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2009 Screening Log

For the sake of year-end convenience, 2009 films seen in 2008 (except those seen at festivals) are stuck at the beginning of the list. Also for my convenience, a movie's year is determined either by original North American release date or, if the film is never released commercially, by the date of its North American premiere, to the best of my knowledge.


"^" after a film indicates a repeat viewing.

"*" after a film indicates a home viewing.

001. (8-Jan) Daybreakers (Spierig Brothers, 2010) B
002. (9-Jan) Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta, 2010) C
003. (9-Jan) Up (Pete Docter, 2009)^* Masterpiece
004. (27-Jan) One Girl's Confession (Hugo Haas, 1953) C
005. (27-Jan) Women's Prison (Lewis Seiler, 1955) C+
006. (28-Jan) The Book of Eli (Hughes Brothers, 2010) B-
007. (28-Jan) Red Light (Roy Del Ruth, 1949) D
008. (28-Jan) Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, 1948) C+
009. (29-Jan) Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell, 2010) B
010. (29-Jan) Extraordinary Measures (Tom Vaughan, 2010) C-
011. (30-Jan) Inside Job (Jean Yarbrough, 1946) B
012. (30-Jan) Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, 1950) C+
013. (31-Jan) Legion (Scott Stewart, 2010) B-
014. (31-Jan) Escape in the Fog (Oscar Boetticher, 1945) B+
015. (31-Jan) A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951) Masterpiece
016. (1-Feb) District 13: Ultimatum (Patrick Allessandrin, 2010) B-
017. (2-Feb) From Paris with Love (Pierre Morel, 2010) C
018. (3-Feb) Storm (Hans-Christian Schmic, 2010) C
019. (5-Feb) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)* B+ [3-D IMAX]
020. (6-Feb) Balibo (Roger Connelly, 2009) C-
021. (6-Feb) Candy (Neil Armfield, 2006) B+
022. (6-Feb) Crush (Jeffrey Gerritsen & John V. Soto, 2009) D+
023. (8-Feb) The Good Guy (Julio DePietro, 2010) B-
024. (9-Feb) The Wolfman (Joe Johnston, 2010) C+
025. (14-Feb) Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Chris Columbus, 2010) C-
026. (14-Feb) Dear John (Lasse Hallstrom, 2010) C
027. (19-Feb) Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) B+
028. (20-Feb) Northface (Philipp Stšlzl, 2010) C+
029. (22-Feb) Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009)* B
030. (25-Feb) Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold, 2009)* A
031. (27-Feb) Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 2009)* B
032. (2-Mar) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith, 2010) C
033. (5-Mar) Red Riding: 1980 (James Marsh, 2009)* A-
034. (6-Mar) The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010) B
035. (6-Mar) The Crazies (Breck Eisner, 2010) C+
036. (9-Mar) Green Zone (Paul Greengrass, 2010) C-
037. (11-Mar) Brooklyn's Finest (Antoine Fuqua, 2010) C+
038. (12-Mar) Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn, 2010) C
039. (12-Mar) Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (Eli Craig, 2010) B-
040. (13-Mar) Thunder Soul (Mark Landsman, 2010) C
041. (13-Mar) Last Train Home (Lixin Fan, 2010) B+
042. (13-Mar) Greenlit (Miranda Bailey, 2010) C
043. (13-Mar) How to Fold a Flag (Michael Tucker & Petra Epperlein, 2010) B+
044. (13-Mar) Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass, 2010) A-
045. (14-Mar) No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (Steve James, 2010) C
046. (14-Mar) Brotherhood (Will Canon, 2010) C+
047. (14-Mar) Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) B
048. (14-Mar) Saturday Night (James Franco, 2010) B
xxx. (14-Mar) Elektra Luxx (Sebastian Gutierrez, 2010) Did Not Finish
049. (14-Mar) Serbian Film (Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010) C
050. (15-Mar) Lovers of Hate (Bryan Poyser, 2010) C+
051. (15-Mar) Camp Victory, Afghanistan (Carol Dysinger, 2010) B-
052. (15-Mar) Centurion (Neil Marshall, 2010) C+
053. (16-Mar) The Freebie (Katie Aselton, 2010) B-
054. (16-Mar) Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010) B
055. (16-Mar) Lebanon, PA (Ben Hickernell, 2010) B-
056. (16-Mar) Red, White and Blue (Simon Rumley, 2010) B+
057. (16-Mar) The Loved Ones (Sean Byrne, 2010) B
058. (17-Mar) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1928) A
059. (17-Mar) The Red Chapel (Mads Bruger & Johan Stahl, 2010) B+
060. (17-Mar) Cargo (Ivan Engler & Ralph Etter, 2010) C
061. (18-Mar) Paper Heart (Nicolas Jasenovec, 2009)* C+ [pan-and-scan]
062. (26-Mar) How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders, 2010) B
063. (27-Mar) Remember Me (Allen Coulter, 2010) C
064. (29-Mar) Hachi: A Dog's Tale (Lasse Hallstrom, 2009)* B+ [pan-and-scan]
065. (29-Mar) Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)* B+ [pan-and-scan]
065. (29-Mar) The Hangover (Todd Phillips, 2009)* B [down from B+] [pan-and-scan]
066. (29-Mar) Chloe (Atom Egoyan, 2010) B
067. (30-Mar) Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier, 2010) D+
068. (31-Mar) She's Out of My League (Jim Field Smith, 2010) B-
069. (2-Apr) The Eclipse (Conor McPherson, 2010) B-
070. (2-Apr) Storage (Matthew Craft, 2009) D
071. (3-Apr) Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik, 2010) C+
072. (3-Apr) Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968) A-
073. (3-Apr) Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) B+
074. (4-Apr) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, 2010) B
075. (5-Apr) The Greatest (Shana Feste, 2010) B-
076. (6-Apr) After.Life (Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, 2010) D
077. (10-Apr) Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) C+
078. (10-Apr) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Thor Freudenthal, 2010) B-
079. (11-Apr) Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010) B
080. (12-Apr) The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, 2010) B-
081. (16-Apr) The Square (Nash Edgerton, 2010) B
082. (17-Apr) Date Night (Shawn Levy, 2010) C
083. (19-Apr) City Island (Raymond de Felitta, 2010) C+
084. (20-Apr) Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink, 2010) B
085. (23-Apr) The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, 2010) B
086. (24-Apr) Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2010) B
087. (25-Apr) Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2010) A-
088. (28-Apr) A Nightmare on Elm Street (Samuel Bayer, 2010) D-
089. (30-Apr) Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2010) C
090. (1-May) Ride with the Devil (Ang Lee, 1999) B
091. (1-May) Nenette (Nicolas Philibert, 2010) B-
092. (2-May) I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2010) B
093. (2-May) Bodyguards and Assassins (Teddy Chan, 2010) C+
094. (4-May) Splice (Vincenzo Natali, 2010) B+
095. (7-May) Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2010) B
096. (8-May) Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010) C-
097. (8-May) The Possession of David O'Reilly (Andrew Cull, 2010) B-
098. (8-May) Ondine (Neil Jordan, 2010) B
099. (9-May) Letters to Juliet (Gary Winick, 2010) C-
100. (9-May) The Human Centipede (Tom Six, 2010) C+
101. (10-May) Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) B+
102. (11-May) Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, 2010) B-
103. (14-May) High Tide (John Reinhardt, 1947) C+
104. (14-May) Mysterious Intruder (William Castle, 1946) B
105. (15-May) Please Give (Nicole Holofcener, 2010) C+
106. (15-May) 99 River Street (Phil Karlson, 1953) C-
107. (15-May) Shield for Murder (Howard Koch and Edmond O'Brien, 1954) C+
xxx. (17-May) Mother and Child (Rodrigo Garcia, 2010) Walk Out
108. (19-May) Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller, 2010) B-
109. (21-May) Roses are Red (James Tinling, 1947) B
110. (21-May) The Secret of the Whistler (George Sherman, 1946) B-
111. (22-May) Casino Jack and the United States of Money (Alex Gibney, 2010) C+
112. (22-May) Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2010)* B-
113. (23-May) Macgruber (Jorma Taccone, 2010) D+
114. (27-May) The City of Your Final Destination (James Ivory, 2010) B-
115. (29-May) Dare (Adam Salky, 2009)* B-
116. (30-May) Shrek Forever After (Mike Mitchell, 2010) C
117. (30-May) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Mike Newell, 2010) C+
118. (5-Jun) Killers (Robert Luketic, 2010) C-
119. (5-Jun) Mercy (Patrick Hoelck, 2010) B
119. (6-Jun) Cypher (Vincenzo Natali, 2002)^* B+
120. (6-Jun) Nothing (Vincenzo Natali, 2003)* B-
121. (8-Jun) The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart, 2010) B
122. (15-Jun) Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich, 2010) A
123. (17-Jun) Solitary Man (Ben Koppelman and David Levien, 2010) B-
124. (24-Jun) The Oath (Laura Poitras, 2010) B
125. (25-Jun) Hideaway (Francois Ozon, 2010) C
126. (26-Jun) Jonah Hex (Jimmy Hayward, 2010) C
127. (26-Jun) Knight and Day (James Mangold, 2010) B
128. (29-Jun) Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Love, 2010) B
129. (2-Jul) The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyamalan, 2010) C
130. (3-Jul) The Oxford Murders (Alex de la Iglesia, 2010)* B-
131. (4-Jul) The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom, 2010)* B+
132. (6-Jul) Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996)* B
133. (8-Jul) Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2009)* D+
134. (9-Jul) Predators (Nimrod Antal, 2010) B
135. (11-Jul) The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) B
136. (16-Jul) Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) A
137. (17-Jul) Eclipse (David Slade, 2010) C
138. (17-Jul) The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995)* B+
139. (8-Aug) The Disappearance of Alice Creed (J. Blakeson, 2010) B-
140. (9-Aug) Charlie St. Cloud (Burr Steers, 2010) D+
141. (9-Aug) Salt (Philip Noyce, 2010) B
142. (9-Aug) Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)^ A
143. (10-Aug) Going the Distance (Nanette Bursten, 2010) B-
144. (10-Aug) Step Up 3D (John M. Chu, 2010) C
145. (10-Aug) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010) B
146. (11-Aug) Animal Kingdom (David Michod, 2010) B+
147. (11-Aug) Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, 2010) C
148. (12-Aug) The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm, 2010) B+
149. (13-Aug) Jack Goes Boating (Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2010) B-
150. (15-Aug) Agora (Alejandro Amenabar, 2010) A-
151. (16-Aug) Farewell (Christian Carion, 2010) A
152. (17-Aug) The Switch (Josh Gordon and Will Speck, 2010) C+
153. (19-Aug) Flipped (Rob Reiner, 2010) B
154. (21-Aug) Piranha (Alexandre Aja, 2010) B
155. (21-Aug) The Other Guys (Adam McKay, 2010) B-
156. (24-Aug) Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 2010) C-
157. (25-Aug) Takers (John Luessenhop, 2010) C+
158. (26-Aug) Catfish (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2010) B
159. (2-Sep) Cairo Time (Ruba Nadda, 2010) B
160. (3-Sep) Chico & Rita (Javier Mariscal & Fernando Trueba, 2010) C
161. (3-Sep) Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears, 2010) B
162. (3-Sep) The Way Back (Peter Weir, 2010) B
163. (4-Sep) The First Movie (Mark Cousins, 2010) D+
164. (4-Sep) 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010) B
165. (4-Sep) The First Grader (Justin Chadwick, 2010) C
166. (4-Sep) Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010) A-
167. (5-Sep) Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu, 2010) C
168. (5-Sep) The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, 2010) B-
169. (5-Sep) Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010) B+
170. (5-Sep) The King's Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010) C+
171. (6-Sep) Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010) B+
172. (6-Sep) Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010) B- [5.5-hour cut]
173. (7-Sep) Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2010) B+
174. (11-Sep) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)* B+
175. (11-Sep) The American (Anton Corbijn, 2010) B
176. (11-Sep) The Tillman Story (Amir Bar-Lev, 2010) B
177. (12-Sep) The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010) D+
178. (12-Sep) The Girl Who Played with Fire (Daniel Alfredson, 2010) D
179. (14-Sep) Buried (Rordigo Cortes, 2010) B
180. (15-Sep) It's Kind of a Funny Story (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, 2010) B
181. (17-Sep) The Town (Ben Affleck, 2010) B+
182. (17-Sep) Devil (John Erick Dowdle, 2010) B-
183. (18-Sep) Easy A (Will Gluck, 2010) B
184. (18-Sep) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates, 2009)^* B+
185. (19-Sep) Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman, 2004)* C
186. (20-Sep) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone, 2010) C
187. (24-Sep) A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (Zhang Yimou, 2010) B-
188. (25-Sep) Hatchet (Adam Green, 2006)* C
189. (25-Sep) Twist (Jacob Tierney, 2003)* C
190. (1-Oct) The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010) A-
191. (2-Oct) Let Me In (Matt Reeves, 2010) B
192. (2-Oct) Waiting for "Superman" (Davis Guggenheim, 2010) C+
193. (2-Oct) Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Zack Snyder, 2010) C-
194. (7-Oct) Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek, 2010)^ Masterpiece [previous viewing: A-]
195. (13-Oct) My Soul to Take (Wes Craven, 2010) C+
196. (15-Oct) The Housemaid (Hong Sang-Soo, 2010) C+
197. (16-Oct) Rabbit Hole (John Cameron Mitchell, 2010) A-
198. (17-Oct) The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) A
199. (19-Oct) Stone (John Curran, 2010) B+
200. (20-Oct) Unstoppable (Tony Scott, 2010) B+
201. (21-Oct) Paranormal Activity 2 (Tod Williams, 2010) B-
202. (23-Oct) Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010) D+
xxx. (23-Oct) Red (Robert Schwentke, 2010) Walk Out
203. (24-Oct) Nowhere Boy (Sam Taylor-Wood, 2010) C
204. (24-Oct) Conviction (Tony Goldwyn, 2010) C+
205. (24-Oct) Black Death (Christopher Smith, 2010)* A-
206. (26-Oct) Frozen (Adam Green, 2010) B-
207. (28-Oct) Rapt (Lucas Belvaux, 2009) B-
208. (29-Oct) Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010) C+
209. (30-Oct) The Princess of Montpensier (Bernard Tavernier, 2010) B-
210. (31-Oct) The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)^ A [previous viewing: A-]
211. (3-Nov) Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) C
212. (9-Nov) Fair Game (Doug Liman, 2010) C
213. (12-Nov) Skyline (Greg & Colin Strause, 2010) D+
214. (12-Nov) Wild Target (Jonathan Lynn, 2010) C
215. (13-Nov) Four Lions (Chris Morgan, 2010) B
216. (13-Nov) Carriers (Alex & David Pastor, 2009)* B
217. (15-Nov) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates, 2010) B-
218. (16-Nov) Due Date (Todd Phillips, 2010) C+
219. (22-Nov) Heartless (Philip Ridley, 2010)* B-
220. (22-Nov) Somewhere (Sofia Coppola, 2010)* C-
221. (22-Nov) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Jon Turteltaub, 2010)* C-
222. (23-Nov) 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010)^* B
223. (25-Nov) We Are What We Are (Jorge Michel Grau, 2010) C+
224. (26-Nov) Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, 2010)^* B+
225. (28-Nov) The Woods (Lucky McKee, 2006)* C
226. (28-Nov) The Romantics (Galt Niederhoffer, 2010) C
227. (30-Nov) All Good Things (Andrew Jarecki, 2010) C+
228. (4-Dec) Megamind (Tom McGrath, 2010) B
229. (4-Dec) Restrepo (Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington, 2010) B+
230. (5-Dec) I Love You, Phillip Morris (John Requa & Glenn Ficarra, 2010) B-
231. (5-Dec) Love and Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010) B
232. (6-Dec) The Next 3 Days (Paul Haggis, 2010) C+
233. (8-Dec) How Do You Know (James L. Brooks, 2010) B-
234. (10-Dec) The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted, 2010) D
235. (10-Dec) The Tourist (Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, 2010) C
236. (11-Dec) The Fighter (David O. Russell, 2010)* B-
237. (11-Dec) True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2010)* B+
238. (13-Dec) Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard, 2010) B-
239. (18-Dec) Rare Exports (Jalmari Helander, 2010) B+
240. (19-Dec) Tron Legacy (Joseph Kosinski, 2010) C+
241. (19-Dec) American Son (Neil Abramson, 2008)* B+
242. (21-Dec) Night Catches Us (Tanya Hamilton, 2010)* B
243. (22-Dec) Leaves of Grass (Tim Blake Nelson, 2010)* B-
244. (23-Dec) White Material (Claire Denis, 2010)* B-
245. (25-Dec) Calvin Marshall (Gary Lundgren, 2008)* C-
246. (26-Dec) Lovely, Still (Nicholas Fakler, 2010)* C
247. (26-Dec) Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)^* B+ [previous viewing: B]
248. (26-Dec) Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney, 2010)* A-
249. (27-Dec) Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010) B-
250. (29-Dec) Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance, 2010) A
251. (31-Dec) Personal Effects (David Hollander, 2009)* D+