Richard Roeper finds a way to mention about 5 dozen movies in his year-end wrap up, with categories as predictable as Performance of the Year:
Meryl Streep and Sean Penn are arguably the most accomplished film actors of their respective generations — and they each added an Oscar-caliber performance to their resumes in 2008.
…and as admittedly sexist as Most Beautiful Newcomer: Freida Pinto (“Slumdog Millionaire”), Olga Kurylenko (“Max Payne,” “Quantum of Solace”) and Odette Yustman (“Cloverfield”).
Roeper demonstrates how a list of 25 is a really waffley way to mock any movie missing out on the Top 10, and flip the silent finger to anything past 25.
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”
(close but no cigar, after the cut)
11. “Doubt”
12. “Snow Angels”
13. “Frost/Nixon”
14. “The Reader”
15. “Seven Pounds”
16. “Iron Man”
17. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
18. “W.”
19. “Henry Poole Is Here”
20. “Burn After Reading”
21. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
22. “WALL-E”
23. “The Bank Job”
24. “Tropic Thunder”
25. “Che”