2008: Movies

Movies enjoyed (and recommended!) in 2008, both old and new. I have not seen Frost/Nixon or The Wrestler yet, but the best movie I saw this year is Milk. List below, caveats at the end:

Highly Recommended:
Milk
Man on Wire
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Encounters at the End of the World
Mongol
Planet B-Boy
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood
(the last two technically from 2007)

Also Recommended:
Gran Torino
Reprise
War, Inc
Wall-E
The Wackness
Tropic Thunder
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models

Enjoyed on DVD/Internet/Airplane/etc.
Syriana
Inside Man
Zodiac
Southland Tales
Into the Wild
Gone Baby Gone
Juno
Dogday Afternoon
The Visitor
Baby Mama
Flight of the Conchords (TV)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV)
Casino Royale

Missed (i.e., to catch or rent)
The Band's Visit
Paranoid Park
Frozen River
Pineapple Express
Hamlet 2
Appaloosa
Rachel Getting Married
City of Ember
Happy-Go-Lucky
W.
Tell No One
Synecdoche, New York
Cadillac Records
Frost/Nixon
The Wrestler
The Class
Waltz With Bashir

No really incredible movies this year, but a fair amount of quality overall.