Rex Reed’s Top 10

Venerable and irascible Rex Reed of The New York Observer has chosen his list of 10 Best Films of 2008:

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Rachel Getting Married
4. The Reader
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Frost/Nixon
7. Milk
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
9. The Visitor
10. Good

And, Rex Reed being Rex Reed, he’s compelled to share what he feels are the 10 Worst of the year too, after the cut.

The 10 Worst Films of 2008

1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Burn After Reading
3. Paranoid Park
4. Funny Games
5. August
6. Mamma Mia!
7. Sex and the City
8. Speed Racer
9. Choke
10. Four Christmases
11. Equal year-end thorns, thistles and boos to My Blueberry Nights, Happy-Go-Lucky, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Wackness, Pineapple Express, Australia, Ghost Town and anything with Adam Sandler.

Happy-Go-Lucky tossed in the same salad with Adam Sandler? They don’t call him Vexed Reed for nuthin’. (Or is it just me who calls him that?)