EW. "Best & Worst of 2008."

"Years from now - yea, unto eternity - all who love movies will rank WALL•E among the medium's most profound, subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeously inventive specimens, ever," writes Lisa Schwarzbaum of the film she's put at in the #1 slot in her top ten for Entertainment Weekly's "Best & Worst of 2008" special double issue. Her worst, by the way: The Women.

Owen Glieberman goes for The Wrestler. Darren Aronofsky "strikes a chord of noble-loser heartbreak as surely as the heroes of On the Waterfront or Rocky did." His worst: Speed Racer.

I don't think I've noted yet, though many others have, that Stephen King's put together a pretty ecclectic top ten. His #1: The Dark Knight.

In the "Legacies '08" section: Mel Gibson remembers Heath Ledger, Martin Scorsese on Paul Newman, Rick Moody on David Foster Wallace, Robert Redford on Sydney Pollack, Bob Newhart on Suzanne Pleshette, Brian Williams on Tim Russert, Nigel Lythgoe on Cyd Charisse, Val Kilmer on Charlton Heston, Gene Hackman on Roy Scheider, Bill Maher on George Carlin, Robert "RZA" Diggs on Isaac Hayes, Jude Law on Anthony Minghella, Stephen King on Michael Crichton, Bea Arthur on Estelle Getty, Carol Burnett on Harvey Korman, Pete Townsend on Bo Diddley, Rainn Wilson on Gary Gygax, Joe Haldeman on Arthur C Clarke and Tim Gunn on Yves Saint-Laurent.

Ken Tucker ranks the movie DVDs (#1: The Films of Budd Boetticher) and TV DVDs (#1: Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog). His best TV show: The Colbert Report.

Adam Markovitz lists the "Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008" - #1: the cast of Sex and the City - yikes.

The quotes of the year are quick fun, and there's video to go with all of this - which I've spotted via Lane Brown's entry at Vulture, where he notes that the magazine has finally tweaked its parent company's nose for pulling that nasty surprise this summer: moving Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to next summer the day before EW's fall preview issue came out with Daniel Radcliffe on the cover.

Posted by dwhudson at December 22, 2008 11:17 AM