Top Favorite Films of 2009

Directed by Zack Snyder

Starring Malin Ackerman, Matthew Goode, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Hurley, Patrick Wilson, Matt Frewer, Stephen McHattie, Laura Mannell, Rob LaBelle, Gary Chalk, Garry Huston, James M. Connor, Robert Wisden, Jerry Wasserman, Kevin McNulty, Don Thompson, Stephanie Belding, Michael Kopsa, Walter Addison, Frank Novak, Zack Snyder, Nhi Ho, David MacKay, Jay Brazeau, Brett Stimely, Mike Carpenter, Martha Regis, Louis Chirillo, Sal Sortino, Eli Snyder, John Kobylka, Frank Cassini, Darryl Shuttleworth, J.R. Killigrow, Jaryd Heidrick, Hailey Guiel, Sonya Salomma, Carrie Genzel, Greg Travis, Greg Armstrong Morris, Dan Payne, Niall Matter, Apollonia Vanova, Glenn Ennis, Darryl Scheelar, Clint Carleton, Leah Gibson, Danny Woodburn, Trevor Copolla, and Douglas Chapman

Directed by James Cameron

Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Michelle Rodriquez, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi, Laz Alanso, Dileep Rao, Matt Gerald, Sean Patrick Murphy, Scott Lawrence, Kevin Dorman, Kelson Henderson, Jacob Tomauri, Woody Schultz, Julene Renee Preciado, Peter Menasch, Luke Hawker, Debra Wilson, Nathan Meister, James Gaylyn, Lasco Atkins, Kai Pantano, T.J. Storm, and Terry Notary

Directed by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Featuring voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Delroy Lindo, Bob Peterson, Jordan Nagai, Jerome Ranft, John Ratzenberger, David Kaye, Elie Docter, Jeremy Leary, Donald Fulilove, Mickie McGowan, Danny Mann, Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, Jess Harnell, Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews, Bob Bergen, Paul Eiding, Teresa Ganzel, Sherry Lynn, Tony Fucile, Laraine Newman, Teddy Newman, Jeff Pidgeon, and Jan Robson

Directed by Marc Webb

Stasrring Zoey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon Leavitt, Geoffrey Arend, Yvette Nicole Brown, Chloe Grace Moritz, Matthew Gray Gruber, Clark Gregg, Patricia Blecher, Rachel Boston, Maile Flanagan, Minka Kelly, Ian Reed Kessler, and featuring voice of Richard McGonagale

Directed by Robert D. Siegel

Starring Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Jonathan Hamm, Matt Servitto, Michael Rappaport, Chyna, Since Anderson, Polly Humphrys, Miranda Rhyne, and Nick Gallo

Directed by Scott Sanders

Starring Michael Jai White, Phyliss Applegate, Cheryl Carter, Obba Babatunde, Kevin Chapman, Arsenio Hall, Richard Edson, John Kerry, Tommy Davidson, Irwin Keyes, Brian McKnight, Nicole Ari Parker, Salli Richardson, John Salley, Tucker Smallwood, Baron Vaughan, Mykelti Williamson, Pete Antico, Cedric Yarbrough, and Kym Whitley

Directed by Pierre Morel

Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Xander Berkeley, Holly Vallance, Katie Cassidy, Famke Janssen, Olivier Rabourdin, Gerard Watkins, Marc Amyot, Goran Kostic, Arben Bajraktaraj, and Rasha Bukvic

Directed by Michael Moore

Starring Michael Moore, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, Wallace Shawn, Thora Birch, Chesley Sullenberger, and Elizabeth Warren

 

Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller

Featuring voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, Neil Patrick Harris, Bob Bergen, Mr. T, James Caan, Bruce Campbell, Andy Samberg, Benjamin Bratt, Bobb' e J. Thompson, Neil Flynn, Al Roker, Jim Cygan, Will Forte, Lauren Graham, Jess Harnell, Mickie McGowan, Angela Shelton, Peter Sigurusa, Max Neuwirth, Liz Cackowski, Shaun Baumel, Paul Eiding, Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Sherry Lynn, Lori Allen, Mona Marshall, Danny Mann, Jeremy Shada, Laraine Newman, Ariel Winter, and Jan Rabson

Directed by Henry Selick

Featuring voices of Dakota Fanning, John Hodgman, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Keith David, Robert Bailey Jr., Ian McShane, Emerson Tenney, Jerome Ranft, Harry Selick, George Selick, and Dawn French

Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig

Starring Ethan Hawke, Jay Laga'aia, Sam Neill, Damien Garvey, Tiffany Lamb,Paul Sonkkila, Vince Colosimo, Claudia Karavan, Mungo McKay, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman, Emma Randall, Willem Dafoe, and Christopher Kirby

Directed by Tommy Wirkola

Starring Vegal Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Evy Kasseth Rosten, Helps Beck Laursen, Jenny Skavlan, Ana Dahl Torp, Bjorn Sundquist, Orjan Gamst, and Tommy Wirkola

Directed by Neill Blomkamp

Starring Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Bolitt, Sylaine Strike, Greg Melville-Smith, Elizabeth Mkandawie, John Sumner, William Allen Young, Neill Blomkamp, Nick Blake, Jed Brophy, Vanessa Haywood, and Nick Boraine

Directed by Sam Raimi

Starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adrianna Barzaza, Chelcie Ross, Reggie Lee, Sam Raimi, Molly Cheek, Ted Raimi, Scott Speigel, Bridget Hoffman, Octavia Spenser, Bojana Novakovic, Kevin Foster, Alexis Cruz, Ruth Livier, Joanne Baron, Ali Dean, Alex Vedadov, Bonnie Aarons, Chloe Dykstra, Irene Roseen, Lorne Raimi, Henry Raimi, Emma Raimi, Christopher Young, and featuring voice of Art Kimbro

Directed by Kyle Newman

Starring Dan Fogel, Sam Huntington, Kristen Bell, Chris Marquette, Jay Baruchel, William Shatner, David Denham, Christopher McDonald, Issac Kappy, Seth Rogen, Stephen Pina, Danny Trejo, Allie Grant, Ethan Suplee, Billy Dee Williams, Carrie Fisher, Joe Lo Trugilo, Jaime King, Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Zak Knutson, Ray Park, Will Forte, Craig Robinson, Lou Taylor Pucci, and Danny McBride

Directed by Wes Anderson

Featuring voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Roman Coppola, Wallace Wolodarsky, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Eric Chase Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Jarvis Cocker, Wes Anderson, Karen Duffy, Helen McCrory, Garth Jennings, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, Allison Abbate, Adrien Brody, and Mario Batali

 

Directed by Niels Arden Oplev

Starring Noomi Repace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sven Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall, Bjorn Granath, Ewa Froling, Annika Halling, Tomas Kohler, Stefan Sauk, Jacob Ericksson, Gunnel Lindblom, Tehilla Blad, Nina Noren, and Julia Sporre

Directed by Daniel Alfredson

Starring Noomi Repace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson, Annika Hallin, Sofia Ledarp, Jacob Ericksson, Rueben Sallmander, Yasmine Garbi, Ralph Carlsson, Georgi Staykov, Sunil Munshi, Anders Ahlborn, Palolo Roberto, Magnus Krappner, Pelle Bollander, and Johan Kylen

Directed by Daniel Alfredson

Starring Noomi Repace, Michael Nyqvist, Lene Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Ericksson, Sofia Edarp, Andres Ahlborn, Micke Spreitz, Georgi Stsykov, Niklas Falk, Hans Alfredson, Jan Holmquist, Johan Kylen, Peter Andersson, Magnus Krapnner, Tomas Kohler, and Tehilla Blad

 

Directed by Stephen Sommers

Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Channing Tatnum, Christopher Eccleston, Joesph Gordon Levitt, Brendan Fraser, Leo Howard, Rachel Nichols, Kevin J. O'Connor, Karolina Kurkova, Byung-hun Lee, Marlon Wayans, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Dennis Quaid, Brendon Soo Hoo, Arnold Vosloo, Gerald Okamura, Said Taghmauori, and Jonathan Pryce

Directed by Todd Philips

Starring Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Zach Galifiankias, Mike Tyson, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Sasha Barrese, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrew Astor, Todd Phillips, Mike Epps, Rob Riggle, Matt Walsh, Jernard Banks, Sondra Currie, Joe Satriani, Dan Finnerty, Keith Lyle, Lucinda Jenney, Victor Yerrid, and Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson

Directed by David Yates

Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Timothy Spall, Rupert Grint, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Julie Walters, Bonnie Wright, Geraldine Somerville, Jim Broadbent, David Legeno, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Helen McCrory, Oliver Phelps, Warwick Davis, James Phelps, Evanna Lynch, Robert Knox, William Melling, Alfre Enoch, Jamie Waylett, Josh Herdman, David Bradley, Matthew Lewis, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Ralph Ineson, Gemma Jones, Frank Rolland,Katie Leung, Jason Issacs, and featuring voice of Imelda Staunton

Directed by John Hamburg

Starring Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Geddy Lee, Rashida Jones, Sarah Jones, J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Jaime Pressly, Jon Faverau, David Krumholtz, Lou Ferrigno, Melissa Rauch, Larry Wilmore, David Wein, Neil Peart, Raquel Bell, Matt Walsh, Vicki Lewis, Jay Chandrasekhar, Catherine Reitman, Aziz Ansari, Seth Morris, Andy Samberg, Thomas Lennon, Carla Gallo, Liz Crakowski, Nick Kroll, Rob Huebel, and Kym Whitney

Directed by Mike Thurmeier and Carlos Saldanha

Featuring voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Eunice Cho, Joey King, Clea Lewis, Allegra Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Josh Peck, Jane Lynch, Simon Pegg, Carlos Saldanha, Seann William Scott, Chris Wedge, Matt Adler, Kristen Wiig, Steve Altermann, June Christopher, and David McCharen

Directed by Terry Gilliam

Starring Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger, Ray Cooper, Andrew Garfield, Tom Waits, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Gwyndoline Christy, Johnny Harris, Verne Troyer, Paloma Faith, Mackenzie Grey, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, and Peter Stormare

Directed by Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth

Starring Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Christop Waltz, Brad Pitt, Mike Myers, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Omar Doom, B.J. Novak, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Denis Menochet, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Samm Levine, Paul Rust, Lea Seydoux, Rod Taylor, Tina Rodriguez, Lena Friedrich, Buddy Joe Hooker, Bo Svenson, Enzo G. Castellari, Greg Nicotero, Quentin Tarantino, and featuring voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel, and Helena Cardona

Directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson

Starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Dreama Walker, Edward Norton, Stephen Merchant, Bobby Moyniham, Jason Bateman, Louis C.K., Roz Ryan, Jonah Hill, Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan, Stephanie March, Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Reuben Santiago-Hudson, John Hodgman, Matthew Robinson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Donna Sorbello, Nathan Corddry, Martin Starr, and Christopher Guest

Directed by Clint Eastwood

Starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Scott Eastwood, Tony Kgoroge, Matt Stern, Julian Lewis Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Marguerite Wheatley, Patrick Lyster, Penny Downie, Danny Keogh, Robin Smith, David Dukas, Grant Swanby, Langley Kirkwood, Andre Jacobs, Mike Fellow, and Stelio Savante

Directed by Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman

Featuring voices of Seth Rogen, Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Colbert, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett, Kiefer Sutherland, Rainn Wilson, Paul Rudd, Julie White, Amy Poehler, Jeffrey Tamor, Ed Helms, Renee Zellwagger, John Krasinky, Rob Letterman, Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Mike Mitchell, Conrad Vernon, and Kent Osborne

Directed by Duncan Jones

Starring Sam Rockwall, Robin Chalk, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw, Adrianne Shaw, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, and featuring voice of Kevin Spacey

Directed by George Tillman, Jr.

Starring Jamal Woolard, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Derek Luke, Mark John Jefferies, Ricky Smith, Angela Bassett, David Costabile, Julia Pace Mitchell, Naturi Naughton, Aunjanue Ellis, Valence Thomas, Kevin Phillips, John Ventimiglia, Antonique Smith, and Anthony Mackie

Directed by J.J. Abrams

Starring Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Bruce Greenwood, Leonard Nimoy, Zoe Saldana, Eric Bana, Jolene Kay, Christopher Doohan, Sala Baker, Neville Page, Deep Roy, Jimmy Bennett, Jacob Kogsn, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Morrison, Winona Ryder, Greg Ellis, Paul McGillion, and featuring voices of Majell Barrett, Greg Grunberg, and Wil Wheaton

Directed by McG

Starring Christian Bale, Common, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace, Michael Ironside, Jane Alexander, Victor J. Ho, Greg Serano, Terry Crews, Michael Papajohn, Roland Kickinger, and featuring voice of Linda Hamilton

Directed by Spike Jonze

Starring Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Corr, Joshua Jay, Steve Mouzakis, Pepita Emmerichs, and featuring voices of James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Dano, Spike Jonze, Chris Copper, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Berry, Jr

Directed by Miguel Arteta

Starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Jean Smart, Erik Knudsen, Adhir Kalyan, Steve Buscemi, Fred Willard, Ari Graynor, Ray Liotta, Justin Long, Rooney Mara, Jade Fusco, Christa B. Allen, M. Emmett Walsh, Mary Kay Place, and Miguel Arteta

Directed by Ruben Fleischer

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Bill Murray, Woody Harrleson, Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Derek Graf, Jacob G. Atkins, Elle Alexander, Mike White, Justin Price, and featuring voice of Ashley Lambert

Directed by James McTeigue

Starring Rain, Naomi Harris, Paul Leonard, Kai Fung Reick, Sungwoong Yoon, Rick Yune, Joon Lee, Randall Duk Kim, Stephen Marcus, and Eleanor Weisgerber

Directed by Steven Soderburgh

Starring Matt Damon, Lucas McHugh Carroll, Rusty Schwimmer, Frank Welker, Candy Clark, Melanie Lanskey, Joel McHale, Eddie Jemison, Scott Bakula, Scott Adsit, Rick Overton, Thomas F. Wilson, Ann Dowd, Ann Cusack, Tom Smothers, Clancy Brown, Dick Smothers, Patton Oswalt, and Paul F. Thompkins

Directed by Peter Bilingsley

Starring Vince Vaughan, Jason Bateman, Faizon Love, Jon Faverau, Kristen Bell, Malin Akerman, Kristin Davis, Kali Hawk, Jean Reno, Tasha Smith, Peter Serafinowicz, Carlos Ponce, Temuera Morrison, Amy Hill, Ken Jeong, and John Michael Higgins

Directed by John Lee Hancock

Starring Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Tim McGraw, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Iron E. Singleton, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Kathy Bates, Catherine Dryer, Andy Stahl, Tom Nowicki, Sharon Conley, Rhoda Griffis, and Omar J. Dorsey

Directed by Drew Berrymore

Starring Ellen Page, Drew Berrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden, Sarah Habel, Shannon Eagen, Eulala Scheel, Daniel Stern, Carlo Alban, Landon Pigg, Kristen Wiig, Eve, Zoe Bell, Andrew Wilson, Juliette Lewis, and Ari Graynor

Directed by Peter Stebbings

Starring Woody Harrleson, Kat Dennings, Lyriq Bent, Elias Koteas, Dakots Goyo, Michael Kelly, Sandra Oh, Clark Johnson, Lisa Ray, Alan C. Peterson, Kristin Booth, Charlotte Sullivan, Tony Nappo, Ron White, Matt Gordon, Max Dreseen, Graham Abbey, Peter Stebbings, Tatiana Maslany, and featuring voice of Jim Ladd

Directed by Gasper Noe

Starring Paz de la Hurts, Emily Alyn Lind, Gasper Noe, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Masato Tanno, Ed Spear, Jesse Kuhn, Milton James, Sara Stockbridge, Olly Alexander, and Jessica DeMarco

Directed by Justin Lin

Starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Michelle Rodriquez, Laz Alonso, Gal Gadot, Jack Conley, Brandon T. Jackson, Shea Whigham, Liza Lapria, Greg Files, Sung Kahn, Tago Calderon, Neil Brown, Jr, Vilmer Calderon, Don Omar, and Ron Yuan

Directed by Judd Apatow

Starring Adam Sandler, Leslie Mann, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Eric Bana, Jason Schwartzman, Aubrey Plaza, Maude Apatow, RZA, Iris Apatow, Aziz Ansari, Torsten Vorgens, Rod Man, Allan Wasserman, Wayne Federman, James Taylor, Nicole Parker, Andy Dick, Charles Fleischer, George Coe, Carol Leifer, George Wallace, Norm MacDonald, Eminem, Dave Attlell, Sarah Silverman, Maggie Siff, Ray Romano, Jon Brion, Bo Burham, Carla Gallo, Justin Long, Tom Anderson, Kyle Kinane, Dan Harmon, and Orly Adams

 

Directed by Nora Ephron

Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Dan Aykroyd, Frances Sternhagen. Pamela Stewart, Chris Messina, Stanley Tucci, Linda Emond, Helen Carey, Mary Lynn Rajskub, George Bartenieff, Casey Wilson, Jane Lynch, Joan Juliet Buck, Crystal Noelle, Vanessa Ferlito, Jillian Bach, and featuring voice of Mary Kay Place

Directed by F. Gary Gray

Starring Jamie Foxx, Gerald Butler, Colm Meany, Gregory Itzin, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hill, Emerald Angel Young, Christian Stole, Annie Corley, Viola Davis, Richard Portnow, Roger Bart, Josh Stewart, Even Hart, and Michael Kelly

Directed by Jaume Collet Serea

Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Peter Skarsgaard, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett, Margo Martindale, Karl Roden, Rosemary Dunsmore, Aryana Engineer, Jamie Young, Brendan Young, Genelle Williams, and Leni Parker

Directed by Anne Fletcher

Starring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Niecy Nash, Mary Steenburgen, Crsig T. Nelson, Denis O'Hare, Malin Ackerman, Oscar Nunez, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Nouri, Michael Moseley, Gregg Edelman, Dale Place, and Anne Fletcher

Directed by Michael Mann

Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Collitard, Diane Krall, David Wenham, Christian Stolte, John Judd, Stephen Dorff, Jason Clarke, Michael Vieau, James Russo, John Kishline, Rory Cochrane, Casey Siesmaszko, Carey Mulligan, Channing Tatum, Branka Katic, Emille de Ravin, Ed Bruce, Giovanni Ribisi, Bill Camp, John Ortiz, Billy Crudup, Shawn Hatosy, Rebbeca Spence, Lili Taylor, and Leelee Sobieski