films of the year 2009
1. Let The Right One In
2. Moon
3. Where The Wild Things Are
4. Synechdoche New York
5. Up
6. Encounters at the End of the World
7. In The Loop
8. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. Coraline
Also worth a mention: Sleep Furiously, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Star Trek, District 9
[EDIT: I completely forgot about The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, which suffered from some clunky dialogue at times but more than made up for that with Gilliams uniqueness of vision and imagination. Squeeze that one in at number 6 and bump everything else down one.]

