The REEL Addict 

Well, here we are ladies and gentleman. A full week has gone by, and if you didn’t know before what films qualified as the best of 2008, you sure do now. Thanks to all of our contributors you’ve got a wide range of different opinions, and - even better - a lot of films to agree and disagree on, or just track down and see.Despite how amazingly diverse and eclectic everybody’s lists were though, there were some consistencies. Enough, anyway, for … wait for it… another list! Please, please, stifle your enthusiasm, your cubicle neighbors are starting to notice your girlish squeals and spastic dancing.

Now that you have yourself under control, I am happy to bring you THE BEST OF THE BEST OF 2008 List! For those of you without PhDs in math, the following may be hard to make sense of, but here are the complex mathematical processes I used to determine this list.

What I did was, I assigned each number on a list a particular number. Movies that got a No. 1 slot, received 10 points. Movies that got a No. 2 slot, received 9 points. And so on. At the end, the movie with the most mentions on multiple lists, and with the most accumulated points, was at the top of the heap and then I filled in the rest of this list from there.

So, without further ado, I present to you: THE BEST OF THE BEST OF 2008 List, according to our fantastic writers and some fancy schmancy math:

10. I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (6 points)

9. DOUBT (7 points)

8. TROUBLE THE WATER (10 points)

7. IN BRUGES (12 points)

6. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (15 points)

5. WALL-E (15 points)

4. RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (18 points)

3. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (19 points)

2. THE WRESTLER (29 points)

1. SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (31 points)