Movie Guide 2009

For many years, ZAGAT Survey has reported on the shared experiences of diners and travellers. It has since expanded to cover entertaining, nightlife, shopping and golf. Now ZAGAT brings you the ultimate moviegoers' guide. The ZAGAT Movie Guide is a compilation of the 1,250 best films to watch. The average moviegoer who participated in this survey has watched approximately 2.2 movies per week (working out to be about 613,000 films annually). Each surveyor separately rates the films for Overall Quality, Acting, Story and Production Values, resulting in this being a unique and reliable guide. Over 5,300 people participated in this survey and, although all these people are very different, they all have one common trait - they are all movie lovers. When producing the review contained in this guide, the editors have synopsised surveyors' opinions with their exact comments (shown in quotation marks). Last year's top film was Lives of Others, followed by Letters from Iwo Jima and Pan's Labyrinth.