I held this for a long time in hopes that I could see more films, but I should have known that once winter break was over that wasn’t going to happen. At any rate, these are my ten for 2009:

Up in the Air, Inglorious Basterds, An Education, A Serious Man, The Hurt Locker, Up 500 Days (of Summer), Adventureland, The Messenger, Where the Wild Things Are,  Lymelife

In something like that order, with Goodbye, Solo being a very close eleven. I felt this year has a larger number of very good films, if not one runaway classic, hence the closeness of the films.