Up in the Air(2009)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job traveling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest and a new hire.



(500) Days of Summer(2009)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 82

An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.



An Education(2009)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.



Inglourious Basterds(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.



Crazy Heart(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.



Precious(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.



A Serious Man(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 83

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.



Invictus(2009)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.



Adventureland(2009)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.



A Single Man(2009)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.



Where the Wild Things Are(2009)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Yearning for escape and adventure, a young boy runs away from home and sails to an island filled with creatures that take him in as their king.



Moon(2009)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.



Fish Tank(2009)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.



Watchmen(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.



The Road(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.



Julie & Julia(2009)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book.



Funny People(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.



The Informant!(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.



Whip It(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.



The Damned United(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.




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