BEST FILMS OF 2008
by Mike Lorefice

Appaloosa
Ed Harris

***

Be Kind Rewind
Michel Gondry

***

Boogie
Radu Muntean

***
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Elegy
Isabel Coixet

***1/2

Frozen River
Courtney Hunt

***
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh

***1/2

The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow

***1/2

Julia
Erick Zonca

***

Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson

***1/2

Lorna's Silence
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne

***1/2

The Reader
Stephen Daldry

***

Redbelt
David Mamet

***1/2
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Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris

***

Still Walking
Hirokazu Koreeda

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The Strangers
Bryan Bertino

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Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman

****

Tokyo Sonata
Kiyoshi Kurosawa

***1/2

Tulpan
Sergey Dvortsevoy

***

Vicky Christina Barcelona
Woody Allen

***

Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt

***1/2

The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky

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