New Yorker Film Critic David Denby Picks the 10 Best Movies of 2008:

New Yorker Film Critic David Denby Picks the 10 Best Movies of 2008:

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NEW YORK, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Defiance: An inspirational story, told with a maximum of physical detail and a minimum of rhetoric, about the three Bielski brothers (including Daniel Craig), who kept twelve hundred Jews alive in the forest during the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia.

Rachel Getting Married: Excruciating to get into, but, once you become accustomed to Ann Hathaway's high-wire performance and the jiggling camera style, very rewarding.

The Class: a smart, cocky teacher in multi-ethnic Paris takes on a class of turbulent ninth-graders, who then come back at him hard. Essential.

The Wrestler: Blood, suffering, and nobility at the lowest rungs of professional wrestling, starring Mickey Rourke.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Woody Allen's take on American girls living abroad in complicated Old Europe; sunshiny, art-loving, melancholy.

Wall-E: Apocalyptic dismay and social satire mixed into one; Pixar's most ambitious animated film yet.

Milk: Buoyant biopic with Sean Penn's body- and soul-transforming performance as the gay-rights leader Harvey Milk in seventies San Francisco.

Trouble The Water: An African-American woman remains in her New Orleans house during Katrina with a portable video camera; first chaos, and then reassertion of personal will.

Revolutionary Road: The ultimate suburban-despair-in-the-fifties movie, from the Richard Yates novel, with Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet fighting at full tilt.

I've Loved You So Long: Not a great film, but a great performance from Kristen Scott-Thomas as a woman who has committed a terrible crime and then returns to French bourgeois society.

Source: The New Yorker Magazine

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