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1. Let the Right One In Stunning from first shot to last, Tomas Alfredson's mesmerizing Swedish coming of age/love story/horror film redefined the vampire genre.

2. Encounters at the End of the WorldWerner Herzog's breathtaking tour of Antarctica. Funny, poetic, cranky and visionary.

3. Wendy and Lucy Michelle Williams is superb as a struggling girl who loses her dog in Kelly Reichardt's wise, deceptively simple tale.

4. Frost/NixonRon Howard's enthralling screen version of Peter Morgan's play was the rare Hollywood film that delivered the goods.

5. Man on Wire How Philippe Petit pulled off his astonishing wire-walk between the World Trade Center towers. A hugely entertaining doc.

6. Silent LightCarlos Reygadas's miraculous art film about love, adultery, death and resurrection in a Mexican Mennonite community.

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  • Posted By: BigYalie @ 02/22/2009 7:30:51 PM

    David Ansen, an otherwise distinguished film critic, must be suffering from temporary insanity having given his best film of the year award to the Swedish hack horror travesty, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. I walked out of the film after 40 minutes because it was unrelentingly boring, sick, clumsy, and very, very poorly directed. This shows how critics are deeply out of touch with reality,

  • Posted By: jbz7879 @ 02/10/2009 11:02:30 AM

    actually i applaud ansen for not putting slumdog and benjy button here
    they were ludicrously absurd
    thanks david

  • Posted By: dalegribble @ 01/07/2009 12:05:44 AM

    Thank you David Ansen. Let the Right One In WAS the best movie of the year. I seriously recommend this to anybody who hasnt seen it yet.

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