Critics' Top 10 Film Lists for 2008

[The Little Merman]

My list looks like this:

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Milk
3. The Dark Knight
4. WALL-E
5. In Bruges
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Man on Wire
8. Doubt
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Wendy and Lucy

Best of the Rest: Revolutionary Road, Australia, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda

Granted I still haven't seen (most notably) Slumdog, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, The Wrestler or Gran Torino--all of which I plan on in the coming weeks.

[Just Myself]

Close, But No Cigar
Australia
Burn After Reading
Ghost Town
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
Kung Fu Panda
Pineapple Express
Shine A Light
W.

My Top 10 (So Far)

10. Valkyrie
9. Bolt
8. Iron Man
7. Tropic Thunder
6. Frost/Nixon
5. Wall-E
4. Gran Torino
3. The Dark Knight
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (tie)
1. Slumdog Millionaire (tie)

Still To See
Changeling
Defiance
Doubt
Milk
Revolutionary Road
The Wrestler

Cheers,
JM

[Jack]

Haven't seen many films in 2008, but Gran Torino was my favorite. It's portayal of generation and racial gaps is timely and Clint's sendout as Walt is a rousing amalgam of his previous tough-guy roles.

The Dark Knight was much more than what I expected. I appreciated Batman Begins, but The Dark Knight is in another bracket. Heath Ledger's performance, the "escalation" plot, the score, the cinematography, the bat-pod. The most impacting superhero or comic-book movie I've seen.

Wall-E is Pixar's best film since The Incredibles, and features their best characters since the Toy Story films. The animation and sound effects delight, I never noticed the long gaps between dialogue. The humorous but potent take on the human race perhaps makes it Pixar's most relevant movie as of its release.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a standout, but I was distracted by the similarities between it and the screenwriter's other famous live-through-history film, Forest Gump.

Other flicks I enjoyed were the documentary Man on Wire, Yes Man, 21, Valkyrie, and W.

[castleinthesky]

Here's My top 10 List of 2008:

1. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
2. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
3. The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
5. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
6. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
7. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
8. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufmann)
9. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
10. Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)

Didn't See/ could theoretically make top 10:
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Snow Angels (David Gordon Green)
The Fall (Tarsem)
Let the Right One In (Thomas Alfredson)
Defiance (Edward Zwick)

Here's a List of all the 2008 Movies I saw:
Appaloosa
Australia
Blindness
Bolt
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Frost/Nixon
Frozen River
Get Smart
Gran Torino
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The House Bunny
In Bruges
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
Iron Man
Kung Fu Panda
Frozen River
Man on Wire
Miracle at St. Anna
Milk
Quantum of Solace
Paranoid Park
Pineapple Express
Rachel Getting Married
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
The Secret Life of Bees
Slumdog Millionaire
Speed Racer
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
Valkyrie
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
W
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir
The Wrestler
Zach and Miri Make a Porno

[ajmrowland]

10.Incredible Hulk
9.Iron Man
8.Benjamin Button
7.Tropic Thunder
6.Slumdog Millionaire
5.Prince Caspian
4.Dark Knight
3.Kung Fu Panda
2.Wall-E
1.Bolt

This list is subject to change without warning. I tend to choose good ones.