Tom Charity

CNN.com

Tom is film critic for CNN.com and the UK’s LOVEFiLM.com, and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and CinemaScope. In addition, he is programmer for the Vancouver International Film Centre’s Vancity Theatre (www.vifc.org). Books include Little Book of Big Ideas: Film; The Rough Guide to Film; John Cassavetes: Lifeworks; and BFI Modern Classics: The Right Stuff.


Best of the Decade Critics Survey 2000s »

Best of the Decade »

1) Yi Yi

2) Code Unknown

3) A.I.: Artificial Intelligence

4) Birth

5) There Will Be Blood

6) Memories of Murder

7) In the City of Sylvia

8) L'Enfant

9) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

10) Kung Fu Hustle

Annual Critics Survey 2009 »

Best Film »

1) A Serious Man

2) Inglourious Basterds

3) Ponyo

4) Two Lovers

5) Police, Adjective

6) The Headless Woman

7) Coraline

8) The Hurt Locker

9) Bright Star

10) Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Lead Performance »

1) Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers

2) Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

3) Matt Damon, The Informant!

4) Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers

5) Maria Onetto, The Headless Woman

Best Supporting Performance »

1) Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

2) Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

3) Billy Crudup, Public Enemies

4) Robert Guenveur Smith, Fighting

5) Kerry Fox, Bright Star

Best Director »

1) Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo

Best Documentary »

1) The Beaches of Agnes

Best Screenplay »

1) Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best First Feature »

1) Oren Pell, Paranormal Activity

Best Undistributed Film »

1) To Die Like a Man

Films

35 Shots of Rum A

500 Days of Summer B

A Prophet B+ (Review)

A Serious Man A

Adventureland B

Alice in Wonderland B (Review)

Amelia C

Amreeka C+

An Education B

Antichrist D

Away We Go B

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans B

Before Tomorrow B

Bright Star A

Bruno B

Capitalism: A Love Story B

Coraline A

Drag Me to Hell B

Goodbye Solo B

Green Zone B- (Review)

In the Loop B-

Inglourious Basterds A

Me and Orson Welles B-

Mother B+

Paranormal Activity B-

Police, Adjective A-

Ponyo A

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” By Sapphire C+

Red Cliff B-

Shutter Island A (Review)

Taking Woodstock C+

Tales from the Script C

Tetro B

The Beaches of Agnès (Les Plages d’Agnès) A

The Box C-

The Boys Are Back B-

The Damned United B-

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo B-

The Hurt Locker B+

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus B

The Informant B+

The Invention of Lying C+

The Maid (La nana) B-

The Men Who Stare at Goats C+

The Road A-

The Runaways B-

The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) B+

Thirst (Bakjwi) B+

Treeless Mountain B+

Up B+

Up in the Air B

Whatever Works C

Where the Wild Things Are B

Whip It B-

White Material B

9 C
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Mars
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Four Lions
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Tiny Furniture
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A-
Audrey the Trainwreck
Vadim Rizov, IFC.com
A-
Winter’s Bone
David Hudson, The Auteurs
C
Tiny Furniture
Vadim Rizov, IFC.com
B
Audrey the Trainwreck
David Hudson, The Auteurs
B
Skeletons
David Hudson, The Auteurs
B-
Daddy Longlegs
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