Films of 2009
2009 was the most strange year of its era.
Across 368 well-known films, 2009 reads higher on strangeness than the decade around it — 39.2 against 36.4, a gap of 2.8. Every year is measured against its own era rather than against all of cinema, because a slow trend is not a year’s signature.
The best-liked films of 2009
Inglourious Basterds
8.2 / 10
Prayers for Bobby
8.1 / 10
Up
8.0 / 10
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
8.0 / 10
The Secret in Their Eyes
8.0 / 10
3 Idiots
8.0 / 10
The Cove
8.0 / 10
Coraline
7.9 / 10
Mary and Max
7.9 / 10
Castaway on the Moon
7.9 / 10
Mr. Nobody
7.8 / 10
Fantastic Mr. Fox
7.8 / 10
The most singular films of 2009
Highest Cinnamon Scores of the year, leaving out anything already listed above. Not the best films of 2009 — the ones you cannot get anywhere else.
Redline
Cinnamon 89
Dogtooth
Cinnamon 87
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Cinnamon 87
Avatar
Cinnamon 86
Moon
Cinnamon 86
The White Ribbon
Cinnamon 86
Black Dynamite
Cinnamon 85
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Cinnamon 84
Mother
Cinnamon 84
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Cinnamon 84
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Cinnamon 83
The Lovely Bones
Cinnamon 79