Monday, October 13, 2008

BEST OF 2008

Tarsem’s THE FALL (****)
Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT (****)
David Gordon Green’s SNOW ANGELS (****)
Andrew Stanton’s WALL*E (****)
Stephen Walker’s YOUNG @ HEART (****)
David Gordon Green’s PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (****)
Martin McDonagh’s IN BRUGES (****)
Ben Stiller’s TROPIC THUNDER (****)
Joel & Ethan Coen’s BURN AFTER READING (****)
Matt Reeves’ CLOVERFIELD (****)

Roger Donaldson’s THE BANK JOB (****)
Martin Scorsese’s SHINE A LIGHT (****)
Kimberly Peirce’s STOP-LOSS (****)
Tom McCarthy’s THE VISITOR (****)
Jay Roach’s RECOUNT (****)
Chris Bell’s BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER (****)
Ridley Scott’s BODY OF LIES (***1/2)
Peter Berg’s HANCOCK (***1/2)
Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES & THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (***1/2)
Timur Bekmembatov’s WANTED (***1/2)

Jon Favreau’s IRON MAN (***1/2)
Adam Brooks’ DEFINITELY, MAYBE (***1/2)
Woody Allen’s CASSANDRA’S DREAM (***1/2)
D.J. Caruso’s EAGLE EYE (***)
Bharart Nalluri’s MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (***)
David Mamet’s REDBELT (***)
Louis Letterier’s THE INCREDIBLE HULK (***)
Michael Patrick King’s SEX AND THE CITY (***)
Olivier Assayas’ BOARDING GATE (***)
Nick Stoller’s FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (***)

Hammer & Tongs’ SON OF RAMBOW (***)
Anne Fletcher’s 27 DRESSES (***)
Zak Penn’s THE GRAND (***)
Sly Stallone’s RAMBO (**1/2)
Mitchell Lichenstein’s TEETH (**1/2)
Doug Liman’s JUMPER (**)
Kent Alterman’s SEMI-PRO (**)
Pete Travis’ VANTAGE POINT (**)
Peter Segal’s GET SMART (*1/2)
M. Night Shymalan’s THE HAPPENING (ZERO)

2 comments:

Wayne said...

Wow, this is turning out to be my least productive year as a moviegoer in at least a decade.

Actionman said...

Yeah, compared to other years (last year in particular), this year has been soft. But I have still found many great films and many entertaining ones.