Best Movies of the Year: The Definitive List

My only criterion for being considered a 2008 movie is if it got its first US theatrical release in 2008.

In order:

1. The Wrestler
2. Reprise
3. Man on Wire
4. Gomorra– A drama about the mafia's influence in modern day Italy
5. Encounters at the End of the World
6. Rachel Getting Married
7. Synecdoche, NY – overly ambitious but great nonetheless.
8. Role Models
9. Milk
10. The Visitor-The dude who played Scott Templeton on The Wire's follow-up to The Station Agent.
11. The Dark Knight- Lot of plot holes. Enough said.
12. Slumdog Millionaire- Cheezy and contrived third act dropped it a couple spots.
13. The Foot Fist Way- Made 3 years ago but just hit video this year.
14. Milk
15. Che - Forgot about this gem.
-Forgot about this gem.
Didn't see: Frost/Nixon, Appaloosa, Doubt, Let the Right One In, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, Tell No One

J.C.V.D. hits on reporter

J.C.V.D. interview.

"I really opened myself up in "JCVD." I peeled back the skin of the fruit, cut the pulp and then took that very hard seed. In this film I cut that hard seed, and inside that seed was a kind of liquid cream substance of the man I am, or the woman you are."