In 2009 I watched 289 movies, a total of 108 of them at the cinema, and running at over 21 days! I rate each movie after I’ve watched them and below are my best of last year.

Although some of the movies below where ‘released’ in 2008, they didn’t make it over to the UK until 2009. These are the movies, twenty-four in total, that I watched in 2009 and I rated 8 or above.

Best of the Rest

These movies are my ‘best of the rest’ which were released in 2009. They are selection of movies, some of which you may have already watched (and hopefully enjoyed) and others which I thought were interesting and may have been under your radar.

• The Hangover
• Triangle
• Harry Brown
• Duplicity

The Hangover was extremely well received and rightfully so. I don’t tend to watch much comedy, and this had some flaws, but it was fully enjoyable. Triangle was an interesting, well thought-through thriller/horror. With a small cast, an interesting story and (what I thought was) a good twist / ending, I feel Triangle is worth a mention, especially if you like the genre.

Harry Brown is a British revenge movie. Unlike the revenge movie Law Abiding Citizen, Harry Brown is a violently dark but subtle commentary on youthful disrespect of the elderly found in many cities and depraved areas throughout Britain.

I really enjoyed the chemistry between Clive Owen and Julia Roberts in Duplicity, a twisting and turning corporate crime thriller con job! It’s the kind of movie which needs multiple viewings to fully appreciate what you know at the end so you can apply it to every scene. I will be looking forward to watching this again in 2010.

This is the first entry in a series of four documenting my review of 2009 in movies.