Best Films of 2008: LA WEEKLY/VILLAGE VOICE Poll
J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots.
"Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late December to snatch the prize from the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and David Fincher’s Zodiac, there was no groupthink stampede. Critics had months in which to cogitate over the eventual poll winner. Pass the popcorn, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009
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Tags: Ballast, Critics Choices, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, LA Weekly, Man on Wire, Penélope Cruz, Sally Hawkins, Sean Penn, Village Voice, WALL-E
