Up and Hurt Locker named best-reviewed films of 2009

Up, Pixar's animated tale of an elderly adventurer and his balloon-propelled house, has been named as one of the two best-reviewed films of 2009 by the critical aggregator site Rottentomatoes.com. Pete Docter's film won the Golden Tomato award for best-reviewed wide-release movie, while Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq tale The Hurt Locker picked up the corresponding gong for limited-release films. The awards are gleaned from ratings collated by the site from the published opinions of more than 200 top film critics. Up's success means Pixar has scored a hat-trick – the Disney-owned animation studio won the award in 2008 and 2007 for WALL-E and Ratatouille respectively. Lone Scherfig's coming of age drama An Education was the best-reviewed British film, and also picked up an award for best drama. There was more UK success for Armando Iannucci's political satire In the Loop, which won best-reviewed comedy. And Havana Marking's documentary Afghan Star, which followed four contestants in a Kabul-based reality TV talent competition, took the Golden Tomato for best-reviewed foreign language film. At the opposite end of the spectrum, the videogame adaptation Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li has the dubious merit of being the worst-reviewed film of 2009. It picks up the Mouldy Tomato award – only 4% of critics thought it was any good at all.