FAVORITES OF THE YEAR SO FAR

Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 (A+)
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies (A+)
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (A+)
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are (A+)
Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (A+)
Pete Docter’s Up (A+)
Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah (A+)
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck’s Sugar (A+)
Ramin Bahrani’s Good Bye Solo (A+)
Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! (A+)

Jody Hill’s Observe and Report (A+)
Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (A)
Henry Selick’s Coraline (A)
Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (A)
Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad (A)
Todd Philips’ The Hangover (A)
Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 123 (A)
Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol (A)
Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre (A)
Sam Mendes’ Away We Go (A)

Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer (A)
Alastair Fothergill’s Earth (A)
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (A-)
Mike Judge’s Extract (A-)
Neveldine/Taylor’s Crank: High Voltage (A-)
Jim Sheridan’s Brothers (A-)
James Gray’s Two Lovers (A-)
Larry Charles’ Bruno (A-)
Kevin McDonald’s State of Play (A-)
Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia (A-)

Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience (A-)
Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Big Man Japan (A-)
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds (B+)
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare At Goats (B+)
John Hamburg’s I Love You, Man (B+)
Greg Mottola’s Adventureland (B+)
David Thwoy’s A Perfect Getaway (B+)
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell (B+)
Stephen Belber’s Management (B+)
Anne Fletcher’s The Proposal (B+)

Tony Gilroy’s Duplicity (B+)
George Tillman Jr.’s Notorious (B+)
Derek Martini’s Lymelife (B+)
Woody Allen’s Whatever Works (B)
Judd Apatow’s Funny People (B)
Neveldine/Taylor’s Gamer (B)
Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (B)
Bob Schwentke’s The Time Traveler’s Wife (B)
Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom (B)
Christine Jeff’s Sunshine Cleaning (B)

Joe Wright’s The Soloist (B)
Alex Proyas’ Knowing (B)
Tom Tywker’s The International (B)
Dennis Illiads’ The Last House on the Left (B)
Brad Silberling’s Land of the Lost (B-)
Howard McCain’s Outlander (B-)
Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over (B-)
Pierre Morel’s Taken (C)
Rawson Marshall Thurber’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (C)
Eric Zoncka’s Julia (C-)

Ken Kwapis’ He’s Just Not That Into You (C-)
Paul McGuigan’s Push (C-)
McG’s Terminator: Salvation (D)
Gregor Jordan’s The Informers (D)
Stephen Sommers’ GI Joe (D)
Timothy Linh Bui’s Powder Blue (D)
Justin Lin’s Fast and Furious (D)
Damien Dante Wayans’ Dance Flick (D-)