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2008 Critics' Picks
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
1 Synecdoche, New York
2 Tell No One
3 Milk
4 The Pool
5 Elegy
6 My Winnipeg
7 Gomorrah
8 Gran Torino
9 U2 3D
10 Slumdog Millionaire
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Let the Right One In
3 The Wrestler
4 My Winnipeg
5 Gomorrah
6 Man on Wire
7 Waltz with Bashir
8 Blindness
9 Son of Rambow
10 Funny Games
Austin Chronicle (Kimberley Jones)
1 Synecdoche, New York
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Elegy
4 Happy-Go-Lucky
5 Rachel Getting Married
6 Let the Right One In
7 Tell No One
8 Son of Rambow
9 In Search of a Midnight Kiss
10 WALL-E
Austin Chronicle (Josh Rosenblatt)
1 A Christmas Tale
2 Gomorrah
3 Wendy and Lucy
4 The Counterfeiters
5 I’ve Loved You So Long
6 Synecdoche, New York
7 Man on Wire
8 Che
9 The Wrestler
10 Trouble the Water
Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
1 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 WALL-E
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Happy-Go-Lucky
5 The Edge of Heaven
6 What Just Happened
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 American Teen
9 Flash of Genius
10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
1 WALL-E
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Man on Wire
4 Milk
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Wrestler
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Son of Rambow
9 Flight of the Red Balloon
10 Synecdoche, New York
Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
1 WALL-E
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 Ballast
4 Be Kind Rewind
5 The Dark Knight
6 Gomorrah
7 Milk
8 Synecdoche, New York
9 The Order of Myths
10 Wendy and Lucy
Charlotte Observer(Lawrence Toppman)
1 The Visitor
2 Jodhaa Akbar
3 The Dark Knight
4 WALL-E
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Let the Right One In
8 Mongol
9 Milk
10 Man on Wire
Chicago Reader (Andrea Gronvall)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Waltz with Bashir
3 Hunger
4 Milk
5 WALL-E
6 Elegy
7 The Class
8 Revanche
9 Let the Right One In
10 Encounters at the End of the World
Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
1 Wendy and Lucy
2 The Visitor
3 At the Death House Door
4 There Will Be Blood
5 Happy-Go-Lucky
6 The Edge of Heaven
7 Standard Operating Procedure
8 Frownland
9 Boy A
10 Frozen River
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
1 Ballast 11 Iron Man
2 The Band’s Visit 12 Milk
3 Che 13 Rachel Getting Married
4 Chop Shop 14 The Reader
5 The Dark Knight 15 Revolutionary Road
6 Doubt 16 Shotgun Stories
7 The Fall 17 Slumdog Millionaire
8 Frost/Nixon 18 Synecdoche, New York
9 Frozen River 19 W.
10 Happy-Go-Lucky 20 WALL-E
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
1 WALL-E
2 The Class
3 A Christmas Tale
4 Let the Right One In
5 The Flight of the Red Balloon
6 Alexandra
7 Man on Wire
8 Snow Angels
9 Still Life
10 The Dark Knight
Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
1 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
2 The Class
3 The Dark Knight
4 Encounters at the End of the World
5 Happy-Go-Lucky
6 I Served the King of England
7 Man on Wire
8 Still Life
9 Waltz with Bashir
10 Wendy and Lucy
Empire
1 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2 The Baader-Meinhof Complex
3 Burn After Reading
4 Changeling
5 Cloverfield
6 The Dark Knight
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 Eden Lake
9 The Escapist
10 Gomorrah
Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)
1 WALL-E
2 Milk
3 The Dark Knight
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Gomorrah
6 Wendy & Lucy
7 Trouble the Water
8 Happy-Go-Lucky
9 Man on Wire
10 Tropic Thunder
Entertainment Weekly(Owen Gleiberman)
1 The Wrestler
2 The Dark Knight
3 Rachel Getting Married
4 WALL-E
5 Momma’s Man
6 The Edge of Heaven
7 Burn After Reading
8 The Class
9 Milk
10 Tell No One
Film Threat
(Peter Vonder Haar)
1 Frozen River
2 Let the Right One In
3 The Wrestler
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Year at Danger
6 The Dark Knight
7 In Bruges
8 Gomorrah
9 Rambo
10 Doubt
The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Liam Lacey)
1 WALL-E
2 Happy-Go-Lucky
3 The Flight of the Red Balloon
4 Man on Wire
5 Paranoid Park
6 Waltz with Bashir
7 My Winnipeg
8 A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noël
9 Milk
10 Up the Yangtze
The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Rick Groen)
1 A Christmas Tale (Un Conte de Noël
2 WALL-E
3 Rachel Getting Married
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 My Winnipeg
6 The Edge of Heaven
7 Up the Yangtze
8 Happy-Go-Lucky
9 Waltz with Bashir
10 Slumdog Millionaire
The Globe & Mail [Toronto](Johanna Schneller)
1 The Class
2 Happy-Go-Lucky
3 I’ve Loved You So Long
4 Man on Wire
5 Milk
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 Standard Operating Procedure
8 Trouble the Water
9 The Visitor
10 Wendy and Lucy
Hollywood Reporter
(Kirk Honeycutt)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Dark Knight
3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Frozen River
5 WALL-E
6 Milk
7 Man on Wire
8 The Visitor
9 Iron Man
10 The Edge of Heaven
Hollywood Reporter (Sheri Linden)
1 Man on Wire
2 Ballast
3 The Dark Knight
4 The Pool
5 Paranoid Park
6 Still Life
7 Che
8 Waltz with Bashir
9 The Last Mistress
10 Encounters at the End of the World
Hollywood Reporter (Stephen Farber)
1 Waltz with Bashir
2 Boy A
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 The Reader
5 Milk
6 Frozen River
7 The Visitor
8 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Hollywood Reporter (Ray Bennett)
1 Synecdoche, New York
2 Happy-Go-Lucky
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Good
5 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6 I’ve Loved You So Long
7 The Wrestler
8 Appaloosa
9 Brideshead Revisited
10 Frost/Nixon
Hollywood Reporter
(Frank Scheck)
1 The Dark Knight
2 Milk
3 WALL-E
4 Frost/Nixon
5 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 Man on Wire
7 The Visitor
8 Slumdog Millionaire
9 Waltz with Bashir
10 Young@Heart
Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen)
1 Milk
2 WALL-E
3 The Dark Knight
4 Man on Wire
5 Slumdog Millioinaire
6 A Secret
7 Frost/Nixon
8 Frozen River
9 Encounters at the End of the World
10 Doubt
LA Weekly(Scott Foundas)
1 Still Life (tie) Fengming: A Chinese Memoire
2 Gran Torino
3 Che (tie) Hunger
4 Silent Light
5 The Dark Knight
6 Heartbeat Detector
7 A Christmas Tale (tie) The Secret of the Grain
8 Diary of the Dead (tie) Let the Right One In
9 Shine a Light (tie) Synecdoche, New York
10 Happy-Go-Luck (tie) Slumdong Millionaire (tie) WALL-E
LA Weekly(Ella Taylor)
1 Waltz with Bashir
2 Milk
3 Still Life (tie) Up the Yangtze
4 Wendy and Lucy
5 The Class (tie) A Christmas Tale
6 WALL-E
7 Slumdog Millionaire
8 The Counterfeiters
9 Moving Midway (tie) The Order of Myths
10 $9.99
Los Angeles Times (Kenenth Turan)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 A Christmas Tale (tie) The Class
3 Frost/Nixon
4 Frozen River (tie) Ballast
5 Gomorrah (tie) Happy-Go-Lucky
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 Man on Wire (tie) Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
8 Stranded (tie) Trouble the WaterBlindsight (tie) Pray the Devil BackStandard Operating Procedure (tie) Walk to Beautiful
9 Tell No One
10 WALL-E (tie) Waltz with Bashir
McLean’s Magazine (Brian D. Johnson)
1 Rachel Getting Married
2 Wendy and Lucy
3 My Winnipeg
4 Milk
5 The Wrestler
6 JCVD
7 WALL-E
8 The Class
9 Frost/Nixon
10 Slumdog Millionaire
Metacritic.com (Marc Doyle)
1 Tell No One
2 The Wrestler
3 Gran Torino
4 Boy A
5 Milk
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 The Dark Knight
8 The Visitor
9 Choke
10 Happy-Go-Lucky
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 WALL-E
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Gran Torino (tie) Changeling
5 The Dark Knight (tie) Hellboy II: The Golden Army
6 Paranoid Park
7 Frozen River
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10 Funny Games
Montreal Gazette
(John Griffin)
1 Silent Light
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 Elegy
4 The Band’s Visit
5 Rachel Getting Married
6 Waltz with Bashir
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 The Wrestler
9 WALL-E
10 In Bruges
National Post [Toronto](Chris Knight)
1 WALL-E
2 Doubt
3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Synecdoche, New York
5 Encounters at the End of the World
6 Man on Wire
7 JCVD
8 Son of Rambow
9 Tell No One
10 The Visitor
National Post [Toronto](Bob Thompson)
1 Iron Man
2 The Dark Knight
3 RocknRolla
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Slumdog Millionaire
6 Milk
7 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 Doubt
9 WALL-E
10 Tropic Thunder
National Post [Toronto](Mark Medley)
1 WALL-E
2 The Wrestler
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Let the Right One In
5 The Dark Knight
6 Step Brothers
7 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
8 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
9 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10 Iron Man (tie) JCVD
NPR
(Robert Mondello)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 WALL-E
3 Milk
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 The Class
8 Man on Wire
9 The Dark Knight
10 A Christmas Tale
New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
1 The Dark Knight
2 The Go-Getter
3 Hapy-Go-Lucky
4 Rachel Getting Married
5 Reprise
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Tropic Thunder
8 WALL-E
9 The Wrestler
10 Young@Heart
New York Daily News (Joe Neumaier)
1 The Dark Knight
2 Doubt
3 I’ve Loved You So Long
4 The Lucky Ones
5 Religulous
6 Revolutionary Road
7 Synecdoche, New York
8 W.
9 WALL-E
10 The Wrestler
New York Magazine (David Edelstein)
1 Rachel Getting Married
2 WALL-E
3 Happy-Go-Lucky
4 Cadillac Records
5 The Class
6 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
7 Waltz with Bashir
8 Shotgun Stories
9 Doubt
10 Trouble the Water
New York Post
(Lou Lumenick)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 WALL-E
3 Milk
4 A Christmas Tale
5 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 Iron Man
7 Revolutionary Road
8 The Visitor
9 Synecdoche, New York
10 Waltz with Bashir
New York Post (V.A. Musetto)
1 In the City of Sylvia
2 Wendy and Lucy
3 Momma’s Man
4 Paranoid Park
5 Let the Right One In
6 Frozen River
7 The Wrestler
8 Mongol
9 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
10 XXY
New York Post (Kyle Smith)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Man on wire
3 Seven Pounds
4 The Dark Knight
5 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
6 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 Doubt
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Funny Games
The New York Times (Stephen Holden)
1 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 WALL-E
4 Milk
5 The Last Mistress
6 Happy-Go-Lucky
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Tell No One
9 Frozen River
10 The Visitor
The New York Times
(A.O. Scott)
1 WALL-E
2 Silent Light
3 The Secret of the Grain
4 Man on Wire
5 The Edge of Heaven
6 Happy-Go-Lucky
7 Wendy and Lucy
8 Milk
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Cadillac Records
The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)
1 Happy-Go-Lucky
2 Synecdoche, New York
3 Alexandra
4 Flight of the Red Balloon
5 Silent Light
6 Paranoid Park
7 The Dark Knight
8 Encounters at the End of the World
9 Still Life
10 Wendy and Lucy
The New Yorker (Anthony Lane)
1 WALL-E
2 Changeling
3 The Wrestler
4 Iron Man
5 Quantum of Solace
6 We Own the Night
7 I’ve Loved You So Long
8 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 The Orphanage
The New Yorker (David Denby)
1 Defiance
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 The Class
4 The Wrestler
5 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6 WALL-E
7 Milk
8 Trouble the Water
9 Revolutionary Road
10 I’ve Loved You So Long
Newsweek(David Ansen)
1 Let the Right One In
2 Encounters at the End of the World
3 Wendy and Lucy
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Man on Wire
6 Silent Light
7 The Wrestler
8 Tropic Thunder
9 WALL-E
10 Waltz with Bashir
Now Magazine (Norman Wilner)
1 WALL-E
2 There Will Be Blood
3 Cloverfield
4 Synecdoche, New York
5 The Visitor
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Son of Rambow
8 Let the Right One In
9 Still Life (tie) Up the Yangtze
10 Standard Operating Procedure
Now Magazine (Barrett Hooper)
1 JCVD
2 Man on Wire
3 The Wrestler
4 Let the Right One In
5 WALL-E
6 Battle in Seattle
7 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 Redbelt
9 The Visitor
10 In Bruges
The Onion AV Club (Noel Murray)
1 WALL-E
2 Burn After Reading
3 Synecdoche, New York
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5 The Dark Knight
6 Surfwise
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Paranoid Park
9 Milk
10 My Winnipeg
The Onion AV Club (Keith Phipps)
1 Rachel Getting Married
2 WALL-E
3 Wendy and Lucy
4 Che
5 The Dark Knight
6 Milk
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 Reprise
9 Let the Right One In
10 Happy-Go-Lucky
The Onion AV Club (Nathan Rabin)
1 Rachel Getting Married
2 The Dark Knight
3 Synecdoche, New York
4 WALL-E
5 Operation Filmmaker
6 Reprise
7 Stuck
8 The Wrestler
9 Happy-Go-Lucky
10 Milk
The Onion AV Club (Tasha Robinson)
1 The Fall
2 WALL-E
3 Man on Wire
4 Redbelt
5 Synecdoche, New York
6 Cloverfield
7 Surfwise
8 The Reader
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 The Pool
The Onion AV Club (Scott Tobias)
1 Rachel Getting Married
2 WALL-E
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Standard Operating Procedure
5 Paranoid Park
6 Man on Wire
7 Funny Games
8 Wendy and Lucy
9 The Dark Knight
10 Stuck
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 The Visitor
4 Wendy and Lucy
5 I’ve Loved You So Long
6 Frozen River
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 Hancock (tie) Iron Man
9 Happy-Go-Lucky
10 In Bruges
Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
1 Encounters at the End of the World
2 Frozen River
3 Happy-Go-Lucky
4 Iron Man
5 Man on Wire
6 Milk
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Slumdog Millionaire
9 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
10 The Visitor
Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
1 A Christmas Tale
2 Happy-Go-Lucky
3 Synecdoche, New York
4 Rachel Getting Married
5 Stranded
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Tell No One
8 Wendy and Lucy
9 WALL-E
10 Doubt
Portland Oregonian (Marc Mohan)
1 Young@Heart
2 Let the Right One In
3 The Dark Knight
4 Snow Angels
5 Man on Wire
6 Tropic Thunder
7 Tell No One
8 Iron Man
9 OSS 117: Nest of Spies
10 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Portland Oregonian (Mike Russell)
1 The Dark Knight
2 Let the Right One In
3 WALL-E
4 Elegy
5 Mongol
6 Jar City
7 Tropic Thunder
8 The Spiderwick Chronicles
9 Redbelt
10 Appaloosa
Premiere(Premiere.com Staff)
1 The Dark Knight
2 Wanted
3 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4 Gran Torino
5 Taxi to the Dark Side
6 Role Models
7 Tropic Thunder
8 The Wrestler
9 Iron Man
10 Eagle Eye
ReelViews(James Berardinelli)
1 The Dark Knight
2 Doubt
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 WALL-E
5 The Wrestler
6 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Iron Man
8 Revolutionary Road
9 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
10 Frost/Nixon
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
1 Milk
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Dark Knight
4 Frost/Nixon
5 WALL-E
6 Revolutionary Road
7 The Visitor
8 Doubt
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Man on Wire
Salon(Andrew O'Hehir)
1 A Christmas Tale
2 Waltz with Bashir
3 Chop Shop
4 Encounters at the End of the World
5 Flight of the Red Balloon
6 The Secret of the Grain
7 Momma’s Man
8 Man on Wire
9 The Order of Myths
10 Reprise
Salon(Stephanie Zacharek)
1 Happy-Go-Lucky
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Ghost Town
4 Cadillac Records
5 The Class
6 The Visitor
7 Before I Forget
8 Trouble the Water
9 Sparrow
10 Iron Man (tie) Hellboy II: The Golden Army
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Hartlaub)
1 The Dark Knight
2 The Wrestler
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Milk
5 Frost/Nixon
6 The Visitor
7 Tropic Thunder
8 Man on Wire
9 WALL-E
10 Iron Man
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
1 Revolutionary Road
2 Milk
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 The Wrestler
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Roman de Gare
8 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
9 The Life Before Her Eyes
10 Baghead
Seattle Post (Sean Axmakerl)
1 A Christmas Tale
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 WALL-E
4 Let the Right One In
5 Wendy and Lucy
6 The Fall
7 The Dark Knight
8 The Class
9 Milk
10 My Blueberry Nights
Seattle Post (Bill White)
1 Shotgun Stories
2 Ashes of Time Redux
3 Katyn
4 The Visitor
5 Blindness
6 Still Life
7 Taxi to the Dark Side
8 Alexandra
9 Kenny
10 The Killing of John Lennon
Slate(Dana Stevens)
1 A Christmas Tale
2 The Class
3 The Edge of Heaven
4 Encounters at the End of the World
5 Frozen River
6 Man on Wire
7 Milk
8 WALL-E
9 Wendy and Lucy
10 The Wrestler
Time Magazine (Richard Corliss)
1 WALL-E
2 Synecdoche, New York
3 My Winnipeg
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
5 Milk
6 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Slumdog Millionaire
8 Iron Man
9 Speed Racer
10 Encounters at the End of the World
Seattle PI (William Arnold)
1 U2 3D
2 Milk (tie) Frost/Nixon (tie) W.
3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 The Reader
5 The Visitor
6 Cassandra’s Dream (tie) Vicky Cristina Barcelona
7 Iron Man (tie) The Dark Knight
8 Valkyrie
9 Slumdog Millionaire
10 WALL-E
The Toronto Star (Peter Howelll)
1 The Dark Knight
2 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 My Winnipeg
4 Man on Wire
5 Wall-E
6 Doubt
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Let the Right One In
9 The Wrestler
10 Gran Torino
USA Today (Whitney Matheson)
1 Iron Man
2 The Dark Knight
3 The Wrestler
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Rachel Getting Married
6 Pineapple Express
7 Wendy and Lucy
8 Milk
9 Young@Heart
10 Nights and Weekends
Variety(Dennis Harvey)
1 Encounters at the End of the World
2 Battle for Haditha
3 My Brother is an Only Child
4 Kenny
5 The Class
6 A Christmas Tale
7 The Signal
8 I Served the King of England
9 Happy-Go-Lucky
10 Planet B-Boy
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
1 The Flight of the Red Balloon
2 Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
3 Paranoid Park
4 Che
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 Silent Light
7 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8 In the City of Sylvia
9 WALL-E
10 Wendy and Lucy
Village Voice (Poll Results by Various)
1 Wall-E
2 The Flight of the Red Balloon
3 Happy-Go-Lucky
4 Still Life
5 A Christmas Tale
6 Waltz with Bashir
7 Milk
8 Wendy and Lucy
9 Let the Right One In
10 Synecdoche, New York
Wall Street Journal (Joe Morgenstern)
1 WALL-E
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Iron Man
5 Man on Wire
6 Still Life
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 The Visitor
9 Waltz with Bashir
10 The Wrestler
Washington Post (Ann Hornaday)
1 The Visitor
2 WALL-E
3 Milk
4 The Edge of Heaven
5 Man on Wire
6 Chicago 10
7 Happy-Go-Lucky
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 I’ve Loved You So Long
10 Tell No One
Summary of 2008 Critics Top Ten Lists
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
$9.99
Alexandra
American Teen
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Appaloosa
Ashes of Time Redux
At the Death House Door
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
Baghead
Ballast
The Band’s Visit
Battle for Haditha
Battle in Seattle
Be Kind Rewind
Before I Forget
Blindness
Boy A
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brideshead Revisited
Burn After Reading
Cadillac Records
Changeling
Che
Chicago 10
Choke
Chop Shop
A Christmas Tale
The Class
Cloverfield
The Counterfeiters
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Diary of the Dead
Doubt
Eagle Eye
Eden Lake
The Edge of Heaven
Elegy
Encounters at the End of the World
The Escapist
The Fall
Fengming: A Chinese Memoire
Flash of Genius
Flight of the Red Balloon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Frost/Nixoon
Frownland
Frozen River
Funny Games
Ghost Town
The Go-Getter
Gomorrah
Good
Gran Torino
Hancock
Happy-Go-Lucky
Heartbeat Detector
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hunger
I Served the King of England
I’ve Loved You So Long
In Bruges
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
In the City of Sylvia
Iron Man
Jar City
JCVD
Jodhaa Akbar
Katyn
Kenny
The Killing of John Lennon
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
The Last Mistress
Let the Right One In
The Life Before Her Eyes
The Lucky Ones
Man on Wire
Milk
Momma’s Man
Mongol
My Blueberry Nights
My Brother is an Only Child
My Winnipeg
Nights and Weekends
Operation Filmmaker
The Order of Myths
The Orphanage
OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies
Paranoid Park
Pineapple Express
Planet B-Boy
The Pool
Pray the Devil Back
Quantum of Solace
Rachel Getting Married
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
The Reader
Redbelt
Religulous
Reprise
Revanche
Revolutionary Road
RocknRolla
Role Models
Roman de Gare
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
A Secret
The Secret of the Grain
Seven Pounds
Shine a Light
Shotgun Stories
The Signal
Silent Light
Slumdog Millionaire
Snow Angels
Son of Rambow
Sparrow
Speed Racer
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Standard Operating Procedure
Step Brothers
Still Life
Stranded
Stuck
Surfwise
Synecdoche, New York
Taxi to the Dark Side
Tell No One
Tropic Thunder
Trouble the Water
U2 3D
Up the Yangtze
Valkyrie
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
W.
WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir
Wanted
We Own the Night
Wendy and Lucy
What Just Happened
The Wrestler
XXY
Young@Heart
Best of Summary 2008 Critics Top 10 Lists
1 WALL-E
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Dark Knight
4 Rachel Getting Married
5 Milk
6 Man on Wire
7 Happy-Go-Lucky
8 A Christmas Tale
9 Synecdoche, New York
10 Waltz with Bashir
11 The Visitor
12 The Wrestler
13 Wendy and Lucy
14 Let the Right One In
15 Iron Man
16 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
17 Encounters at the End of the World
18 The Class
19 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
20 The Edge of Heaven
21 Still Life
22 Tell No One
