Ebert’s Top 10 Mainstream & Top 10 Independent films of 2009

The Top 10 Mainstream Films

• Bad Lieutenant
• Crazy Heart
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Knowing
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• The White Ribbon

“Now you are thinking, hey, what about Avatar? Faithful readers know of my annual Special Jury Prize. This year it goes to James Cameron’s ground-breaking epic. No, that doesn’t mean it’s the best film of the year. It means it won the Special Jury Prize.”

The Top Ten Independent Films

• Departures
• Disgrace
• Everlasting Moments
• Goodbye Solo
• Julia
• Silent Light
• Sin Nombre
• Skin
• Trucker
• You, the Living

(thanks, Antoinette)