BEST FILMS OF 2008
by Mike Lorefice
Appaloosa
Ed Harris
***
...Around
David Spaltro
***
Assassination of a High School President
Brett Simon
***
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Uli Edel
***
The Beaches of Agnes
Agnes Varda
***
Be Kind Rewind
Michel Gondry
***
Boogie
Radu Muntean
***
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The Burning Plain
Guillermo Arriaga
***
Cherry Blossoms
Dorris Dorrie
***
Elegy
Isabel Coixet
***1/2
Frozen River
Courtney Hunt
***
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
***1/2
Home
Ursula Meier
***
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
***1/2
It Might Get Loud
Davis Guggenheim
***
Julia
Erick Zonca
***
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson
***1/2
Lorna's Silence
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
***1/2
Man on Wire
James Marsh
***
Of Time and the City
Terence Davies
***1/2
Quiet Chaos
Antonello Grimaldi
***
The Reader
Stephen Daldry
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Redbelt
David Mamet
***1/2
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Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris
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Still Walking
Hirokazu Koreeda
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The Strangers
Bryan Bertino
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Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman
****
Tokyo Sonata
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
***1/2
Tulpan
Sergey Dvortsevoy
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Vicky Christina Barcelona
Woody Allen
***
Villa Amalia
Benoit Jacquot
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The Wave
Dennis Gansel
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Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt
***1/2
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
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