
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
***

Redbelt
David Mamet
***1/2
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Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris
***

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
***

Vicky Christina Barcelona
Woody Allen
***

Villa Amalia
Benoit Jacquot
***

The Wave
Dennis Gansel
***

Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt
***1/2

The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
***
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