1. Big Night
2. Food Inc./Fast Food Nation
3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
4. Soylent Green
5. Ratatouille
1. Babette’s Feast
2. Julie & Julia/Ratatouille
3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
4. Fried Green Tomatoes
5. Scotland, PA
matty
1. Bloodline
2. The Happening
3. The Love Guru
4. Jumper
5. In the Name of the King
ADAM
1. Hounddog
2. The Happening
3. Savage Grace
4. Sex and the City
5. Speed Racer
Overrated
ADAM
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Frost/Nixon
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. The Visitor
5. The Dark Knight
Underrated
MATTY
1. Speed Racer
2. Role Models
ADAM
1. American Teen
2. Che
3. Lakeview Terrace
4. Valkyrie
5. Seven Pounds
discoveries/Surprises
MATTY
1. Rosmarie DeWitt, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
2. Eddie Marsan, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
3. Tarsem Singh, THE FALL
4. Russell Brand, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
ADAM
1. Sally Hawkins, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
2. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
3. Anne Hathaway/Rosemarie DeWitt, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
4. David Harbour, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD and Catinca Untaru, THE FALL
5. Mila Kunis, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
Disappointments
MATTY
1. Miracle at St. Anna
2. W.
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still
4. Burn After Reading
5. Step Brothers
ADAM
1. Standard Operating Procedures
2. Frost/Nixon
3. Burn After Reading
4. Appaloosa
5. Miracle at St. Anna
most annoying performances
MATTY
1. Jude Law and Norah Jones, MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
2. Thandie Newton, W.
3. Amy Adams, DOUBT
4. John Malkovich, THE CHANGELING
ADAM
1. Thandie Newton, W.
2. Mark Wahlberg, THE HAPPENING
3. Supporting cast, GRAN TORINO
4. Brad Pitt, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
5. Emile Hirsch, SPEED RACER / MILK
best date movies
MATTY
1. Tell No One
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
4. Happy-Go-Luck
ADAM
1. Wall-E
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. Young@Heart
5. The Band’s Visit
worst date movies
MATTY
1. Funny Games
2. Lakeview Terrace
3. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
ADAM
1. Hunger
2. Funny Games
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. Savage Grace
5. Revolutionary Road
best male frontal nudity
JOINT PICKS
1. Jason Segel, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
2. David Kross, THE READER
3. Michael Fassbender, HUNGER
matty
#5: Transformers
#4: Fracture
#3: Goya’s Ghosts
#2: Across the Universe
#1: Smokin’ Aces
ADAM
#4: Transformers
#3: Year of the Dog
#2: Pirates of the Caribbean 3
#1: Hounddog
MATTY
#3: Black Snake Moan
#2: The Host
#1: Savages
ADAM
#5: Sweeney Todd
#4: Ratatouille
#3: Michael Clayton
#2: The Host
#1: The Savages
Underrated
MATTY
#4: Color Me Kubrick
#3: The Hoax
#2: Breach
#1: The Italian
ADAM
#5: Shoot ‘Em Up
#4: The Mist
#3: Youth Without Youth
#2: Sunshine
#1: Black Snake Moan
discoveries/Surprises
MATTY
Sarah Polley, AWAY FROM HER
Michael Moore, SICKO
Susanne Bier, AFTER THE WEDDING
Diablo Cody, JUNO
Shane Meadows, THIS IS ENGLAND
ADAM
Marie-Josée Croze, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Amy Ryan, GONE BABY GONE
J.C. Fresnadillo, 28 WEEKS LATER
Andrew Wagner, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Cristian Mungiu, 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
Shane Meadows, THIS IS ENGLAND
Irrfan Khan, THE NAMESAKE
Gordon Pinset, AWAY FROM HER
Disappointments
MATTY
#4: Music and Lyrics
#3: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
#2: Bee Movie
#1: The Darjeeling Limited
ADAM
#5: American Gangster
#4: Redacted
#3: Fracture
#2: Across the Universe
#1: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
BEst documentaries
MATTY
#5: In the Shadow of the Moon
#4: An Unreasonable Man
#3: Air Guitar Nation
#2: Lake of Fire
#1: The King of Kong
ADAM
#5: My Kid Could Paint That
#4: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
#3: Sicko/No End in Sight
#2: Lake of Fire
#1: The King of Kong
most annoying performances
MATTY
#4: Jonah Hill, WALK HARD
#3: Topher Grace, SPIDER-MAN 3
#2: John Travolta, HAIRSPRAY
#1: The entire cast of SOUTHLAND TALES
ADAM
#5: Roger Bart, AMERICAN GANGSTER
Jordan Ladd, DEATH PROOF
#4: Jake Gyllenhaal/Reese Witherspoon, RENDITION
#3: Laura Linney, THE SAVAGES
#2: Ethan Hawke, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
#1: Joaquin Phoenix, WE OWN THE NIGHT
best date movies
MATTY
#5: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
#4: Starter for 10
#3: Jane Austen Book Club
#2: Once
#1: Dan in Real Life
ADAM
#5: Stardust
#4: Waitress
#3: Juno
#2: Atonement
#1: Once
worst date movies
MATTY
#5: Margot at the Wedding
#4: Crazy Love
#3: 2 Days in Paris
#2: After the Wedding
#1: 300
ADAM
#5: 300
#4: Rescue Dawn
#3: Lust, Caution
#2: Margot at the Wedding
#1: I Shoot ‘Em Up
best male frontal nudity
JOINT PICKS
#4: Some guy — WALK HARD
#3: Jean-Louis Coullo’ch — LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
#2: Viggo Mortensen — EASTERN PROMISES
#1: Bart Simpson — THE SIMPSONS MOVIE
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Atonement
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Zodiac
5. Juno
6. There Will Be Blood
7. Once
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Death Proof
10. The King of Kong
1. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Juno
4. This Is England
5. After the Wedding
6. The Lives of Others
7. Once
8. Into the Wild
9. The Namesake
10. The King of Kong
1. Once
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Ratatouille
5. There Will Be Blood
6. No End in Sight
7. Margot at the Wedding
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. The Assassination of Jesse James...
10. Knocked Up
Sam Van Hallgren
Rescue Dawn
Matt Singer, IFC News
No Country for Old Men
Steve Prokopy, Ain't It Cool News
No Country for Old Men
Rian Johnson, "Brick" Writer/Director
The Assassination of Jesse James...
1. Elliot Page — JUNO
Frank Lengella — STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
2. Kurt Russell — DEATH PROOF
Marie Josée Croze — DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
3. Irrfan Khan — THE NAMESAKE
Tabu — THE NAMESAKE
4. Hal Holbrook — INTO THE WILD
Amy Ryan — GONE BABY GONE
5. Ben Foster — 3:10 TO YUMA
Lauren Ambrose — STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
1. Elliot Page — JUNO
Gorden Pinset — AWAY FROM HER
2. Tang Wei — LUST, CAUTION
Rolf Lassgård — AFTER THE WEDDING
3. Julie Christie — AWAY FROM HER
Richard Gere — THE HOAX
4. Sidse Babett Knudsen — AFTER THE WEDDING
Ulrich Mühe — THE LIVES OF OTHERS
5. Nikki Blonsky — HAIRSPRAY
Honorable Mention:
Pierce Brosnan — SERAPHIM
1. Javier Bardem — NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Cate Blanchett — I’M NOT THERE
2. Kurt Russell — DEATH PROOF
Marie Josée Croze — DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
3. Irrfan Khan — THE NAMESAKE
Tabu — THE NAMESAKE
4. Hal Holbrook — INTO THE WILD
Amy Ryan — GONE BABY GONE
5. Ben Foster — 3:10 TO YUMA
Lauren Ambrose — STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
1. Javier Bardem — NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Cate Blanchett — I’M NOT THERE
2. J.K. Simmons — JUNO
Allison Janney — JUNO
3. Toby Kebbell — CONTROL
Samantha Morton — CONTROL
4. Garret Dillahunt and Paul Schneider — ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
Charlotte Gainsborough — I’M NOT THERE
5. Gene Jones — NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Jill Quigg — GONE BABY GONE
1. Rio Bravo (Two-Disc)
2. Days of Heaven — Criterion
3. Death Proof — Extended and Unrated
4. Knocked Up — Extended and Unrated
5. Shortbus (Unrated Edition)
1. SNL: Season Two
2. Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition
3. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
4. Under the Volcano — Criterion
5. Caligula: Imperial Edition
1. Twin Peaks: Gold Box Edition
2. Viva Pedro — Almodovar Collection
3. Stanley Kubrick — Warner Directors Series
4. Sergio Leone Anthology
5. Blade Runner: The Final Cut
1. Terminator 1/T2
2. Donnie Darko
3. Primer
4. The Final Countdown/Peggy Sue Got Married
5. Planet of the Apes (‘86)
1. Terminator 2
2. Back to the Future
3. Time Bandits
4. Time After Time
5. The Final Countdown