Here are some notable Top Ten Lists of 2008 from some of my favorite critics:
Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)
1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Dark Knight
4. Frost/Nixon
5. WALL-E
6. Revolutionary Road
7. The Visitor
8. Doubt
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Man on Wire
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Richard Roeper
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Wrestler
4. In Bruges
5. I’ve Loved You So Long
6. Gran Torino
7. Milk
8. The Visitor
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
10. Frozen River
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Christy Lemire (Associated Press)
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
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Scott Tobias (Onion AV Club)
1. Rachel Getting Married
2. WALL-E
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Standard Operating Procedure
5. Paranoid Park
6. Man on Wire
7. Funny Games
8. Wendy & Lucy
9. The Dark Knight
10. Stuck
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Michael Phillips
1. WALL-E
2. The Class
3. A Christmas Tale
4. Let the Right One In
5. The Flight of the Red Balloon
6. Alexandra
7. Man on Wire
8. Snow Angels
9. Still Life
10. The Dark Knight
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Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly)
1. WALL-E
2. Milk
3. The Dark Knight
4. Waltz with Bashir
5. Gomorrah
6. Wendy & Lucy
7. Trouble with Watter
8. Happy Go Lucky
9. Man on Wire
10. Tropic Thunder
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Owen Gleiberman (EW)
1. The Wrestler
2. The Dark Knight
3. Rachel Getting Married
4. WALL-E
5. Momma’s Man
6. The Edge of Heaven
7. Burn After Reading
8. The Class
9. Milk
10. Tell No One
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A.O. Scott (New York Times)
1. WALL-E
2. Silent Light
3. Secret of the Grain
4. Man on Wire
5. The Edge of Heaven
6. Happy Go Lucky
7. Wendy & Lucy
8. Milk
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. Cadillac Records
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Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
1. Happy Go Lucky
2. A Christmas Tale
3. Ghost Town
4. Cadillac Records
5. The Class
6. The Visitor
7. Before I Forget
8. Trouble the Water
9. The Flight of the Red Balloon
10. Iron Man
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Usually Roger Ebert lists his Top Ten of the year, but this time around he didn’t. Instead, he listed (in no order) his Top 20 films of the year. You can check it out at his website HERE.
I will be posting my Top Ten list of 2008 within the next week. I still have to catch a few movies that I’m sure will make my list.
Posted by Rob Eng 
