Simply the Best: Top 10 Films of 2009 By MyCineplex
Adventureland
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion that can evoke the most splendid of memories or haunt someone who thought the worst of it was over. Greg Mottola’s '80s-set Adventureland smartly uses that looking-back sensibility to get to the heart of the matter, ensuring anyone who has experienced post-university/college blues – so wait, I’m an adult now? – will immediately relate to big-hearted, too-smart-for-his-own-good protagonist James (a pitch-perfect Jesse Eisenberg). After his dad takes a big pay cut at work, James is forced to cancel his planned summer in NYC and slug it out with fellow misfits working at the local amusement park, including Martin Starr of “Freak and Geeks” fame and a remarkably mature Kristen Stewart as James' equally clever crush. This sweet, though not cloying, look at those last hazy days of adolescence before life kicks in aptly romanticizes the fleeting nature of youth while happily bidding it goodbye.
The Top 10 By FW Weekly
Adventureland
If you had told me last year that the same actor would star in two of the 10 best movies of 2009, I wouldn't have guessed it would be Jesse Eisenberg. Yet he successfully carried both Zombieland and this wistful teen romance about a budding intellectual who finds love while working at a crappy amusement park. Filmmaker Greg Mottola carefully shades in some all-too-believable characters in this dead-end location, but it's the performances of Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart (check the climactic argument on the street) that are worth losing your head over.
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