Includes an interview with The Lovely Bones' Peter Jackson by Gavin Smith, Andrew Sarris on Vincere, Hot Property: Un lac by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: African Film Library by Paul Fileri, a review of A Prophet by Amy Taubin, Grahm Fuller on the Red Riding trilogy, Wrap-ups of the Films of the Year (including Terra Incognita and Movies That Mattered) and the Decade. Plus, a chance to vote in our annual Readers' Poll, which automatically enters participants in a drawing to win Criterion DVDs...

- Matt Damon And Paul Greengrass in Green Zone<br>
- Best of 2009 and Best of Decade - Reader Polls<br>
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PLUS: 2009 Box Office Rundown, Breillat's Bluebeard, Nicole Holofcener's self-sabotaging women... and more!

Includes Geoffrey O'Brien on Breathless, Chris Fujiwara on the newly reconstructed Metropolis, Andrew Sarris on Roman Polanski, Hot Property: Kinatay by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: Abecedarium: NYC by Jesse P. Finnegan, Avant-Garde Poll: The Best Experimental Films of the Decade, reviews of The Oath, World on a Wire, Trash Humpers, and I Am Love, plus short takes on Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Best Worst Movie, Double Take, Mademoiselle Chambon, and Solitary Man

- Christopher Nolan<br>
- Tinto Brass: Italy's Maestro of Smut<br>
- Bloggers vs. Old School Critics - a truce<br>
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PLUS: Valhalla Rising's Viking Death Trip... and more!

Includes Scott Foundas on David Fincher's The Social Network, part two of Paul Brunick's article on the recent state of film criticism, Tom Mes on Masahiro Shinoda, Andrew Sarris on Sacha Guitry, Hot Property: Extraordinary Stories by Chris Chang, Site Specifics: jomasmekasfilms.com by Jesse P. Finnegan, reviews of Tamara Drewe, Nuremberg, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Last Train Home, plus short takes on Buried, Catfish, Heartbreaker, The Milk of Sorrow, Nowhere Boy, and Vision.