Kenneth Turan published his picks for the Top 10 Movies of 2008 in today's LA Times. Turan typcially just lists his picks alphabetically, but this year gives "Slumdog Millionaire" the #1 slot, and then lists the rest alphabetically.
In giving Slumdog Millionaire the clear #1 position, Turan writes
I'm naming it No. 1 because of the effect it had on me as well as almost everyone I've talked to. Watching it was like seeing an old friend long presumed dead suddenly walking around town as healthy as you please. "Slumdog" is a modern version of an old-fashioned Hollywood-style audience picture, an updated romantic melodrama whose outlines the Warner brothers themselves would have embraced. If you think this kind of thing is easy to do, you haven't been going to the movies lately.
The rest of Turan's list for 2008, with some pairings that are explained in his piece:
- "A Christmas Tale" and "The Class"
- "Frost/Nixon"
- "Frozen River" and "Ballast"
- "Gomorrah" and "Happy Go Lucky"
- "Rachel Getting Married"
- Four Sundance documentaries:"Man on Wire", "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired", "Stranded", and "Trouble the Water"
- "Tell No One"
- "Wall-E"
- "Waltz With Bashir"
Read Turan's full write-up or his picks for top films of 2008
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