Lou Lumenik of the NY Post, out of the gate. And for the record, past two years – Lou’s lists have had four out of five of the Best Pic nominees – and this year it looks like he’s got at least four, maybe:
LOU’S 10 BEST LIST
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Wall-E
3. Milk
4. A Christmas Tale
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Iron Man
7. Revolutionary Road
8. The Visitor
9. Synecdoche, New York
10. Waltz With Bashir
LOU’S HONORABLE MENTIONS (not ranked)
Frozen River
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Changeling
Happy-Go-Lucky
Man on Wire
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Trouble The Water
Horton Hears a Who!
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Religulous
W
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Married Life
Lou’s previous top tens after the cut.
Atonement
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
Juno
Ratatouille
Zodiac
American Gangster
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Hairspray
There Will Be Blood
And the year before:
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
Letters from Iwo Jima/Flags of Our Fathers
Borat
Babel
Happy Feet
The Illusionist
United 93
The Departed
Volver
And by the way, the best place to catch the collection of Top Tens is Movie City News.