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Dr. Lecter
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 Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists http://criticstop10.com/ Updated! WALL-E is still #1, while The Dark Knight is down to #4, but it is by FAR the most passionately supported film of the year. More than 25% of the lists it appeared on, put it at #1. The Wrestler is pretty high, but the passion isn't that great.
Benjamin Button is actually outside of the Top and doesn't enjoy much passionate support either. I'm quite surprised at Wendy & Lucy, though! And I really really hope that Let the Right One In can break the Top 10.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists While I thought Wendy and Lucy was a good film, I am surprised by how much critics are loving it.
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billybobwashere
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists I'm surprised that Synecdoche is doing so well. Didn't it get like a barely fresh grade over at RT? I thought critics thought it was just okay.
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Tyler
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists It's a pretty divisive film.
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Magic Mike
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Film Comment's Best of 2008
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trixster
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Re: Film Comment's Best of 2008 _________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict. 
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Magic Mike
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Re: Film Comment's Best of 2008 Oops, sorry...
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Magic Mike
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists paranoid android wrote: Film Comment's Best Films of 2008 1. Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt, U.S. 580 2. Flight of the Red Balloon Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan/France 564 3. A Christmas Tale Arnaud Desplechin, France 557 4. Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh, U.K. 538 5. WALL·E Andrew Stanton, U.S. 534 6. Still Life Jia Zhang-ke, Hong Kong/China 521 7. Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant, France/U.S. 465 8. Waltz with Bashir Ari Folman, Israel/France/Germany 424 9. My Winnipeg Guy Maddin, Canada 406 10. Milk Gus Van Sant, U.S. 356 11. Let the Right One In Tomas Alfredson, Sweden 351 12. The Duchess of Langeais Jacques Rivette, France/Italy 335 13. The Class Laurence Cantet, France 334 14. Synecdoche, New York Charlie Kaufman, U.S. 297 15. Hunger Steve McQueen, U.K. 289 16. Silent Light Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Netherlands 286 17. Ballast Lance Hammer, U.S. 283 18. Man on Wire James Marsh, U.K. 282 19. The Exiles Kent Mackenzie, U.S. 257 20. Gomorrah Matteo Garrone, Italy 253 Their top of undistributed films is more intriguing, though. Both lists are very similar to IndieWire's. LinkIt is just great to see WENDY & LUCY at #1.
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xiayun
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists James Berardinelli's Top 10: 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 Roa 9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 10. Frost/Nixon
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists criticstop10 had another update. If history is any indication Wall-E is safe for a nom as from 2004 onwards all of the #1 movies have been nominated.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Looks like no movie will get even close to The Dark Knight's #1-spots.
GO Let the Right One In!! I hope it can keep rising.
Happy-Go-Lucky is really quite a critics' darling, eh?
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Chippy
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Out of the Top 11... F/N has the least #1's. And almost every contender has about 10+ #1's
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Viper Rodgers
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Here is my local critics pics... Forrest Hartman of the Reno Gazette-Journal wrote: 1. Changeling
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Milk
4. Australia
5. The Dark Knight
6. Defiance
7. In Bruges
8. Speed Racer
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
10. Iron Man
Honorable mentions: “The Spiderwick Chronicles,†“WALL-E,†“American Teen,†“Bolt,†“Doubt,†“The Reader,†“Hamlet 2,†“Frost/Nixon,†“Traitor†and “Leatherheads†Definitely more main stream than a bunch of critics, but i feel it is a very solid list all around. Changeling at #1 though? 
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Chippy
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Speed Racer!!!  _________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Speed Racer?  I stopped watching it after 20 minutes. WTF was going on I don't know.
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neo_wolf
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/ar ... -e_1090666It hardly seems that it would be a likely choice for the film critics who write for the alternative press, but Disney/Pixar's WALL-E has been named best film of 2008 in the ninth annual Village Voice-LA Weekly poll of 116 mostly alt-press critics. Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Flight of the Red Balloon came in second, just ahead of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky , whose star, Sally Hawkins, received the best actress award. Sean Penn was voted best actor for Milk , which placed seventh in the voting. Somewhat surprisingly, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , which already boasts several best-picture awards, finished in 20th place, three positions below The Dark Knight, while Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino was left sputtering in 29th place. "Batman didn't prevail, and Clint failed to save the day, but then John McCain didn't win the election," wrote the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman in announcing the winners. "It was WALL-E that touched a chord and fit the national mood. ... The real miracle of WALL-E was that the standard Disney tropes -- adorable critters, rampant sentimentality, asexual eroticism -- were burnt to a crisp and then redeployed as beacons of hope in an almost unbearably bleak vision of a dead world
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snack
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists neo_wolf wrote: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/alternative%20press%20critics%20pick%20wall-e_1090666
It hardly seems that it would be a likely choice for the film critics who write for the alternative press, but Disney/Pixar's WALL-E has been named best film of 2008 in the ninth annual Village Voice-LA Weekly poll of 116 mostly alt-press critics. Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Flight of the Red Balloon came in second, just ahead of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky , whose star, Sally Hawkins, received the best actress award. Sean Penn was voted best actor for Milk , which placed seventh in the voting. Somewhat surprisingly, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire , which already boasts several best-picture awards, finished in 20th place, three positions below The Dark Knight, while Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino was left sputtering in 29th place. "Batman didn't prevail, and Clint failed to save the day, but then John McCain didn't win the election," wrote the Village Voice 's J. Hoberman in announcing the winners. "It was WALL-E that touched a chord and fit the national mood. ... The real miracle of WALL-E was that the standard Disney tropes -- adorable critters, rampant sentimentality, asexual eroticism -- were burnt to a crisp and then redeployed as beacons of hope in an almost unbearably bleak vision of a dead world brilliant stuff.
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Chippy
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Here's another Top 10 chart, with Wall-E still maintaining it's impressive run: http://moviecitynews.com/awards/2009/to ... eboard.htm_________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Leader of the Pack wrote: Here is my local critics pics... Forrest Hartman of the Reno Gazette-Journal wrote: 1. Changeling
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Milk
4. Australia
5. The Dark Knight
6. Defiance
7. In Bruges
8. Speed Racer
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
10. Iron Man
Honorable mentions: “The Spiderwick Chronicles,†“WALL-E,†“American Teen,†“Bolt,†“Doubt,†“The Reader,†“Hamlet 2,†“Frost/Nixon,†“Traitor†and “Leatherheads†Definitely more main stream than a bunch of critics, but i feel it is a very solid list all around. Changeling at #1 though? Wow strange list IMO, Changeling 1? Australia 4? I like both of those movie more than most critics but honestly! and Speed Racer is one of the ten best movies of the year? Again I like it more than many but nuh uh. _________________Mr. R wrote: Malcolm wrote: You seem to think threatening violence against people is perfectly okay because you feel offended by their words, so that's kind of telling in itself. Exactly. If they don't know how to behave, and feel OK offending others, they get their ass kicked, so they'll think next time before opening their rotten mouths.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists One of the lists that matter, Cahiers du cinema's top 10: 1. Redacted, Brian De Palma 2. Colossal Youth, Pedro Costa 3. Cloverfield, Mat Reeves 4. No Country for Old Men, Joel & Ethan Coen 5. Two Lovers, James Gray 6. Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman 7. Dernier maquis, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche 8. Hunger, Steeve McQueen 9. A Short Film About the Indio Nacional, Raya Martin 10. De la guerre, Bertrand Bonello LinkOnly reason why Cloverfield got in must be that it was shot in DV (Cahiers' writers are champions of the format), but still definitely a shocker. Although Redacted was underrated by most critics and viewers, I can't see how it deserves a first place mention. Oh, and it, with a second place holder Colossal Youth, were also shot in DV. Lattest Costa was praised by many (including Rosenbaum, if I remember correctly), so no questions here. Overall, an interesting list.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Brian De Palma's a hack.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Oh Jesus Cahiers.
What's with the French and James Gray? Maybe they thought it said Nicholas Ray.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists hmm...didn't cahiers go out of style like three decades ago?
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists The French in general went out of style three decades ago.
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Re: 2008 Top 10 Lists Cloverfield is brilliant.
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