2009 was so last year...

Oof. Just realised that, despite blurting it all over the various other web-hovels I hang out at, I never actually upped my top twenty of 2009. So here it is, at a juncture where precisely nobody cares about end-of-year lists any more.

1. Where The Wild Things Are (Jonze)
2. Inglorious Basterds (Tarantino)
3. A Serious Man (Coen)
4. In The Loop (Ianucci)
5. Antichrist (Von Trier)
6. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
7. Fish Tank (Arnold)
8. Milk (Van Sant)
9. Coraline (Selick)
10. The White Ribbon (Haneke)
11. Up (Docter / Peterson)
12. Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle)
13. Avatar (Cameron)
14. Pontypool (McDonald)
15. The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
16. Zombieland (Fleischer)
17. Looking for Eric (Loach)
18. Away We Go (Mendes)
19. An Education (Scherfig)
20. District 9 (Blomkamp)