Best movies of 2009
We dissect the cinema of 2009. Here is our top ranking from best to worst based strictly on our editorial autopsies.
Haneke dissects fascism with a silver scalpel in stark black and white. Cold, cruel, and essential. 9.2/10, but don’t you dare watch it on a Sunday.
Tarantino rewrites history with a scalpel of razor-sharp dialogue and black humor that reeks of gunpowder. Christoph Waltz steals the corpse.
Sean Byrne bursts onto the Australian horror scene with a bubblegum-pink gem of sadism and suffocating tension that redefines torture porn.
*Dogtooth (2009): The Instruction Manual for Turning Your Kids Into Lifetime-Guaranteed Automatons*
(2009)Yorgos Lanthimos bursts onto the global cinema scene with a psychological horror satire about a father who keeps his three children isolated from the world using made-up words.
A storm, a ship, and a mystery walk into a bar. Spoiler: they don’t leave.
