2008
113 Films (Last Update: 01/04/08)
Film / (Country) / * if not released in theaters/ a # if I've seen it more than once

Ordered by Grade (extremely subject to slight changes), Then Alphabetically
Subject to change...usually by only a plus or minus and sometimes back again.
I'm so indecisive perhaps I should go to thumbs up? thumbs down?
Links go to Reviews / Commentary

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DON'T MISS THEM

A
Rachel Getting Married (US) 2 interviews: Rosemarie DeWitt and Bill Irwin

A-
The Class (France)
Milk (US) 2
Reprise (Norway)
Trouble The Water (US)
Wall•E (US)
The Wrestler (US) 2

B+
Cargo 200 (Russia) *
A Christmas Tale (France)
Elegy (US)
Flight of the Red Balloon (France)
A Girl Cut in Two (France)
Happy-Go-Lucky (UK) read Sally Hawkins Interview
In Bruges (UK)
Kung Fu Panda (US)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Man on Wire (UK)
The Mermaid (Russia) *
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (US)
Wendy & Lucy (US)

RECOMMENDED

B
Australia (AUS)
Bolt (US)
Burn After Reading (US) 2
Burn the Bridges (Mexico) *
Chronic Town (US) *
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (US)
Doubt (US) 2
The Dark Knight (US)
The Fall (US)
Frost/Nixon (US)
Frozen River (US) 2
Hamlet 2 (US)
In Memory of Myself (Italy) *
Iron Man (US)
It's Better if Gabriela Doesn't Die (Mexico) *
Kabluey (US)
The Reader (UK)
Revolutionary Road (US) 2
Roman de Gare (France)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (US/UK)
Savage Grace (US)
Sex & The City: The Movie (US)
Stop-Loss(US)
Tropic Thunder (US)
True Love (US) *
Under the Same Moon (Mexico)
The Visitor (US)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Young @ Heart (UK)

RECOMMENDED W/ RESERVATIONS

B -
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (US) *
Ciao (US)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (US)
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (US)
Karl Rove, I Love You (US) *
Love Songs (France)
Munyurangabo (Rwanda) *
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (US)
Paranoid Park (US)
Quantum of Solace (UK)
Secrecy (US) *
Slumdog Millionaire (UK/India)
Smart People (US)
Transsiberian (US)
Turn the River (US) ~ read: Famke Janssen TFE Interview

TOSS UP

C +
Blindness (US)
Cloverfield (US)
The Duchess (US)
In the City of Sylvia (Spain)
The Incredible Hulk (US)
I've Loved You So Long (France)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day (UK)
Never Back Down (US)
Snow Angels (US)
Speed Racer (US)
Synechdoche New York (US)
Summer Palace (China)
Valkyrie (US)
W. (US)
Were the World Mine (US)

NOT RECOMMENDED

C
27 Dresses (US)
Baby Mama (US)
Brideshead Revisited (UK)
Changeling (US)
Finding Amanda (US)
Four Nights With Anna (Poland)
Gran Torino (US)
Hancock (US)
The Last Mistress (France)
Married Life (US)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
Noise (US)
Sleepwalking (US)
Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story (US) *
Take (US)
Wanted (US)
Yes Man (US)

C-
Afterschool (US)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (UK/US)
Cochochi (Mexico) *
I Could Never Be Your Woman (US) *
Magazine Gap Road (Hong Kong) *
Mamma Mia! (US)
Tony Manero (Chile) *
Twilight (US)
The Women (US)

D+
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (US)
The Life Before Her Eyes (US)
Jumper (US)
This Beautiful City (Canada) *

MAKE IT STOP

D
The Assassination of a High School President (US) *
Deception (US)

D-

F
10,000 BC (US)