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It’s the end of the year, so everybody feels obligated to make their “Best Of” lists.  Given that I feel 2009 was a rather weak year in cinema, I was tempted to not even bother.  However, after looking over the list of everything that came out this year, I realized that while there were very few films I would consider “classics” or “must-sees” in the vein of last year’s Wall-E or2007’s There Will Be Blood, there were plenty of films that were way above-average and worth tracking down.  So here’s my list of the Top 10 (or Top 16 if we’re including Honorable Mentions) films of the year.  While it’s possible I may have liked certain films slightly more or less shortly after their initial release, these are the ones that stick out the most in my mind as being the most noteworthy and potentially deserving of multiple viewings.  Since ranking them from “least” to “greatest” is often very difficult and nit-picky, I’ve organized them in alphabetical order.

NOTE: Though I've seen 120+ of the films released this year, I still haven't seen a few films that I've heard are noteworthy: Antichrist, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Crazy Heart, A Single Man and Away We Go.  I also haven't seen several foreign and independent films that a lot of critics are raving about.  With that in mind, here's my list.