AV Club. "The year in film 2008."

"We all agreed that 2007 was a peak year in the new millennium, offering up such instant, diamond-cut masterpieces as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood and Zodiac, among others." This year, the five film reviewers for the AV Club have had a harder time of it; 2008's been a mixed bag, to put it kindly. "Only the #1 choice on the Master List appeared on all five lists, and #2 topped three of the five lists.... To reflect this lack of group-think, we've instituted a new category called 'Outliers' that calls attention to some of the unheralded films that appeared on one list and no others."

So topping the Master List is WALL•E; Outliers and individual ballots follow, featuring categories such as "Most pleasant surprise" and "Future Film That Time Forgot": Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.

Update: The AV Five discuss the year that was.

Posted by dwhudson at December 17, 2008 7:47 AM