Posts Tagged ‘Ballast’

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 Tell No One
3 Milk
4 The Pool
5 Elegy
6 My Winnipeg
7 Gomorrah
8 Gran Torino
9 U2 3D
10 Slumdog Millionaire
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Laura Emerick
Chicago Sun-Times

1 Wall-E
2 W
3 Revolutionary Road
4 Gran Torino
5 My Winnipeg
6 Milk
7 The Wrestler
8 Frozen River
9 Doubt
10 Che
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Jim Ridley
Nashville Scene

1 The Exiles
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 In the City of Sylvia
4 Let the Right One In
5 Paranoid Park
6 The Order of Myths
7 Synecdoche, NY
8 My Winnipeg
9 The Unforeseen
10 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Gerald Peary
Boston Phoenix

1 The Pool
2 Let the Right One In
3 Milk
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 My Father My Lord
6 Hunger
7 W.
8 Reprise
9 In Bruges
10 My Winnipeg
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Chuck Stephens
Film Comment

1 Ashes of Time Redux
2 Ballast
3 Boarding Gate
4 The Exiles
5 Flight of the Red Balloon
6 Gomorrah
7 In the City of Sylvia
8 Paranoid Park
9 Still Life
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
JonathanRosenbaum.com

1 The Silence Before Bach
2 The Exiles
3 Trouble the Water
4 The Order of Myths
5 Flight of the Red Balloon
6 The Lucky Ones
7 Opera Jawa
8 Momma’s Man
9 Gran Torino
10 The Band’s Visit
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Jenny Halper
Spare Change News

1 I’ve Loved You So Long
2 Nothing but the Truth
3 Frozen River
4 The Visitor
5 Secret Life of Bees
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 The Dark Knight
8 Battle in Seattle
9 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
10 Australia
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Nell Minow
BeliefNet

1 Frost/Nixon
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 Milk
4 Wall-E
5 I’ve Loved You So Long
6 The Visitor
7 Be Kind Rewind
8 Doubt
9 Iron Man
10 Son of Rambow
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Michelle Orange
The Village Voice

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Milk
3 Wendy & Lucy
4 Waltz With Bashir
5 Wall-E
6 Flight of the Red Balloon
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Paranoid Park
9 The Last Mistress
10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Betsy Pickle
Women on Film

1 The Fall
2 Frozen River
3 Milk
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 Wall-E
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Tropic Thunder
8 The Lucky Ones
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 The Visitor

Marjorie Baumgarten | Laura Emerick | Jenny Halper | Nell Minow | Michelle Orange | Gerald Peary | Betsy Pickle | Jim Ridley | Jonathan Rosenbaum | Chuck Stephens

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Saul Austerlitz
Boston Globe

1 The Edge of Heaven
2 Nick & Nora’s
3 The Band’s Visit
4 State Legislature
5 Happy Go Lucky
6 Pineapple Express
7 Flight of the Red Balloon
8 Be Kind Rewind
9 Chop Shop
10 Gomorrah
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Jason Anderson
Eye Weekly

1 Let the Right One In
2 Reprise
3 Man on Wire
4 The Wrestler
5 Still Life
6 Flight of the Red Balloon
7 Wall-E
8 My Winnipeg
9 JCVD
10 Wendy & Lucy
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David Walsh
World Socialist Web Site

1 Waltz with Bashir
2 Happy Go Lucky
3 Battle for Haditha
4 Frozen River
5 The Other Half
6 Boy A
7 Chop Shop
8 Be Kind Rewind
9 Wendy & Lucy
9 It’s a Free World
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David Sterritt

1 Milk
2 Let the Right One In
3 Married Life
4 Standard Operating Procedure
5 Taxi to the Dark Side
6 Still Life
7 The Wrestler
8 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
9 Redbelt
10 The Duchess of Langeais
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Alliance of Women
Film Journalists

1 Frost/Nixon
2 Frozen River
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 Man on Wire
5 Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
6 The Visitor
7 Wall-E
8 Wendy & Lucy
9 The Wrestler
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MaryAnn Johanson
FlickFilosopher.com

1 Wall-E
2 Synecdoche, NY
3 In Bruges
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Cloverfield
6 Burn After Reading
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 The Visitor
9 Revolutionary Road
10 The Dark Knight
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Stephanie Zacharek
Salon

1 Happy Go Lucky
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Ghost Town
4 Cadillac Records
5 The Class
6 The Visitor
7 Before I Forget
8 Trouble the Water
9 The Flight of the Red Balloon
10 Iron Man
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Chuck Wilson

1 Hunger
2 Paranoid Park
3 Wall-E
4 Man on Wire
5 Happy Go Lucky
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Revolutionary Road
8 Diary of the Dead
9 Reprise
10 Let the Right One In
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Andrew Grant
The Auteurs Notebook

1 Synecdoche, NY
2 In the City of Sylvia
3 A Christmas Tale
4 The Secret of the Gain
5 Funky Forest: First Contact
6 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
7 Reprise
8 Paranoid Park
9 I Served the King of England
10 Waltz with Bashir
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Mark Asch
The L Magazine

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Ashes of Time Redux
3 Flight of the Red Balloon
4 In the City of Sylvia
5 Love Songs
6 Mad Detective
7 Reprise
8 Still Life
9 Summer Palace
10 Synecdoche, NY

Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Jason Anderson | Mark Asch | Saul Austerlitz | Andrew Grant | MaryAnn Johanson | David Sterrit | David Walsh | Chuck Wilson | Stephanie Zacharek

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Mike Russell
The Oregonian

1 The Dark Knight
2 Let the Right One In
3 Wall-E
4 Elegy
5 Mongol
6 Jar City
7 Tropic Thunder
8 Spiderwick Chronicles
9 Redbelt
10 Appaloosa
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Cheryl Eddy
SF Bay Guardian

1 Milk
2 The Wrestler
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 Wendy & Lucy
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Dark Knight
7 Viva
8 Frost/Nixon
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Mr. Lonely
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Wilson Morales
Black Voices

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Milk
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 Tell No One
6 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
7 Ballast
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 Gomorrah
10 Let the Right One In
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Bruce Ingram
Sun-Times News Group

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Doubt
3 Man on Wire
4 Iron Man
5 Milk
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 Revolutionary Road
8 Slumdog Millionaire
9 Wall-E
10 The Wrestler
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Joe DeShano
MTV News

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Wall-E
3 The Dark Knight
4 Twilight
5 Changeling
6 Iron Man
7 Mamma Mia
8 Milk
9 Doubt
10 Bolt
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Felipa Solis
Newspaper Tree

1 Doubt
2 The Dark Knight
3 Wall-E
4 Iron Man
5 Milk
6 Frost/Nixon
7 The Wrestler
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 Burn After Reading
10 Adam Resurrected
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Katherine Monk
National Post

1 Wall-E
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 Milk
4 The Visitor
5 In Bruges
6 Man on Wire
7 Wendy & Lucy
8 The Reader
9 I’ve Loved You So Long
10 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Dan Hudak
Australia.to News

1 The Dark Knight
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Milk
4 Snow Angels
5 Revolutionary Road
6 Young at Heart
7 Tell No One
8 Slumdog Millionaire
9 Funny Games
10 Wall-E
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Amy Taubin
Film Comment

1 Che
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Ashes of Time Redux
4 Milk
5 Paranoid Park
6 Ballast
7 Wall-E
8 Happy Go Lucky
9 The Flight of the Red Balloon
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York

1 Silent Light
2 La France
3 Before I Forget
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Wendy & Lucy
6 Momma’s Man
7 Che
8 The Duchess of Langeais
9 Happy Go Lucky
10 The House Bunny

Melissa Anderson | Joe DeShano | Cheryl Eddy | Dan Hudak | Bruce Ingram | Katherine Monk | Wilson Morales | Mike Russell | Felipa Solis | Amy Taubin

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Shawn Levy
The Oregonian

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Happy Go Lucky
3 Synechdoche, NY
4 Rachel Getting Married
5 Stranded
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Tell No One
8 Wendy & Lucy
9 Wall-E
10 Doubt
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Marc Mohan
The Oregonian

1 Young at Heart
2 Let the Right One In
3 The Dark Knight
4 Snow Angels
5 Man on Wire
6 Tropic Thunder
7 Tell No One
8 Iron Man
9 OSS 117: Nest of Spies
10 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
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Peter DeBruge
Variety

1 Wall-E
2 The Wrestler
3 Man on Wire
4 Gomorrah
5 The Order of Myths
6 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
7 Shotgun Stories
8 Hunger
9 The Visitor
10 The Dark Knight
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Richard Brody
The New Yorker

1 Still Life
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Woman on the Beach
4 Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
5 The Other Half
6 Cassandra’s Dream
7 Frownland
8 Gran Torino
9 Paraguayan Hammock
10 Summer Palace
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Sam Adams
Philadelphia City Paper

1 Savage Grace
2 Taxi to the Dark Side
3 Wendy & Lucy
4 Wall-E
5 Blindness
6 The Class
7 The Edge of Heaven
8 Encounters at End of the World
9 Burn After Reading
10 Speed Racer
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Steven Persall
St. Petersburg Times

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Reader
3 The Dark Knight
4 The Wrestler
5 Milk
6 Let the Right One In
7 Rachel Getting Married
7 Happy Go Lucky
9 Frost/Nixon
10 Gonzo
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Manohla Dargis
New York Times

1 Happy Go Lucky
2 Synechdoche, NY
3 Alexandra
4 Flight of the Red Balloon
5 Silent Light
6 Paranoid Park
7 The Dark Knight
8 Encounters at End of the World
9 Still Life
10 Wendy & Lucy
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A.O. Scott
New York Times

1 Wall-E
2 Silent Light
3 Secret of the Grain
4 Man on Wire
5 The Edge of Heaven
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Wendy & Lucy
8 Milk
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Cadillac Records
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Stephen Holden
New York Times

1 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 Wall-E
4 Milk
5 The Last Mistress
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Tell No One
9 Frozen River
10 The Visitor
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Anne Thompson
Variety

1 Wall-E
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Milk
4 Everlasting Moments
5 Happy Go Lucky
6 A Christmas Tale
7 Man on Wire
8 Waltz with Bashir
9 Wendy & Lucy
10 Appaloosa

Sam Adams | Richard Brody | Manohla Dargis | Peter DeBruge | Stephen Holden | Shawn Levy | Marc Mohan | Steven Persall | A.O. Scott | Anne Thompson

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

1 Wall-E
2 Milk
3 The Dark Knight
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Gomorrah
6 Wendy & Lucy
7 Trouble the Watter
8 Happy Go Lucky
9 Man on Wire
10 Tropic Thunder
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David Ansen
Newsweek

1 Let the Right One In
2 Encounters at End of the World
3 Wendy & Lucy
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Man on Wire
6 Silent Light
7 The Wrestler
8 Tropic Thunder
9 Wall-E
9 Waltz with Bashir
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Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

1 The Wrestler
2 The Dark Knight
3 Rachel Getting Married
4 Wall-E
5 Momma’s Man
6 The Edge of Heaven
7 Burn After Reading
8 The Class
9 Milk
10 Tell No One
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Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

1 Wall-E
2 The Class
3 A Christmas Tale
4 Let the Right One In
5 The Flight of the Red Balloon
6 Alexandra
7 Man On Wire
8 Snow Angels
9 Still Life
10 The Dark Knight
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Jennifer Merin
About.com

1 The Class
2 The Fall
3 Happy Go Lucky
4 Milk
5 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
6 The Reader
7 Slumdog Millionaire
8 Standard Operating Procedure
9 The Visitor
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Glenn Kenny
SomeCameRunning

1 The Duchess of Langeaise
2 The Last Mistress
3 Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
4 Romance of Astree & Celedon
5 Synechdoche, NY
6 A Christmas Tale
7 Flight of the Red Ballon
8 Gran Torino
9 The Wrestler
10 Che
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Brian Tallerico
movietretriever.com

1 Wall-E
2 The Dark Knight
3 Milk
4 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Rachel Getting Married
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 The Wrestler
8 The Visitor
9 Let the Right One In
10 Hunger
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Hank Sartin
Time Out Chicago

1 Milk
2 Hunger
3 Che
4 Dear Zachary
5 Happy Go Lucky
6 Wall-E
7 The Order of Myths
8 The Dark Knight
9 Let the Right One In
10 The Witnesses
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African American
Film Critics

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Secret Life of Bees
4 Cadillac Records
6 Miracle at St. Anna
7 Milk
8 Seven Pounds
9 Doubt
10 Iron Man
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Ethan Alter
Giant Magazine

1 Che
2 Synecdoche, NY
3 Speed Racer
4 Wall-E
5 Milk
6 Reprise
7 The Class
8 Up the Yangtze
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 Burn After Reading

African American Film Critics | David Ansen | Ethan Alter | Filmbrain | Owen Gleiberman | Glenn Kenney | Jennifer Merin | Michael Phillips | Hank Sartin | Lisa Schwarzbaum | Brian Tallerico

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Jürgen Fauth
About.com

1 Che
2 A Christmas Tale
3 Speed Racer
4 Man on Wire
5 In Bruges
6 The Edge of Heaven
7 Tell No One
8 Let the Right One Ine
9 The Wrestler
10 Love Songs
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Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out Chicago

1 Che
2 Paranoid Park
3 Hunger
4 Wall-E
5 The Wrestler
6 Flight of the Red Balloon
7 Changeling
8 Burn After Reading
9 A Christmas Tale
10 Silent Light
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Michael Atkinson
IFC.com

1 My Winnipeg
2 Ballast
3 Wendy & Lucy
4 Silent Light
5 Still Life
6 Waltz with Bashir
7 Flight of the Red Balloon
8 The Wrestler
9 Synedoche, NY
10 My Blueberry Nights
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Alison Willmore
IFC.com

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Wendy & Lucy
3 Paranoid Park
4 Happy Go Lucky
5 Silent Light
6 The Order of Myths
7 Frownland
8 Mik
9 Momma’s Man
10 Reprise
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Richard Jameson
MSN Movies

1 The Edge of Heaven
2 A Christmas Tale
3 I’ve Loved You So Long
4 Wendy & Lucy
5 Let the Right One In
6 In Bruges
7 Changeling
8 Wall-E
9 A Girl Cut in Two
10 Tell No One
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Don Kaye
MSN Movies

1 The Dark Knight
2 The Wrestler
3 Dear Zachary
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 Let the Right One In
6 A Christmas Tale
7 Milk
8 The Burrowers
9 Iron Man
10 Synedoche, NY
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Dave McCoy
MSN Movies

1 In Bruges
2 The Wrestler
3 Rachel Getting Married/I’ve Loved You So Long
4 Pineapple Express
5 Wall-E
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Let the Right One In
9 Man on Wire
10 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Kim Morgan
MSN Movies

1 The Wrestler
2 In Bruges
3 Pineapple Express
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 Synechdoche, NY
6 Slumdog Millionaire
7 Standard Operating Procedure
8 The Dark Knight
9 Let the Right One In
10 The Foot Fist Way
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Kathleen Murphy
MSN Movies

1 The Edge of Heaven
2 A Christmas Tale
3 In Bruges
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 Wendy & Lucy
6 Let the Right One In
7 Wall-E
8 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
9 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
10 Towelhead
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Matt Singer
IFC.com

1 My Winnipeg
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 The Dark Knight
4 Wendy & Lucy
5 The Wrestler
6 Milk
7 Let the Right One In
8 Doubt
9 Dear Zachary
10 A Christmas Tale

Michael Atkinson | Jürgen Fauth | Richard Jameson | Don Kaye | Ben Kenigsberg | Dave McCoy | Kim Morgan | Kathleen Murphy | Matt Singer | Alison Willmore

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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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Rex Reed
NY Observer

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Revolutionary Road
3 Rachel Getting Married
4 The Reader
5 Slumdog Millionaire
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Milk
8 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
9 The Visitor
10 Good
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Greg Ellwood
MSN

1 The Dark Knight
2 The Reader
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Wrestler
7 U2 3D
8 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
9 The Wackness
10 Boy A
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Sean Axmaker
MSN Movies

1 A Christmas Tale
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 Milk
4 Wall-E
5 Let the Right One In
6 The Dark Knight
7 The Fall
8 Standard Operating Procedure
9 My Blueberry Nights
10 Rachel Getting Married
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Karina Longworth
Spoutblog

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Synechdoche, NY
3 Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
4 My Winnipeg
5 Woman on the Beach
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 La France
8 Mister Lonely
9 Flight of the Red Ballon
10 Encounters at End of World
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Jim Emerson
MSN Movies

1 Pineapple Express
2 In Bruges
3 Wendy & Lucy
4 The Edge of Heaven
5 A Christmas Tale
6 Let the Right One In
7 Chop Shop
8 Che
9 The Fall
10 Shotgun Stories
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David Fear
MSN Movies

1 Happy Go Lucky
2 Ballast
3 The Secret of the Grain
4 Man on Wire
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 Wall-E
7 Let the Right One In
8 Gomorrah
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 Duchess of Langeais
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Keith Phipps
Onion AV Club

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 Wall-E
3 Wendy and Lucy
4 Che
5 The Dark Knight
6 Milk
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 Reprise
9 Let the Right One In
10 Happy Go Lucky
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Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 The Dark Knight
3 Synechdoche, NY
4 Wall-E
5 Operation Filmmaker
6 Reprise
7 Stuck
8 The Wrestler
9 Happy Go Lucky
10 Milk
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Tasha Robinson
Onion AV Club

1 The Fall
2 Wall-E
3 Man on Wire
4 Redbelt
5 Synechdoche, NY
6 Cloverfield
7 Surfwise
8 The Reader
9 The Edge of Heaven
10 The Pool
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Scott Tobias
Onion AV Club

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 Wall-E
3 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
4 Standard Operating Procudure
5 Paranoid Park
6 Man on Wire
7 Funny Games
8 Wendy & Lucy
9 The Dark Knight
10 Stuck

Sean Axmaker | Greg Ellwood | Jim Emerson | David Fear | Karina Longworth | Keith Phipps | Nathan Rabin | Rex Reed | Tasha Robinson | Scott Tobias |

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David Germain
Associated Press

1 Happy Go Lucky
2 Wall-E
3 Encounter at End of World
4 Slumdog Millionaire
5 Frozen River
6 The Visitor
7 The Wrestler
8 Frost/Nixon
9 The Dark Knight
10 Wendy & Lucy
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Christy Lemire
Associated Press

1 The Wrestler
2 Frost/Nixon
3 Man on Wire
4 Waltz with Bashir
5 Wall-E
6 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Frozen River
8 Milk
9 Paranoid Park
10 Iron Man
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James Rocchi
Cinematical

1 Che
2 The Wrestler
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Milk
5 Reprise
6 Ballast
7 The Dark Knight
8 Man on Wire
9 Funny Games
10 Waltz with Bashir
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Noel Murray
Onion AV Club

1 Wall-E
2 Burn After Reading
3 Synechdoche, NY
4 4 Mos, 3 Wks & 2 Days
5 The Dark Knight
6 Surfwise
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 Paranoid Park
9 Milk
10 My Winnipeg
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Austin Film Critics

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Milk
4 Synechdoche, NY
5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 The Wrestler
7 Wall-E
8 Frost/Nixon
9 Let the Right One In
10 Gran Torino
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Dallas – Ft. Worth
Film Critics

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Milk
3 The Dark Knight
4 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5 The Wrestler
6 The Visitor
7 Frost/Nixon
8 Doubt
9 Wall-E
10 Happy Go Lucky
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Kris Tapley
In Contention

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Bolt
3 Synechdoche, NY
4 Pineapple Express
5 The Dark Knight
6 Hunger
7 The Wrestler
8 Dear Zachary
9 Gomorrah
10 Let the Right One In
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Nathan Lee
WNYC

1 Une Catastrope
2 The Headless Woman
3 I No Longer Hear the Guitar
4 Before I Forget
5 Inside
6 Wall-E
7 Che
8 Mother of Tears
9 Flight of the Red Balloon
10 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 In the City of Sylvia
3 The Witnesses
4 Standard Operating Procedure
5 Summer Palace
6 Encounters at End of World
7 Mukhsin
8 My Father My Lord
9 Let the Right One In
10 Happy Go Lucky
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Nick Schager
Slant Magazine

1 Synechdoche, NY
2 Flight of the Red Balloon
3 Boarding Gate
4 Reprise
5 The Dark Knight
6 Dear Zachary
7 Chris & Don
8 Encounters at End of World
9 The Strangers
10 August Evening

Austin Film Critics | Dallas Ft. Worth Film Critics | David Germain | Ed Gonzalez | Nathan Lee | Christy Lemire | Noel Murray | James Rocchi | Nick Schager | Kris Tapley

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Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun Times

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Dark Knight
3 The Wrestler
4 In Bruges
5 I’ve Loved You So Long
6 Gran Torino
7 Milk
8 The Visitor
9 Forgetting Sarah Marshall
10 Frozen River
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Susan Wloszczyna
USA Today

1 The Visitor
2 The Wrestler
3 Frozen River
4 Let the Right One In
5 I’ve Loved You So Long
6 Tell No One
7 A Christmas Tale
8 Slumdog Millionaire
9 Doubt
10 Man on Wire
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AFI

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 The Dark Knight
3 Frost/Nixon
4 Frozen River
5 Gran Torino
6 Iron Man
7 Milk
8 Wall-E
9 Wendy & Lucy
10 The Wrestler
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SoEastern Film Critics

1 Milk
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Wall-E
4 The Dark Knight
5 The Wrestler
6 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 The Reader
8 The Visitor
9 Frost/Nixon
10 Revolutionary Road
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Milan Paurich
Cleveland Scene

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Wall-E
4 Revolutionary Road
5 Changeling
6 Synechdoche, NY
7 Milk
8 Che
9 Gran Torino
10 Ashes of Time Redux/As Tears Go By/My Blueberry Nights
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Philip French
The Observer

1 Appaloosa
2 Changeling
3 Couscous
4 Diving Bell & the Butterfly
5 The Edge of Heaven
6 Gomorrah
7 In Bruges
8 Man on Wire
9 No Country for Old Men
10 Waltz with Bashir
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Joanna Langfield
The Movie Minute

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 The Reader
3 Doubt
4 The Wrestler
5 Milk
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
8 Wall-E
9 Frost/Nixon
10 I’ve Loved You So Long
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Stephen King
Entertainment Weekly

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Wall-E
4 Tropic Thunder
5 Funny Games
6 The Bank Job
7 Lakeview Terrace
8 The Ruins
9 Redbelt
10 Death Race
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Rebecca Murray
About.com

1 The Dark Knight
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Wall-E
5 The Reader
6 Frost/Nixon
7 In Bruges
8 Milk
9 The Visitor
10 Defiance
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The Guardian Staff

1 No Country for Old Men
2 Man on Wire
3 There Will Be Blood
4 Gomorrah
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 In Bruges
7 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
8 Diving Bell & The Butterfly
9 Hunger
10 Wall-E

AFI | Philip French | Guardian Staff | Steve King | Joanna Langfield | Rebecca Murray | Milan Paurich | Richard Roeper | SouthEastern Film Critics | Susan Wloszczyna

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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

1 Milk
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Dark Knight
4 Frost/Nixon
5 Wall-E
6 Revolutionary Road
7 The Visitor
8 Doubt
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Man on Wire
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Wall-E
3 Milk
4 A Christmas Tale
5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 Iron Man
7 Revolutionary Road
8 The Visitor
9 Synecdoche, NY
10 Waltz With Bashir
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National Board
of Review

1 Burn After Reading
2 Changeling
3 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 The Dark Knight
5 Defiance
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Gran Torino
8 Milk
9 Wall-E
10 The Wrestler
* Slumdog Millionaire
Link to the List

Marshall Fine
Hollywood and Fine

1 Revolutionary Road
2 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3 Wall-E
4 Frost/Nixon
5 The Visitor
6 Doubt
7 Milk
8 The Wrestler
9 Elegy
10 Happy-Go-Lucky
Link to the List

Kyle Smith
New York Post

1 Slumdog Millionaire
2 Man on Wire
3 Seven Pounds
4 The Dark Knight
5 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
6 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8 Doubt
9 Rachel Getting Married
10 Funny Games
Link to the List

Shawn Edwards
Fox-TV

1 The Dark Knight
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 The Visitor
4 Iron Man
5 Miracle at St. Anna
6 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 The Express
8 Twilight
9 Secret Life of Bees
10 Fling
Link to the List

David Edelstein
NY Magazine

1 Rachel Getting Married
2 Wall-E
3 Happy -Go-Lucky
4 Cadillac Records
5 The Class
6 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
7 Waltz with Bashir
8 Shotgun Stories
9 Doubt
10 Trouble the Water
Link to the List

David Denby
New Yorker

1 Defiance
2 Rachel Getting Married
3 The Class
4 The Wrestler
5 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6 Wall-E
7 Milk
8 Trouble the Water
9 Revolutionary Road
10 I’ve Loved You So Long
Link to the List

Richard Corliss
Time Magazine

1 Wall-E
2 Synecdoche, NY
3 My Winnipeg
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
5 Milk
6 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7 Slumdog Millionaire
8 Iron Man
9 Speed Racer
10 Encounters at End of World
Link to the List

Anthony Lane
New Yorker

1 The Orphanage
2 The Edge of Heaven
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4 I’ve Loved You So Long
5 We Own the Night
6 Quantum of Solace
7 Iron Man
8 The Wrestler
9 Changeling
10 Wall-E

Richard Corliss | David Denby | David Edelstein | Shawn Edwards | Marshall Fine | Anthony Lane | Lou Lumenick | Nawtional Board of Review | Kyle Smith | Peter Travers

The Top Ten Chart for January 6, 2009

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Top Ten Lists; 265 Films Listed; 106 Films with one vote; Five films appear on more than 100 lists; Iron Man jumps 10 spots into the Top 20.

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The Top Ten Chart for January 1, 2009

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Top Ten Lists; 236 Films Listed; 89 Films with one vote; Both Wall-E and The Dark Knight are listed 21 times at #1; Wall-E appears on almost 70% of all lists; while Milk appears on more lists, both Dark Knight and Slumdog Millionaire rank higher on the lists they appear on; Wall-E has more than twice the score or list mentions as Benjamin Button at #5.

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The Top Ten Chart for December 29, 2008

Monday, December 29th, 2008

The Top Ten Chart for December 24, 2008

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

The Top Ten Chart for December 22, 2008

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The Top Ten Chart for December 17, 2008

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

The Top Ten Chart for December 15, 2008

Monday, December 15th, 2008