TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2008

Holy hyperbole, folks. It is time to do the big top ten list. As is customary this time of year, it is my duty (and honor) to present you my list of the Ten Best Films of 2008. And in the past year we’ve seen an interesting range of films, have we not? We slowly dredged through the early months of the year, escaping with most of our moviegoing dignity. We were all incredibly excited about the start of the summer movie season, only to be blown away by a Batman movie two months later.

And we’ve been timid through the fall and winter seasons, waiting patiently for a new classic to emerge as the Oscar frontrunner. And though a classic has yet to emerge from the pack, 2008 will be marked in the minds of film lovers as a year of good. A year that saw a lot of really good, but not necessarily great films. This fact alone makes it difficult to compile a list of the ten best, as everything seems to get smashed in together in the “good” pile. Here is my Top 10 Movies of 2008 :