Films of the Year 2008

From Film South West Newsletter comes its usual round-up of the top film choices by some of the critics to help you with your selections for your next season.
The Guardian (Jason Solomons)
  1. Couscous
  2. Man On Wire
  3. There Will Be Blood
  4. Gomorrah
  5. My Winnipeg
  6. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
  7. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
  8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
  9. Son of Rambow
  10. Sweeney Todd
The Observer (Philip French - alphabetical)
  • Appaloosa
  • Changeling
  • Couscous
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • The Edge of Heaven
  • Gomorrah
  • In Bruges
  • Man on Wire
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Waltz with Bashir
Time Out (Various critics)
  1. There Will Be Blood
  2. Of Time and the City
  3. WALL-E
  4. My Winnipeg
  5. Flight of the Red Balloon
  6. Memories of Matsuko
  7. You, the Living
  8. Changeling
Venue (Bristol/Bath)
  1. No Country for Old Men
  2. Before the Devil Knows...
  3. The Bank Job
  4. Priceless
  5. The Fall
  6. The Baader Meinhof Complex
  7. Hunger
  8. In Bruges
  9. WALL-E
  10. The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
New Yorker (David Denby)
  1. Defiance
  2. Rachel Getting Married
  3. The Class
  4. The Wrestler
  5. Vicky Christina Barcelona
  6. WALL-E
  7. Milk
  8. Trouble the Water
  9. Revolutionary Road
  10. I’ve Loved You So Long
Film South West (Brian Clay)
  1. No Country for Old Men
  2. Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  3. There Will Be Blood
  4. The Orphanage
  5. In Bruges
  6. Mamma Mia
  7. Man on Wire
  8. Hunger
  9. I’ve Loved You So Long
  10. Dean Spanley
Film South West (Ralph Willett)
  1. There Will Be Blood
  2. I’ve Loved You So Long
  3. Summer Hours
  4. Gone Baby Gone
  5. Appaloosa
Sight & Sound (Various critics)
  • 1. Hunger
  • 2. There Will Be Blood
  • 3. WALL-E
  • 4. Gomorrah
  • 5=. A Christmas Tale
  • 5=. The Class
  • 7. Of Time and the City
  • 8. Happy-Go-Lucky
  • 9=. The Headless Woman
  • 9=. Let the Right One In