (Frank Scheck) - Up in the Air
- LA Weekly (Scott Foundas) - The White Ribbon
- Los Angeles Times (Betsy Sharkey) - Up in the Air
- Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan) - Bright Star
- Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez) - Up in the Air
- New Orleans Times-Picayune (Mike Scott) - The Hurt Locker
- New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier) - Up in the Air
- New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman) - The Hurt Locker
- New York Magazine (David Edelstein) - Summer Hours
- New York Post (Lou Lumenick) - Up in the Air
- New York Post (Kyle Smith) - Inglourious Basterds
- The New York Times (Manohla Dargis) [unranked list]
- The New York Times (Stephen Holden) - Up in the Air
- The New York Times (A.O. Scott) - Where the Wild Things Are
- The New Yorker (David Denby) [unranked list]
- The New Yorker (Anthony Lane) [unranked list]
- Newsweek (David Ansen) - The Hurt Locker
- The Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray) - Inglourious Basterds
- The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps) - A Serious Man
- The Onion A.V. Club (Nathan Rabin) - Big Fan
- The Onion A.V. Club (Tasha Robinson) - Where the Wild Things Are
- The Onion A.V. Club (Scott Tobias) - 35 Shots of Rum
- The Oregonian (Shawn Levy) - An Education
- The Oregonian (Mike Russell) - In the Loop
- The Oregonian (Marc Mohan) - Hunger
- ReelViews (James Berardinelli) - Avatar
- Rolling Stone (Peter Travers) - Precious
- Salon (Stephanie Zacharek) - Summer Hours
- Salon (Andrew O'Hehir) - Hunger
- San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle) - Inglourious Basterds
- San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Hartlaub) - The Hurt Locker
- Slate (Dana Stevens) [unranked list]
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Joe Williams) - (500) Days of Summer
- Time Magazine (Richard Corliss) - The Princess and The Frog
- Time Out New York (David Fear) - 35 Shots of Rum
- Time Out New York (Joshua Rothkopf) - A Serious Man
- Time Out New York (Keith Uhlich) - The Limits of Control
- Village Voice (J. Hoberman) - The Hurt Locker
- Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern) - The Hurt Locker
- Washington Post (Ann Hornaday) - The Hurt Locker
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