Newsweek’s David Ansen with another of this year’s classy-but-useless-for-predicting-Oscar Top 10.
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 World
3. Wendy and Lucy
4. Frost/Nixon
5. Man on Wire How
6. Silent Light
7. The Wrestler
8. Tropic Thunder
9. Wall-e and Waltz With Bashir (tie)
(pet peeve. ok, I’m over the inability of lazy typesetters to use the easily insertable “¬∑” to format the title properly, but there’s really no excuse for a major publication to wreck the acronym WALL¬∑E by making it look like a movie about some sort of IKEA room partition.)