Frost/Nixon strikes me as the inevitable undistinguished yet inoffensive filler nominee we always see; as such, it is indestructible.

Even Michael Clayton had a handful of #1's, though.

Senor Stephen King

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20245818,00.html

1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. WALL-E
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Funny Games
6. The Bank Job
7. Lakeview Terrace
8. The Ruins
9. Redbelt
10. Death Race

The Guardian top 10
1 ) No Country for Old Men
2 ) Man On Wire
3) There Will Be Blood
4 ) Gomorrah
5 ) Waltz With Bashir
6 ) In Bruges
7 ) 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
8 ) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9 ) Hunger
10 ) WALL-E

So let's DQ NCFOM, TWBB, 4M3W2D & TDBATB.
1) Man on Wire
2) Gomorrah
3) Waltz with Bashir
4) In Bruges
5) Hunger
6) Wall-E

I thought Redbelt came out last year - - great movie - - gotta add it to my 2008 top ten list too...

Rebecca Murray
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1 The Dark Knight
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Wall-E
5 The Reader
6 Frost/Nixon
7 In Bruges
8 Milk
9 The Visitor
10 Defiance

French magazine Chronic'Art top ten.

1. Two lovers (James Gray)
2. No country for old men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
3. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
4. Redacted (Brian De Palma)
5. L’échange (Clint Eastwood)
6. Tonnerre sous les tropiques (Ben Stiller)
7. Phénomènes (M. Night Shyamalan)
8. A bord du Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
9. De la guerre (Bertrand Bonnello)
10. Speed racer (Andy & Larry Wachowski) / Merde (Léos Carax)

GO WALL-E, GO!!!

The Criticstop10.com's tracking has started:

http://criticstop10.com/


Anyone cares to predict the final Top 10?


I'll go with:

1. The Wrestler
2. WALL-E
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. The Dark Knight
5. Milk
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Man on Wire
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Revolutionary Road
10. Iron Man

Wall-E will stay on top. I'm 100% confident.

This was the site I was asking about earlier! Yay, so pretty and all white.

Hmm, I wonder why he doesn't have '02 and '03 up there anymore? His page design used to be a lot better, too. Still an excellent resource, though.

I'm pretty sure WALL-E will stay on top too. The staple scene and subject matter is bound to turn off some critics from The Wrestler, that's the rules of the game.

Yeah, Wall-E will be No. 1 by the end. The Wrestler's BFCA score and average at RT (although still excellent) indicate to me that it won't have the same passion. It will have around 10-15 100s at MC, like The Queen had.

When was the last time the #1 film did not get a BP nomination?

On Engin's list (I believe this is a different guy), Far from Heaven, Y tu mama Tampien and Adaptation. were the top 3 in 2002, and Ghost World and Mulholland Dr. were the Top 2 in 2001. It's it's far from unheard of.

Since then though, the top film usually gets enough momentum from critics awards (Sideways, BBM, NCFOM) or already had it (The Departed). WALL-E is starting from the ground up with only LAFCA so far, so its closest successful comparison would probably be Lost in Translation (Which actually didn't win any of the major four critics awards), and really needs more associations to show it love.

Even if WALL-E remains #1, I've always said its less about WALL-E earning the 5th spot outright and more about stealing it. You're an CGI film, of which 30% is a silent film. Those are fucked up handicaps.

Whether WALL-E takes it from The Wrestler, Revo Road, Frost/Nixon, or someone else, it's a race to 5th, that probably won't be decided until the 11th hour.

AP weighs in

Christy Lemire
1. The Wrestler
2. Frost/Nixon
3. Man on Wire
4. Waltz with Bashir
5. Wall-E
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Frozen River
8. Milk
9. Paranoid Park
10. Iron Man

David Germain
1. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Wall-E
3. Encounter at the End of the World
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Frozen River
6. The Visitor
7. The Wrestler
8. Frost/Nixon
9. The Dark Knight
10. Wendy and Lucy

Kris Tapley loses his mind for #2, though I'm loving 4,5, AND 8.

1. “Slumdog Millionaire”
2. “Bolt”
3. “Synecdoche, New York”
4. “Pineapple Express”
5. “The Dark Knight”
6. “Hunger”
7. “The Wrestler”
8. “Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father”
9. “Gomorrah”
10. “Let the Right One In”

LOL, does Kris have a thing for Miley Cyrus?

No but he was trying to make a statement about WALL-E.

What a dumb statement. Who is that guy again?

Kris Tapley at In Contention. He's had big issues with WALL-E since the summer. And don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed Bolt and it could have easily have been a Pixar film with some minor tweaking.

But in no known universe does it deserve to be on a Top 10 list. Moreso, if you're going to put a CGI animated film on your list, I mean, come on.

IndiWire top 10 :

John Anderson (Variety, Newsday, Washington Post)
1 - Let the Right One In
2 - Wall-E
3 - Strandard Operating Procedure
4 - Happy-Go-Lucky
5 - Up the Yangste!
6 - Flight of the Red Balloon
7 - Tell No One
8 - Waltz with Bashir
9 - Operation Filmmaker
10 - My Winnipeg

Melissa Anderson (Time Out New York )
1 - Silent Light
2 - La France
3 - Before I Forget
4 - Waltz With Bashir
5 - Wendy and Lucy
6 - Momma's Man
7 - Che
8 - The Duchess of Langeais
9 - Happy-Go-Lucky
10 - The House Bunny

Dennis Lim (Moving Image Source)
1 - Flight of the Red Balloon
2 - Before I Forget
3 - Still Life
4 - In the City of Sylvia
5 - Paranoid Park
6 - Wendy and Lucy
7 - The Duchess of Langeais
8 - Hunger
9 - My Winnipeg
10 - Milk

Scott Tobias (The A.V. Club)
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

Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running, The Auteurs, indieWIRE)
1 - The Duchess of Langeais
2 - The Last Mistress
3 - Razzle-Dazzle: The Lost World
4 - Synecdoche New York
5 - A Christmas Tale
6 - Flight of the Red Balloon
7 - Gran Torino
8 - Paranoid Park
9 - Che
10 - The Wrestler