Weinberg’s Top 20 of 2009

Let’s keep this quick and easy. You’ve probably seen twelve dozen year-end “best of 2009″ lists, but this one is mine! No rambling commentary, no goofy synopses, just 20 films from the past 12 months that I liked the best. (These are listed alphabetically .) (500) Days of Summer — There are tons of romance-intensive films that are funny, familiar, and/or heartbreaking, but here’s one that tackles one of the pricklier situations: when one partner is clearly “more into” the relationship than the other. Leads Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel provide pitch-perfect performances, and the screenplay is a surprisingly insightful mixture of warmth, intelligence, reality and fantasy

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Weinberg’s Top 20 of 2009