By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

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Peter Martin
Cinematical

1 Let the Right One In
2 Tell No One
3 Man on Wire
4 Wall-E
5 Timecrimes
6 The Pool
7 Encounters at End of the World
8 Burn After Reading
9 Astropia
10 Dance of the Dead
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Erik Davis
Cinematical

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Dark Knight
3 Dear Zachary
4 Burn After Reading
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Wrestler
7 Doubt
8 Tropic Thunder
9 The Living Wake
10 Milk
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Jette Kernion
Cinematical

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 Milk
3 Let the Right One In
4 The Wrestler
5 JCVD
6 Dear Zachary
7 Medicine for Melancholy
8 Standard Operating Procedure
9 Hellboy II
10 Slumdog Millionaire
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Richard von Busack
Cinematical

1 Wall-E
2 The Dark Knight
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 The Fall
5 Revolutionary Road
6 My Winnipeg
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Up the Yangtze
9 Milk
10 Around the Bay
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Pat Graham
Chicago Reader

1 Still Life
2 Of Time and the City
3 There WIll Be Blood
4 Flight of the Red Balloon
5 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
6 The Duchess of Langeais
7 Hellboy II
8 Let the Right One In
9 A Christmas Tale
10 Happy Go Lucky
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Eric D. Snider
Cinematical

1 Wall-E
2 Synecdoche, NY
3 Dear Zachary
4 Son of Rambow
5 The Wrestler
6 Tropic Thunder
7 Young at Heart
8 The Dark Knight
9 Cloverfield
10 Boy A
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Craig Phillips

1 Let the Right One In
2 Edge of Heaven
3 The Wrestler
4 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
5 Hellboy II
6 La France
7 Encounters at End of the World
8 Ballast
9 Wall-E / The Dark Knight
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Yair Raveh
Cinemascopian

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 Wall-E
3 The Dark Knight
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Three Monkeys/Silent Light/The Fall
6 Pineapple Express
7 Paranoid Park
8 Burn After Reading/In Bruges
9 Hunger/Standard Op. Procedure
10 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Chris Vetter
Leader-Telegram

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Changeling
3 Wall-E
4 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
5 The Dark Knight
6 Doubt
7 Tropic Thunder
8 Iron Man
9 Traitor
10 Rachel Getting Married
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Boo Allen
Denton Record-Chronicle

1 The Visitor
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 I’ve Loved You So Long
4 Milk
5 Frost/Nixon
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Elegy
8 The Wrestler
9 Che
10 Smart People

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