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	Title Publication	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Cargo 200 New York Times	01/02/09	Good	"...conjures a political and moral landscape drowning in corruption and pickled in black-market vodka.... plumbs near-comical depths of anti-Communist fury. Not many people will be laughing."
2.	My Bloody Valentine 3-D New York Times	01/17/09	Very Good	"A strange synergy of old and new... blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in."
3.	The Photograph New York Times	01/21/09	Excellent	"...beautifully acted... a haunting -- and haunted -- examination of the way simple snapshots can galvanize and obstruct our ability to move on.... Compensating for the languid narrative is the richness of Yadi Sugandi's cinematography..."
4.	The Lodger New York Times	01/23/09	Poor	"...ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer oblivious to both.... Mr. Ondaatje stuffs the screen with scudding clouds, speeded-up traffic..."
5.	The Toe Tactic New York Times	01/28/09	Moderate	"Depending on your tolerance for relentless whimsy and unflagging eccentricity, the film will make you gurgle with delight or groan with exasperation.... a saccharine-sweet, intermittently irritating fable about the salve of creativity. Or something like that."
6.	Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh New York Times	01/28/09	Fair	"...the director ignores every opportunity to excavate the heroine from the heroism... a tribute that leaves Ms. Senesh 's personality as vague in the final frame as in the first."
7.	Our City Dreams New York Times	02/04/09	Very Good	"...a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination.... director Chiara Clemente makes smooth transitions among styles, mediums and personalities."
8.	Push New York Times	02/06/09	Good (Not Great)	"Paul McGuigan directs with maximum efficiency and minimum use of computers, creating effects that feel satisfyingly tangible."
9.	Life. Support. Music. New York Times	02/06/09	Very Good	"If you can get past the excruciating title, with its forced uplift and intimation of immobility, 'Life. Support. Music.' is a blessedly nimble journey from loss to reclamation."
10.	The Trouble With Romance New York Times	02/27/09	Poor	"...visually stagnant and tonally bewildered. As characters exchange platitudes and burp clichés, the director, Gene Rhee (who also co-wrote), reveals a clouded eye and a tin ear. Or maybe he just has a lot of friends who actually say 'for reals.' "
11.	Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li New York Times	03/02/09	Moderate	"...generic... A restroom tussle between Chun-Li and a slinky lesbian villain is wonderfully inventive and humorously revealing."
12.	Sherman's Way New York Times	03/06/09	Good	"...the director, Craig Saavedra, generates surprising warmth from the familiar tropes of the odd-couple road movie.... he allows Mr. Le Gros room to engage."
13.	The Last House on the Left (2009) New York Times	03/13/09	Very Good	"...though I have never actually heard a skull exploding in a microwave, I suspect the movie's sound designers deserve some kind of an award..."
14.	We Pedal Uphill: Stories From the States 2001-2008 New York Times	03/20/09	Good	"The performances are across-the-board solid... Neither self-righteous nor bombastic, these wide-ranging mini-tales coast on a gently insistent tone of regret.... Mr. Tec reminds us that change does not happen overnight."
15.	Skills Like This New York Times	03/20/09	Good	"...gazes indulgently on 20-something aimlessness and the comfort of assigned roles. In Mr. Miranda's hands sloth can be more appealing than you might think."
16.	Steam New York Times	03/20/09	Poor	"Written in shorthand and directed in ungainly chunks by Kyle Schickner... the kind of movie in which a single Sapphic embrace turns a timid churchgoer into a pierced, political rebel."
17.	The Haunting in Connecticut New York Times	03/27/09	Good	"...gives you the creeps, the giggles and the groans in almost equal measure.... Peter Cornwell delivers some genuinely grisly imagery..."
18.	The Perfect Sleep New York Times	03/27/09	Fair	"...a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion.... wavers between homage and parody. But you can't look at something sideways while placing it on a pedestal..."
19.	The Education of Charlie Banks New York Times	03/27/09	Very Good	"...a prickly examination of the sturdiness of class boundaries... thanks to sincere performances and clever writing, the movie never becomes maudlin."
20.	Bart Got a Room New York Times	04/03/09	Fair	"A teenage comedy with an old-fogy scent... Aiming for John Hughes by way of Woody Allen... moves to the rhythms of a big-band soundtrack and a borscht-belt vibe."

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