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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

Sundance (jan):
Courtney Hunt: Frozen River


Berlin (feb):
Mike Leigh: Happy-Go-Lucky Jose Padilha: Tropa de Elite/ Elite Troupe
Cannes (may):
Ari Folman: Waltz with Bashir
Matteo Garrone: Gomorrah
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Uc Maymum/ Three Monkeys
Laurent Cantet: Entre les Murs/ The Class
Venezia (aug):
Director: Title
New York (oct):
Director: Title

Toronto (sep):
Director: Title

Ratings for the 2008 season

MUST SEE...:

7.5 Fatih Akin: The Edge of Heaven
7.5 Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche, New York
7.3 Ari Folman: Waltz with Bashir
7.2 Christian Petzold: Yella
7.2 Matteo Garrone: Gomorrah
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 Laurent Cantet: Entre les Murs/ The Class
7.0 Olivier Assayas: Boarding Gate
7.0 Harmony Korine: Mister Lonely
7.0 Gregory Hoblit: Untraceable
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
SO SO...:

6.9 Eran Kolirin: The Band's Visit
6.9 Andre Techine`: The Witnesses
6.9 Nadine Labaki: Caramel
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
6.7 Giuseppe Tornatore: The Unknown Woman
6.7 Chris Kraus: Four Minutes
6.6 Mitchell Lichtenstein: Teeth
6.5 Laurin Federlein: Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
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 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
Passable...:

6.4 Philippe Garrel: J'Entends Plus la Guitare
6.3 Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: Johnny Mad Dog
6.0 Christopher Zalla: Sangre de Mi Sangre
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
YUCK!...:

5.9 Woody Allen: Cassandra's Dream
5.5 Matt Reaves: Cloverfield
5.5 Luc¡a 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
5.0 Doug Pray: Surfwise
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 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
GASP!...:

4.9 Bryan Gunnar Cole: Day Zero
4.5 Anne Fletcher: 27 Dresses
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 Callie Khouri: Mad Money
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
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
3.0 Tom Putnam: The Hottie and the Nottie

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