Top Ten of 2009

It's heavily peppered with Sci-Fi-ish stuff, so if that ain't your bag, so be it.

In no particular order:

10. The Hurt Locker

9. Moon

8. Star Trek

7. Fantastic Mr. Fox

6. Up in the Air

5. Avatar

4. In the Loop

3. Up [the first half of it, at any rate]

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Need a little more time for certain titles to percolate, as well as an alarming number of films I just didn't get to yet.

Ten best of 2008

Lots of great movies in 2008.  My choices for ten best:*

1.  Wall•E

2.  Slumdog Millionaire

3.  The Visitor

4.  Tropic Thunder

5.  Gran Torino

6.  Milk

7.  The Wrestler

8.  The Bank Job

9.  The Dark Knight

* it's always nine to allow for those many films of '08 that I haven't seen yet.