Best Movies of 1988

Editor: Piero Scaruffi
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The following list averages the opinions of my favorite critics plus mine.

Ratings for the 1988 season

This page is obsolete. Please check this list: Best of the eighties.

8.5 Theodoros Angelopoulos : Topio Stin Omichli/ Landscape In The Mist
7.8 Wim Wenders: Der Himmel uber Berlin/ Wings of Desire (1988)
7.5 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue IV (1988)
7.4 Roman Polanski: Frantic (1988)
7.4 Peter Greenaway: Drowning by Numbers (1988)
7.4 Charles Crichton: A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
7.3 Mike Nichols: Working Girl (1988)
7.3 Robert Zemeckis: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
7.3 Bela Tarr: Karhozat/ Damnation (1988)
7.3 Shohei Imamura: Kuroi Ame/ Black Rain (1988)
7.3 Pedro Almodovar: Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios/ Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
7.2 Jose-Luis Cuerda: Amanece que no es Poco (1988)
7.2 Barry Levinson: Rain Man (1988)
7.2 Aleksandr Sokurov: Dni Zatmenia/ Days of the Eclipse (1988)
7.2 Jonathan Demme: Married to the Mob (1988)
7.2 David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers (1988)
7.2 John Carpenter: They Live (1988)
7.1 Istvan Szabo : Hanussen (1988)
7.1 Aki Kaurismaki: Ariel (1998)
7.0 Vasily Pichul: Malankaya/ Little Vera (1988)
7.0 Toshiharu Ikeda: Evil Dead Trap (1988)
7.0 Tim Burton: Beetlejuice (1988)
7.0 Peter Jackson: Bad Taste (1988)
7.0 Mira Nair: Salaam Bombay (1988)
7.0 Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira (1988)
7.0 John McTiernan: Die Hard (1988)
7.0 John Landis: Coming to America (1988)
7.0 Isao Takahata: Hotaru no Haka/ Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
7.0 Giuseppe Tornatore: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
7.0 Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line (1988)
7.0 Claire Denis: Chocolat (1988)
7.0 Alan Parker: Mississippi Burning (1988)
7.0 Aleksandr Sokurov: Dni Zatmenia/ Days of the Eclipse (1988)
7.0 Manuel DeOliveira: Os Canibais/ The Cannibals (1988)
7.0 Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
7.0 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue X (1988)
7.0 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue VI (1988)
7.0 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue II (1988)
7.0 Aki Kaurismaki: Ariel (1998)
6.9 Alan Rudolph: The Moderns (1988)
6.8 Francis Ford Coppola: Tucker (1988)
6.5 Mike Leigh: High Hopes (1988)
6.5 Martin Scorsese: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
6.5 Nicolas Roeg: Trock 29 (1988)
6.5 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue VII (1988)
6.5 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue IX (1988)
6.5 Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog/ Decalogue I (1988)
Lower-rated films are generally not listed anymore except when people ask the same question a thousand times

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