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Books by p. scaruffi:
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Best Movies of 2008 |
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Best of the decade | Best of 2007 | Best of 2009
The following list averages the opinions of my favorite critics plus mine.
Foreign movies show sometimes a year later, so if you can't find a title, check last year's ratings.
Special section: The 2008 Film Festivals
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Ratings for the 2008 season
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MUST SEE...:
7.5 Fatih Akin: Auf der Anderen Seite/ The Edge of Heaven 7.5 Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York 7.4 Darren Aronofsky: The Wrestler 7.3 Aditya Assarat: Wonderful Town 7.3 Ari Folman: Waltz with Bashir  7.2 Ying Liang: Taking Father Home
7.2 Christian Petzold: Yella 7.2 Matteo Garrone: Gomorrah 7.2 Mike Leigh: Happy-Go-Lucky 7.1 Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Uc Maymum/ Three Monkeys 7.1 Paz Encina: Paraguayan Hammock 7.0 David Volach: My Father My Lord 7.0 Bela Tarr: The Man From London
7.0 Laurent Cantet: Entre les Murs/ The Class 7.0 Olivier Assayas: Boarding Gate 7.0 Harmony Korine: Mister Lonely 7.0 Li Yu: Lost in Beijing 7.0 Pere Portabella: The Silence Before Bach 7.0 Michel Gondry: Be Kind Rewind 7.0 Bruce McDonald: The Tracey Fragments 7.0 Gil Kofman: The Memory Thief 7.0 Andrew Stanton: Wall-E 7.0 Ken Jacobs: Razzle Dazzle 7.0 Serge Bozon: La France 7.0 Jacques Nolot: Before i Forget 7.0 Johnnie To: Mad Detective 7.0 Woody Allen: Vicky Cristina Barcelona 7.0 Claude Chabrol: A Girl Cut in Two 7.0 Azazel Jacobs: Momma's Man 7.0 Claude Miller: A Secret |
SO SO...:
6.9 Jonathan Demme: Rachel Getting Married 6.9 Eran Kolirin: The Band's Visit 6.9 Andre Techine`: The Witnesses 6.9 Nadine Labaki: Caramel 6.9 Yoshihiro Nishimura: Tokyo Gore Police 6.8 David Mamet: Redbelt 6.8 Will Ferrell: Semi-Pro 6.8 William Maher: Sleepwalking 6.8 Wang Quan An: Tuya 6.8 Kentaro Otani: Nana 6.8 Chris Eigeman: Turn the River 6.8 Terence Davies: Of Time and the City 6.8 Catherine Breillat: The Last Mistress 6.8 Jay Duplass: Baghead 6.8 Pierre Yameogo: Delwende 6.7 Giuseppe Tornatore: The Unknown Woman 6.7 Chris Kraus: Four Minutes 6.7 Silvio Soldini: Days and Clouds 6.6 Courtney Hunt: Frozen River 6.6 Mitchell Lichtenstein: Teeth 6.5 Laurin Federlein: Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness 6.5 Clark Gregg: Choke
6.5 Sam Garbarski: Irina Palm 6.5 Adam Brooks: Definitely Maybe 6.5 Baltasar Korm kur: Jar City 6.5 Paulo Morelli: City of Men 6.5 H. S. Miller: Anamorph 6.5 Ken Loach: It's a Free World 6.5 Ira Sachs: Married Life 6.5 Roger Donaldson: The Bank Job 6.5 Ronald Bronstein: Frownland 6.5 Jiri Menzel: I Served the King Of England 6.5 Stephen Chow: CJ7 6.5 Kimberly Peirce: Stop Loss 6.5 Tom McCarthy: The Visitor 6.5 Chen Shi-Zheng: Dark Matter 6.5 Noam Murro: Smart People 6.5 Celine Sciamma: Water Lilies 6.5 Shira Geffen: Jellyfish 6.5 Joachim Trier: Reprise 6.5 Steven Soderbergh: Che 6.5 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne: Le Silence de Lorna 6.5 Kornel Mundruczo: Delta 6.5 Lee Chang-dong: Secret Sunshine 6.5 John Stevenson & Mark Osborne: Kung Fu Panda 6.5 Dennis Dugan: You Don't Mess with the Zohan 6.5 Guy Maddin: My Winnipeg 6.5 Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight 6.5 Nicolas Philibert: Back to Normandy 6.5 Jon Knautz: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 6.5 Jeffrey Nachmanoff: Traitor 6.5 Wayne Wang: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 6.5 Peter Sollett: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist 6.5 Santiago Otheguy: La Leon |
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Passable...:
6.4 Philippe Garrel: J'Entends Plus la Guitare 6.4 Joshua-Michael Stern: Swing Vote 6.4 Jessica Yu: Ping Pong Playa 6.4 David Koepp: Ghost Town 6.3 Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: Johnny Mad Dog 6.3 Jose Padilha: Elite Squad 6.0 Christopher Zalla: Sangre de Mi Sangre 6.0 Guy Ritchie: Rocknrolla 6.0 Spike Lee: Miracle at St. Anna
6.0 Neil Burger: The Lucky Ones
6.0 Gregory Hoblit: Untraceable 6.0 Joseph Cedar: Beaufort 6.0 Jieho Lee: The Air I Breathe 6.0 Jeff Lowell: Over Her Dead Body 6.0 Stefan Ruzowitzky: The Counterfeiters 6.0 Paul Andrew Williams: London to Brighton 6.0 Christopher Rowley: Bonneville 6.0 Bharat Nalluri: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 6.0 Roland Emmerich: 10,000 BC Human Civilization - The Prequel 6.0 Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino: Dr Seuss' Horton Hears a Who 6.0 Nicolas Klotz: Heartbeat Detector 6.0 Michael Radford: Flawless 6.0 Daniele Luchetti: My Brother is an Only Child 6.0 Pierre Salvadori: Priceless 6.0 Santosh Sivan: Before the Rains 6.0 Wachowski Brothers: Speed Racer 6.0 Xavier Gens: Frontier(s) 6.0 Anna Biller: Viva 6.0 Steven Conrad: The Promotion 6.0 Anand Tucker: When Did You Last See Your Father 6.0 Martin Hynes: The Go-Getter 6.0 Claude Lelouch: Roman de Gare 6.0 Garth Jennings: Son of Rambow 6.0 Jeremy Podeswa: Fugitive Pieces 6.0 Jon Favreau: Iron Man 6.0 Nicholas Stoller: Forgetting Sarah Marshall 6.0 Oren Jacoby: Constantine's Sword 6.0 Rob Minkoff: The Forbidden Kingdom 6.0 Lucrecia Martel: The Headless Woman 6.0 James Gray: Two Lovers 6.0 Noboru Iguchi: The Machine Girl 6.0 Tom Kalin: Savage Grace 6.0 Night Shyamalan: The Happening 6.0 Carlos Brooks: Quid Pro Quo 6.0 Cecilia Miniucchi: Expired 6.0 Peter Tolan: Finding Amanda 6.0 Peter Berg: Hancock 6.0 Kunal Kohli: Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic 6.0 Jason Freeland: Garden Party 6.0 Karl Skogland: The Stone Angel 6.0 Brad Anderson: Transsiberian 6.0 Kirk DeMicco: Space Chimps 6.0 Julian Jarrold: Brideshead Revisited 6.0 Alex Holdridge: In Search of a Midnight Kiss 6.0 Ben Stiller: Tropic Thunder 6.0 Eric Rohmer: Les Amours d'Astree et de Celadon/ The Romance of Astrea and Celadon 6.0 ANdrew Fleming: Hamlet 2 6.0 Paul Anderson: Death Race 6.0 Alan Hall: Towelhead 6.0 Chris Eska: August Evening 6.0 Andrea Staka: Fr„ulein 6.0 Ed Harris: Appaloosa 6.0 Neil Lebute: Lakeview Terrace 6.0 Raja Gosnell: Beverly Hills Chihuahua 6.0 Ridley Scott: Body of Lies |
YUCK!...:
5.9 Woody Allen: Cassandra's Dream 5.5 Matt Reaves: Cloverfield 5.5 Lucˇa Puenzo: XXY 5.5 Michael McCullers: Baby Mama 5.5 Paul Weiland: Made of Honor 5.5 Mark Waters: The Spiderwick Chronicles 5.5 Laura Dunn: The Unforeseen 5.5 Justin Chadwick: The Other Boleyn Girl 5.5 Mark Palansky: Penelope 5.5 David Gordon Green: Snow Angels 5.5 Raul Inglis: OSS 117 5.5 Joshua Seftel: War, Inc 5.5 Guillermo del Toro: Hellboy II 5.5 Joel/Ethan Coel: Burn After Reading 5.5 Saul Dibb: The Duchess 5.5 Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig: Night and Weekends 5.5 Laurie Lynd: Breakfast With Scot 5.5 Jose-Ivan Santiago: Talento de Barrio 5.0 Doug Pray: Surfwise 5.0 Fernando Meirelles: Blindness 5.0 Stuart Townsend: Battle in Seattle 5.0 Tony Leondis: Igor 5.0 Matthew Bonifacio: Amexicano 5.0 Henry Bean: Noise 5.0 Andy Tennant: Fool's Gold 5.0 Eva Aridjis: The Favor 5.0 Helen Hunt: Then She Found Me 5.0 Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg: Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay 5.0 Vadim Perelman: The Life Before Her Eyes 5.0 Pete Travis: Vintage Point 5.0 Jon Poll: Charlie Bartlett 5.0 Brett Morgen: Chicago 10 5.0 David Swimmer: Run Fat Boy Run 5.0 Gina Kim: Never Forever 5.0 David Ayer: Street Kings 5.0 Andrew Adamson: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 5.0 Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5.0 Roger Spottiswoode: The Children of Huang Shi 5.0 Stuart Gordon: Stuck 5.0 Clint Eastwood: Changeling 5.0 Hong Sang-soo: Bam Gua Nat/ Night and Day 5.0 Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas: Linha de Passe 5.0 Peter Segal: Get Smart 5.0 Marco Schnabel: The Love Guru 5.0 Sarah Gavron: Brick Lane 5.0 Patricia Rozema: Kit Kittredge - An American Girl 5.0 Timur Bekmambetov: Wanted 5.0 Jonathan Levine: The Wackness 5.0 Ric Roman Waugh: Felon 5.0 Phyllida Lloyd: Mamma Mia 5.0 Adam McKay: Step Brothers 5.0 Paul Weiland: Sixty Six 5.0 Randall Miller: Bottle Shock 5.0 Isabel Coixet: Elegy 5.0 Tygve Allister Diesen: Red 5.0 Ben Stassen: Fly Me to the Moon 5.0 David MacKenzie: Mister Foe 5.0 Robert Cary: Save Me 5.0 Darren Jacobs: Humboldt County 5.0 Marc Abraham: Flash of Genius 5.0 Gary Fleder: The Express 5.0 Luke Eberl: Choose Connor 5.0 Alex Kendrick: Fireproof 5.0 Gil Kenan: City of Ember |
GASP!...:
4.9 Bryan Gunnar Cole: Day Zero 4.5 Anne Fletcher: 27 Dresses 4.5 George Wolfe: Nights in Rodanthe
4.5 Marcel Langenegger: Deception 4.5 Martin McDonagh: In Bruges 4.5 Daniel Waters: Sex and Death 101 4.5 Malcolm Lee: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins 4.5 Andrew Jenkins: How to Rob a Bank 4.5 David Ross: The Babysitters 4.0 Tom Vaughan: What Happens in Vegas 4.0 Diane English: The Women 4.0 Callie Khouri: Mad Money 4.0 Larry Bishop: Hell Ride 4.0 Jay Lee: Zombie Strippers 4.0 Jon Avnet: 88 Minutes 4.0 Andy Tennant: Fool's Gold 4.0 Doug Liman: Jumper 4.0 Robert Luketic: 21 4.0 George Clooney: Leatherheads 4.0 Uwe Boll: Postal 4.0 Louis Letterier: The Incredible Hulk 4.0 Eric Brevig: Journey to the Center of the Earth 4.0 Chris Carter: X Files - I Want To Believe 4.0 Sanaa Hamri: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 4.0 Mark Pellington: Henry Poole Is Here 4.0 Peter Cattaneo: The Rocker 4.0 Dave Filoni: Star Wars: The Clone Wars 4.0 Jon Avnet: Righteous Kill 4.0 Robert Weide: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 4.0 Josh Safdie: The Pleasure of Being Robbed 3.5 Michael King: Sex and the City 3.5 Fred Wolf: Strange Wilderness 3.5 David Moreau: The Eye 3.5 Pete Travis: Vantage Point 3.5 The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 3.5 JasonTodd Ipson: Everybody Wants to Be Italian 3.0 Tom Putnam: The Hottie and the Nottie 3.0 Brian Robbins: Meet Dave |
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