Movie Ratings & Reviews

Last film added: February 5, 2012. There are currently 1066 films in the database (since 1997).

Show: All Films (1066), New Releases (137), Recent Releases (314), Old Releases (615)
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2008 Releases


Search returned all films from 2008 out of 1066 total rated films.



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MASTERPIECES

1. Waltz with Bashir (2008) 10  
   Stunning. Folman interviews Israeli veterans of the 1982 Lebanon invasion to reconstruct his own memories.
   

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EXCELLENT

2. Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) 9  
   A man ages backwards, with bizarre consequences. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt.
   
3. Dark Knight, The (2008) 9  
   Nolan's nightmarish adaptation of Batman, Joker and Two-Face raises the bar for comic-book movies, again.
   
4. Drunk History - Season 1 (2008) 9  
   Drunk historians try to describe history while Jack Black, Michael Cera and others reenact. Hilarious.
   
5. Encounters at the End of the World (2008) 9  
   Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica and talks to wayward travelers and philosophers on the frontier.
   
6. Fall, The (2008) 9  
   Tarsem Singh, director of The Cell, creates a delightful fantasy based in 1920s Los Angeles.
   
7. Frisky Dingo - Seasons 1 and 2 (2008) 9  
   A supervillain named Killface plans to destroy humanity using the Annihilatrix. Clever and often hilarious.
   
8. Go-Getter, The (2008) 9  
   A great road movie, starting from Eugene, Oregon. Features Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward's music.
   
9. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) 9  
   A fast-moving, entertaining portrait of late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, narrated by Johnny Depp.
   
10. Let the Right One In (2008) 9  
    A dark, dreamlike fairytale about a young Scandinavian vampire that explores a tender childhood friendship.
    
11. Pixar Story, The (2008) 9  
    Documentary about the history of animation, and the origin and successes of Pixar Animation Studios.
    
12. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 9  
    A love story intertwines the slums and gangs of Mumbai with a TV game show.
    
13. Synecdoche, New York (2008) 9  
    Charlie Kaufman blends self-referential existence with a living play inside a New York City warehouse.
    
14. Timecrimes (2008) 9  
    Like Primer, this is a film of time-travel paradoxes, but with more voyeurism and nudity.
    
15. WALL-E (2008) 9  
    Humans have left Earth, but a charming, curious robot is still cleaning up our mess.
    
16. When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008) 9  
    Discovery's compelling six-part series about the race into space, the moon landings, shuttles, and beyond.
    
17. Wrestler, The (2008) 9  
    Professional wrestler Mickey Rourke must retire, but life outside the ring is a dispiriting struggle.
    

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VERY GOOD

18. Ashes of Time Redux (2008) 8  
    Kar-Wai Wong's recut version of the 1994 wuxia epic. A broken-hearted swordsman in the desert.
    
19. Between the Folds (2008) 8  
    PBS documentary about artists and scientists who have devoted their lives to modern origami.
    
20. Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football (2008) 8  
    HBO chronicles the profound effect of the 1960s Civil Rights movement on college football programs.
    
21. Cloverfield (2008) 8  
    It's Godzilla epicness, Blair Witch Project shakiness, and Alien viciousness concealing a Manhattan love story.
    
22. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008) 8  
    Joss Whedon's three-part online musical miniseries. Filmed during the writers' strike, starring Neil Patrick Harris.
    
23. Frost/Nixon (2008) 8  
    A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon.
    
24. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) 8  
    Stunning grotesqueness and visual poetry from Guillermo del Toro. Incredible set design and beautiful effects.
    
25. Iron Man (2008) 8  
    Robert Downey Jr. builds an armored suit and decides to use the technology against evil.
    
26. Milk (2008) 8  
    Van Sant's biography of openly gay politician Harvey Milk. An empathic portrayal by Sean Penn.
    
27. My Blueberry Nights (2008) 8  
    A soul-searching journey across America, starring Norah Jones. Beautifully shot, but Kar-Wai Wong's weakest film.
    
28. Special (2008) 8  
    Michael Rapaport participates in an experimental drug study and becomes sure his superpowers are strengthening.
    
29. Tokyo! (2008) 8  
    A cinematic triptych (transformation, anarchy, rebirth) set in Tokyo. Directed by Gondry, Carax and Bong.
    
30. Tropic Thunder (2008) 8  
    Ben Stiller's big-budget satire of celebrity excess and Hollywood action movies. Downey Jr. is hilarious.
    

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GOOD

31. Appaloosa (2008) 7  
    Satisfying Western by Ed Harris about hired guns. Zellweger's face is a creepy kabuki mask.
    
32. Atom Smashers, The (2008) 7  
    How does life exist? Documentary chronicles the search for the Higgs boson by Fermilab physicists.
    
33. Bernard and Doris (2008) 7  
    An HBO Films picture about tobacco heiress Doris Duke (Sarandon) and her gay butler (Fiennes).
    
34. Black Balloon, The (2008) 7  
    Explores the intense emotions of the family of an Australian teenager and his autistic brother.
    
35. Doubt (2008) 7  
    A nun confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a student. But did he?
    
36. Funny Games (2008) 7  
    An aggressively unpleasant film that tortures the audience for its bloodlust. Both sadistic and pretentious.
    
37. Pineapple Express (2008) 7  
    Stoner Seth Rogen freaks out after witnessing a murder. Pot-joke heavy and also fairly violent.
    
38. Priceless (2008) 7  
    Young gold digger Audrey Tautou mistakenly woos a mild-mannered bartender thinking he's a wealthy suitor.
    
39. Reader, The (2008) 7  
    Kate Winslet initiates a surprising, secretive romance in this solemn drama set in post-WWII Germany.
    

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FAIR

40. 4th Dimension, The (2008) 6  
    Feels inspired by Eraserhead and Pi, but this Aphex Twin-scored meditation on reality ultimately disappoints.
    
41. Bolt (2008) 6  
    A lovable cartoon dog movie. Plus, Miley Cyrus sounds like she drinks whiskey every night.
    
42. Choke (2008) 6  
    Screen adaptation of the Palahniuk novel about a sex-addicted scam artist and his hospitalized mother.
    
43. City of Ember (2008) 6  
    An underground city is falling apart after 200 years. Fairly dark for a kids' movie.
    
44. Get Smart (2008) 6  
    Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway are super-secret spies or whatever. Can their gadgets defeat KAOS?
    
45. Incredible Hulk, The (2008) 6  
    Too bad the awkward computer-generated creatures killed the movie, despite Edward Norton. Noisy and boring.
    
46. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 6  
    Indy battles the Soviets in 1957. Spielberg/Lucas feature Area 51 and interdimensional cosmic Mayan nonsense.
    
47. Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008) 6  
    Irritating modern opera rehearsals dominate the story of Oppenheimer and the 1945 Trinity atomic test.
    

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ADEQUATE

48. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) 5  
    Brendan Fraser travels to Iceland looking for Verne's lost subterranean world. Turn off your brain.
    
49. Ruins, The (2008) 5  
    Bone-crunching gore as American tourists learn the horrors of sightseeing in the forbidding Mexican jungle.
    
50. Speed Racer (2008) 5  
    A hyperfrenetic explosion of sound and color in the form of Car-Fu. It's marginally watchable.
    
51. Spirit, The (2008) 5  
    Frank Miller's self-aware film noir is gorgeous, vapid, overacted and emotionless. Based on Eisner's comics.
    
52. Step Brothers (2008) 5  
    Mildly amusing but so stupid. Juvenile bickering and pouting from 40-year-old adolescents Ferrell and Reilly.
    
53. Stuck (2008) 5  
    The callous aftermath of a hit-and-run. I winced at the bad acting and grisly suffering.
    
54. What Just Happened (2008) 5  
    Two weeks in the life of big-time Hollywood producer Robert De Niro. Anxious, high-stakes triviality.
    

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FROM BAD TO WORSE

(NO!  MY EYES!  MY EYES!)

55. 10,000 BC (2008) CRAP  
    Anti-visionary Roland Emmerich directs this dumb prehistoric epic. It's dull, preposterous and sanitized for kids.
    
56. 88 Minutes (2008) CRAP  
    Features ludicrous, unthrilling plot twists, perky young women and the famous forensic psychiatrist Al Pacino.
    
57. Meet the Spartans (2008) CRAP  
    Friedberg and Seltzer reinforce their status as truly unparalleled hacks of the spoof genre. Terrible.
    

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Statistical ratings distribution of these 57 films (5.3% of total rated films):
With enough films included, it usually approximates a bell curve with a mean near 6.5...
(especially when considering that CRAP is 0-4 combined).
Average rating for these 57 films: 7.2.



10:

1.8%




9:

28.1%




8:

22.8%




7:

15.8%




6:

14%




5:

12.3%




CRAP:

5.3%