New Yorker Film Critic David Denby has named Defiance as his top pick of the 10 Best Movies of 2008.

The complete list of the top 10 best movies of 2008 is:

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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