Entertainment / best of 2009 10 Best Movies You Didn't See Other than 'World's Greatest Dad,' these are pretty obscure By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Dec 30, 2009 8:00 PM CST Copied 10 Best Movies You Didn't See "Armored" uses "the 'Reservoir Dogs' formula: Get six talented character actors to pull a heist, then lock them in a warehouse and watch them self-destruct." (WOAI.com San Antonio News) "The Chaser" features "ace performances, impeccable technical credits, a screenplay as sadistic as a Hitchcock film, and an ending that will reduce audiences to numb, emotionally devastated wrecks." (YouTube) "Crank 2: High Voltage," the sequel to "the underrated 'Crank,' is totally tasteless, crammed with racial stereotypes, excessively sexist," and has an excess of "energy, imagination, and ambition." (Indy Mogul) "Just Another Love Story" is "a twisted love song" about a happily married dad who pretends to be the missing boyfriend of a woman he accidentally put in a coma. (YouTube) "Forget 'The Dark Knight,' 'Mirageman' is the best superhero movie you've never seen. It's a hilarious, two-fisted send-up of the genre." (YouTube) "It's cheating to put a concert film on this list," but "Passing Strange: The Movie," "Spike Lee's record of the final three performances of the musical, takes you to church and fires up your soul." (IFCFirstTake) "One part experimental theater, one part zombie movie, 'Pontypool' gives you the end of the world with only four actors and one set." (MrRottenBrain) "'World's Greatest Dad' manages to find the humanity in humiliation, and it contains a performance by Robin Williams so restrained and subtle that it clears Patch Adams from his karmic debt load." (ReelzChannel) "Love Exposure," a "four-hour epic about cults, Catholicism, up-skirt photography, porn, imprisonment, gang fights, brainwashing, guilt, redemption, sexual abuse, and true love," was not distributed. (elultimotruco) Another honorary mention, "A Town Called Panic," is "a stop-motion, animated epic made entirely with toys, currently getting a very limited art-house release." (Reuters Entertainment) 1 of 10 Sick of reading “Best of 2009” movie lists that contain endless references to Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air? Then check out the picks Grady Hendrix made for Slate: The top 10 films of the year that you probably didn’t see. (More best of 2009 stories.) See 1 photo Report an error