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The Best of 2009?

Every year, the KFS likes to offer you a compendium of opinions as to the best films distributed the previous year.

As you re-visit our 2009 list of KFS featured films and reflect on which ones made your top-ten list, please take note of the titles we presented which are highlighted in red.  These titles occur throughout this listing of major critics top-ten lists and were shown in Kalamazoo solely due to your passionate support of the KFS.  For that, the board of the KFS would like to express their deepest appreciation.  We remain steadfast in our quest to provide you with your only local opportunity to see Big Apple titles at Little Theatre prices and look forward to seeing you and your friends throughout 2010.

Thank you for helping provide your community with GREAT films !!

In 2009 our lineup of titles included:

Happy Go Lucky
A Christmas Tale
Synecdoche, N.Y.
Wendy and Lucy
Waltz With Bashir
The Class
Two Lovers
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Goodbye, Solo
Away We Go
Whatever Works
In The Loop
Cold Souls

If you'd like to submit your Top Ten titles to this page (with or without your name) we'd be delighted to add them. We're sure the world would be equally delighted to see your selections as well.

Thanks for making us part of your groove scene.

Stephanie Zacharek / Salon.com
 1. Summer Hours
 2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
 3. Antichrist
 4. The September Issue
 5. Bright Star
 6. Coraline
 7. The International
 8. Lake Tahoe
 9. Broken Embraces
10. Star Trek

Stephen Holden / The New York Times
 1. Up in the Air
 2. The White Ribbon
 3. Still Walking
 4. The Messenger
 5. 35 Shots of Rum
 6. The Hurt Locker
 7. The Headless Woman
 8. An Education
 9. Summer Hours
10. Disgrace

Stephen Holden / The New York Times
 1. Up in the Air
 2. The White Ribbon
 3. Still Walking
 4. The Messenger
 5. 35 Shots of Rum
 6. The Hurt Locker
 7. The Headless Woman
 8. An Education
 9. Summer Hours
10. Disgrace

A.O. Scott / The New York Times
 1. Where the Wild Things Are
 2. The Hurt Locker / In The Loop
 3. Summer Hours / Of Time and the City
 4. Up in the Air / Funny People
 5. Bright Star / Medicine for Melancholy
 6. Precious / Coraline
 7. Avatar / District 9
 8. A Serious Man / Anvil! The Story of Anvil
 9. Goodbye, Solo / Sugar
10. Gomorrah / The Baader Meinhof Complex

Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun-Times
 1. Bad Lieutenant
 2. Crazy Heart
 3. An Education
 4. The Hurt Locker
 5. Inglourious Basterds
 6. Knowing
 7. Precious
 8. A Serious Man
 9. Up in the Air
10. The White Ribbon
11. Departures
12. Disgrace
13. Everlasting Moments
14. Goodbye, Solo
15. Julia
16. Silent Light
17. Sin Nombre
18. Skin
19. Trucker
20. You, the Living

David Edelstein / NPR & New York Magazine
 1. Summer Hours
 2. Everlasting Moments
 3. Brothers
 4. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
 5. Tyson
 6. A Serious Man
 7. Coraline
 8. In The Loop
 9. Food, Inc.
10. The Hurt Locker
11. Of Time and the City
12. Where the Wild Things Are
13. Avatar

Kenneth Turan / Los Angeles Times
 1. Bright Star / The Hurt Locker
 2. An Education
 3. Avatar
 4. Children of Sundance
 5. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
 6. Julie & Juia
 7. Music and Sports documentaries
 8. Up
 9. Up in the Air
10. Women oversees on the verge of nervous breakdown

Ty Burr / The Boston Globe
 1. A Serious Man
 2. 35 Shots of Rum
 3. Fantastic Mr. Fox / U[
 4. The Hurt Locker / The Messenger
 5. Up in the Air / Summer Hours
 6. Bright Star / The Last Station
 7. Precious / An Education
 8. A Single Man / Bad Lieutenant
 9. Star Trek / Antichrist
10. Afghan Star / Big Fan

Michael Sragow / Baltimore Sun
 1. The Exiles
 2. The Hurt Locker
 3. The Class
 4. Up
 5. Waltz With Bashir
 6. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
 7. Bright Star
 8. Cheri
 9. Everlasting Moments
10. Precious


The American Film Institute

 1. Coraline
 2. The Hangover
 3. The Hurt Locker
 4. The Messenger
 5. Precious
 6. A Serious Man
 7. A Single Man
 8. Sugar
 9. Up
10. Up in the Air

Bob Mondello / NPR
 1. The Hurt Locker
 2. Summer Hours
 3. The Messenger
 4. Seraphine
 5. A Single Man
 6. Up
 7. In The Loop
 8. Up in the Air
 9. The Cove
10. Precious

J. Hoberman / The Village Voice
 1. The Hurt Locker
 2. Hunger
 3. Police, Adjective
 4. I'm Gonna Explode
 5. Coraline
 6. The Sun
 7. The Beaches of Agnes
 8. The Headless Woman
 9. Inglourious Basterds
10. Red Cliff
11. The Girlfriend Experience

Manohla Dargis / The New York Times
 1. Gomorrah
 2. Tulpan
 3. Summer Hours
 4. The Hurt Locker
 5. The Beaches of Agnes
 6. Public Enemies
 7. Beeswax
 8. Ponyo
 9. The Informant
10. Where the Wild Things Are
11. Fantastic Mr. Fox
12. The Sun
13. Avatar

David Ansen / Newsweek Magazine
 1. The Hurt Locker
 2. Summer Hours
 3. Up in the Air
 4. In the Loop
 5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
 6. Up
 7. Seraphine
 8. Rudo y Corsi
 9. Avatar
10. An Education
11. Tulpan
12. Sin Nombre

Wesley Morris / Boston Globe
 1. 35 Shots of Rum
 2. The White Ribbon
 3. Police, Adjective
 4. Avatar
 5. Precious
 6. LaDanse
 7. The Hurt Locker
 8. The Baader Meinhof Complex
 9. The Soloist
10. Valentino: The Last Emperor

Mick LaSalle / San Francisco Chronicle
 1. Inglourious Basterds
 2. The Hurt Locker
 3. Up in the Air
 4. Two Lovers
 5. Ravenche
 6. Funny People
 7. Precious
 8. Cheri
 9. Summer Hours
10. Food, Inc.

Michael Phillips / The Chicago Tribune
 1. Up
 2. Where the Wild Things Are
 3. Waltz With Bashir
 4. Of Time and the City
 5. The Hurt Locker
 6. A Serious Man
 7. In The Loop
 8. Sugar
 9. Me and Orson Welles
10. A Single Man

Peter Rainer / The Christian Science Monitor
 1. Everlasting Moments
 2. In The Loop
 3. LaDanse
 4. Me and Orson Welles
 5. Ponyo
 6. Seraphine
 7. Sugar
 8. Treeless Mountain
 9. Unmistaken Child
10. Up in the Air

Scott Tobias / The Onion
 1. 35 Shots of Rum
 2. Duplicity
 3. Humpday
 4. Collapse
 5. Julia
 6. Afterschool
 7. Revanche
 8. The House of the Devil
 9. Fantastic Mr. Fox
10. The Hurt Locker

Owen Glieberman / Entertainment Weekly
 1. Up in the Air
 2. Inglourious Basterds
 3. Precious
 4. I Love You, Man
 5. Food, Inc.
 6. (500) Days of Summer
 7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
 8. The Girlfriend Experience
 9. The Hurt Locker
10. Adventureland

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
 1. Precious
 2. Up in the Air
 3. The Hurt Locker
 4. An Education
 5. Up
 6. Where the Wild Things Are
 7. A Serious Man
 8. District 9
 9. (500) Days of Summer
10. The Messenger

Richard Corliss / Time
 1. The Princess Frog
 2. Up
 3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
 4. The Hurt Locker
 5. Up in the Air
 6. The White Ribbon
 7. A Single Man
 8. Of Time and the City
 9. District 9
10. Thirst

Lisa Schwarzbaum / Entertainment Weekly

 1. The Hurt Locker
 2. Up
 3. Coraline
 4. Up in the Air
 5. Where the Wild Things Are
 6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
 7. A Serious Man
 8. Big Fan
 9. District 9
10. Everlasting Moments

Ann Hornaday / The Washington Post
 1. The Hurt Locker
 2. Up in the Air
 3. Precious
 4. Sugar
 5. The Baader Meinhof Complex
 6. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
 7. Star Trek
 8. District 9
 9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. Humpday

 

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