Best of 2008. Top Ten List

2008 seemed to be a much poorer year in film than 2007, but by the end the 10 best movies rival that of last year. I also have to give honourable mentions to 9 movies, the most I ever have. 2007 was still far superior in comedy, but 2008 excelled with a tremendous blockbuster, riveting dramas, brilliant small pictures, and stunning originality. Every movie that ended up on my list is wholly unique, and it's difficult to compare any of them to any previous year's films, let alone with each other. This made it an especially difficult list to make, but ultimately a more rewarding one. The best films of 2008 were...

Honourable Mentions
-in alphabetical order

Chop Shop (Bahrani)

Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog)

The Fall (Tarsem)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller)

Frost/Nixon (Howard)

My Winnipeg (Maddin)

Religulous (Charles)

Slumdog Millionaire (Boyle)

Snow Angels (Green)

Top Ten Films of 2008
-from 10-1, with 1 being best


10. Revolutionary Road (Mendes)



9. Rachel Getting Married (Demme)



8. Milk (Van Sant)



7. Wall-E (Stanton)



6. The Wrestler (Aronofsky)



5. Paranoid Park (Van Sant)



4. Entre Les Murs (Cantet)
Note: Known in North America as "The Class"



3. In Bruges (McDonagh)



2. The Dark Knight (Nolan)


1. Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)