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FilmWeek Critics' Top Ten Lists For 2008
Andy Klein, film critic
The Dark Knight
Gran Torino
In Bruges
Let the Right One In
My Winnipeg
Roman de Gare
Stuck
Synecdoche, New York
Tropic Thunder
WALL*E
Other films that almost made the list include Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra, The Fall, Happy-Go-Lucky, Iron Man, OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies, Slumdog Millionaire, and Tell No One.
Best documentaries: Hollywood Chinese, Man on Wire, and The Order of Myths.
There are also great pleasures to be found in The Bank Job, Captain Abu Raed, Changeling, A Christmas Tale, The Counterfeiters, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Edge of Heaven, The Foot Fist Way, The Forbidden Kingdom, The Grand, Hancock, Kenny, Live and Become, Milk, Paranoid Park, The Signal, Special, Timecrimes, Transsiberian, Vicky Christina Barcelona, W., Wanted, and War, Inc.
Wade Major, of boxoffice.com and CityBeat:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le mulet) (Opened in New York in 2008, did not play L.A. until 2009)
3. Mongol
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Reader
6. Last Chance Harvey
7. When Did You Last See Your Father?
8. Changeling
9. Boy A
10. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media:
The Edge of Heaven
Winds and Chimes
Hunger
A Secret
The Secret of the Grain
In Bruges
Slumdog Millionaire
Encounters at the End of the World
The Reader
Waltz with Bashir
Claudia Puig of USA Today:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. Frost/Nixon
5. In Bruges
6. The Visitor
7. Man on Wire
8. Wendy and Lucy
9. When Did You Last See Your Father
10. TIE: Roman de Gare and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor:
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Class
The Dark Knight
Encounters at the End of the World
Happy-Go-Lucky
I Served the King of England
Man on Wire
Still Life
Waltz With Bashir
Wendy and Lucy
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