Tag: best of

• Best Films of 2008

  1. WALL-E By far the boldest movie of the year. The wordless first half-hour is delectably good and a bit subversive too. The plot sags once the robots leave Earth, but it remains a beauty to behold. I was surprised at how emotionally invested I was in those cute little robots. It’s certainly a better…

  Jan 3, 2009

  # best of, film, Happy Go Lucky, In Bruges, lists, Man On Wire, movies, NCC Chronicle, review, Shotgun Stories, The Dark Knight, WALL-E

• The Best Albums Of 2008

  There was a lot of music released in 2008. I didn’t listen to most of it because I was too busy listening to the following albums to listen to much of anything else. I don’t expect to see any of these albums honored at the Grammys, but I still love them like my own hypothetical…

  Dec 31, 2008

  # Anathallo, Beach Boys, best of, Coldplay, lists, music, NCC Chronicle, Randy Newman, She & Him

• Best Films of 2007

  Note: See an updated version of this list. 1) The Lives of OthersThis German film won Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars last year, and boy, did it deserve it. Set in East Berlin during the Cold War, involving a member of the German secret police who spies on a dissident writer and soon finds…

  Feb 1, 2008

  # best of, film, Juno, lists, movies, NCC Chronicle, No Country For Old Men, Once, Ratatouille, review, The Lives of Others, Waitress, Zodiac