Best Fantasy movies of 2009

Avatar(2009)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 88

A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.



Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince(2009)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.



Coraline(2009)

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Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 85

An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.



The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.



The Invention of Lying(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer seizes the opportunity for personal gain.



The Twilight Saga: New Moon(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black.



Thirst(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.



Enter the Void(2009)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A French drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.



The Time Traveler's Wife(2009)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Chicago librarian has a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, creating complications in his marriage.



The Box(2009)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.



Valhalla Rising(2009)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.



Ghosts of Girlfriends Past(2009)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

While attending his brother's wedding, a serial womanizer is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends.



Underworld: Rise of the Lycans(2009)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.



Looking for Eric(2009)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.



Mr. Nobody(2009)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.



Ninja Assassin(2009)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Joon Lee, Rick Yune, Rain, Naomie Harris,
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A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.



Solomon Kane(2009)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.



Shorts(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.



Heartless(2009)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.



Antichrist(2009)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.




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