A few prominent critics have weighed in their picks for the year's best movies.
Ebert elected not to rank them this year, so here they are placed in alphabetical order:
His former reviewing partner, Richard Roeper published his top 25 list, as well as an assortment of other categories (full article here). What I like is that Forgetting Sarah Marshall made it to his number 9 choice, so he gains lots of respect for that move. The rest of the list is as follows:
Finally, Richard Corliss of Time Magazine has his top ten of the year, and somehow, Speed Racer made it to 9... questionable... :
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It's interesting to note that the movies that made it to all three lists include Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and Milk... maybe an early Oscar indicator. It's too bad that animated movies aren't considered in the best picture category because Wall-E would be a shoe in. However, I think it's pretty much guaranteed a win in the animated category.
Ebert elected not to rank them this year, so here they are placed in alphabetical order:
- Ballast
- The Band’s Visit
- Che
- Chop Shop
- The Dark Knight
- Doubt
- The Fall
- Frost/Nixon
- Frozen River
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Iron Man
- Milk
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- Shotgun Stories
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Synecdoche, New York
- W
- WALL-E
His former reviewing partner, Richard Roeper published his top 25 list, as well as an assortment of other categories (full article here). What I like is that Forgetting Sarah Marshall made it to his number 9 choice, so he gains lots of respect for that move. The rest of the list is as follows:
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Dark Knight
- The Wrestler
- In Bruges
- I've Loved You So Long
- Gran Torino
- Milk
- The Visitor
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Frozen River
- Doubt
- Snow Angels
- Frost/Nixon
- The Reader
- Seven Pounds
- Iron Man
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- W.
- Henry Poole Is Here
- Burn After Reading
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- WALL-E
- The Bank Job
- Tropic Thunder
- Che
Finally, Richard Corliss of Time Magazine has his top ten of the year, and somehow, Speed Racer made it to 9... questionable... :
- WALL-E
- Synecdoche, New York
- My Winnipeg
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
- Milk
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Iron Man
- Speed Racer
- Encounters At The End of the World
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It's interesting to note that the movies that made it to all three lists include Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and Milk... maybe an early Oscar indicator. It's too bad that animated movies aren't considered in the best picture category because Wall-E would be a shoe in. However, I think it's pretty much guaranteed a win in the animated category.
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Actually, animated films are allowed to compete in the Best Picture category at The Oscars (although they traditionally haven't) and Pixar *is* pushing for a Best Pic nom. All signs so far point to WALL-E getting the nomination even if it doesn't win, otherwise it will be the biggest snub in Oscar history, and The Academy knows it.