2008 Top Ten List
Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
Julia (Erick Zonca)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
Home (Ursula Meier)
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Additional 2008 Films By Rating
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
Little Soldier (Annette K. Olesen)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Red Cliff (John Woo)
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
American Son (Neil Abramson)
Secrecy (Peter Galison & Robb Moss)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
My Dear Enemy (Lee Yoon-ki)
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Marina Zenovich)
Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
Just Anybody (Jacques Doillon)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Kung Fu Panda (John Stevenson & Mark Osborne)
The Rest of the Night (Francesco Munzi)
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (Anders Østergaard)
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
Shirin (Abbas Kiarostami)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Somers Town (Shane Meadows)
BirdWatchers (Marco Bechis)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
Pontypool (Bruce McDonald)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (Peter Greenaway)
Lakeview Terrace (Neil LaBute)
The Window (Carlos Sorin)
I'm Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
The Class (Laurent Cantet)
Birdsong (Albert Serra)
Role Models (David Wain)
Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin & Carl Deal)
Food Inc. (Robert Kenner)
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino)
Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Chocolate (Prachya Pinkaew)
Slingshot Hip Hop (Jackie Reem Salloum)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater)
Lake Tahoe (Fernando Eimbcke)
Edison & Leo (Neil Burns)
CJ7 (Stephen Chow)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Ballast (Lance Hammer)
Around the Bay (Alejandro Adams)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
24 City (Jia Zhangke)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
What Just Happened (Barry Levinson)
When It Was Blue (Jennifer Reeves)
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
The Good, the Bad, The Weird (Kim Jee-woon)
Ip Man (Yip Wai-shun)
Tokyo! (Michel Gondry/Leos Carax/Bong Joon Ho)
Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
Bolt (Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)
Sugar (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)
Lion's Den (Pablo Trapero)
Snow (Aida Begic)
Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
The Wave (Dennis Gansel)
Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese)
Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Let It Rain (Agnès Jaoui)
If You Could Say It in Words (Nicholas Gray)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Barnz)
One Day You'll Understand (Amos Gitai)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
Dear Zachary, a letter to a son about his father (Kurt Kuenne)
The Promotion (Steven Conrad)
Nothing but the Truth (Rod Lurie)
A Week Alone (Celina Murga)
Our Beloved Month of August (Miguel Gomes)
Ghost Town (David Koepp)
Bigger Stronger Faster* (*The Side Effects of Being American) (Christopher Bell)
Milk (Gus Van Sant)
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri)
Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi)
Adam Resurrected (Paul Schrader)
American Teen (Nanette Burstein)
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson)
Speed Racer (The Wachowski Brothers)
Body of Lies (Ridley Scott)
Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
Redbelt (David Mamet)
Pretty Bird (Paul Schneider)
Los bastardos (Amat Escalante)
Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin)
Easy Virtue (Stephan Elliott)
Che (Steven Soderbergh)
It's Not Me, I Swear! (Philippe Falardeau)
My Effortless Brilliance (Lynn Shelton)
The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier)
Ghost Town (Zhao Dayong)
Yes Man (Peyton Reed)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro)
Linha de passe (Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas)
Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Ong Bak 2 (Tony Jaa & Panna Rittikrai)
W. (Oliver Stone)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
Il divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
Deadgirl (Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel)
Stop-Loss (Kimberly Peirce)
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett)
Sunshine Cleaning (Christine Jeffs)
Troubled Water (Erik Poppe)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg)
Shiva (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz)
Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel)
A l'Aventure (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Step Brothers (Adam McKay)
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim)
Serbis (Brillante Ma. Mendoza, DGPI)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman)
Religulous (Larry Charles)
Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
Four Nights With Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski)
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Chris Carter)
My Magic (Eric Khoo)
The Express (Gary Fleder)
Delta (Kornél Mundruczó)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (Morgan Spurlock)
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
Bullet in the Head (Jaime Rosales)
Australia (Baz Luhrmann)
Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
Dream (Kim Ki-duk)
Jumper (Doug Liman)
The Northern Land (João Botelho)