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The Best Of The Year So Far
But instead of the usual late spring and summertime sag, this year good movies have continued to wind their way to cinemas on a regular basis. Iron Man got the blockbuster season off to a flying start, this week’s WALL-E is easily one of the films of the year – I’d rate it right up there with There Will Be Blood, and not only because the two share an environmental concern and a wordless first Act. Meanwhile expectations are sky high for The Dark Knight, coming soon to a cinema near you. In other words, at this rate our top ten films of the year will be unrecognisable, come December. But this seems like a good occasion to take the pulse of what we’ve seen so far while the memories are still fresh, and to point you to films that are already available, or will shortly be making their way on to DVD. Tom Charity Standout MomentsThe first, wordless 15-20 minutes, There Will Be Blood Jason Segel bares his, uhm, soul, Forgetting Sarah Marshall In the blink of an eye: relearning to communicate in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Lady Liberty loses her head, Cloverfield The birthday party, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days A shocking traffic accident, The Orphanage Slamming doors: Philip Seymour Hoffman multiple entrances and exits in Charlie Wilson’s War Buying gas, Anton Chigurh lets fate decide who is going to pay: No Country for Old Men Juno’s stepmom Bren (Allison Janney) gives a judgmental healthcare professional a piece of her mind, Juno It’s raining men. Construction workers plummet to the ground in The Happening Marjane revises her mental picture of her boyfriend after the breakup, Persepolis Dumpling kung fu, Kung Fu Panda A party trick goes very, very wrong in You, the Living “I’ll take care of it.” Mr Big flashes his sugar-daddy credentials in Sex and the City The ants, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull “I don’t remember that at all”: A whale of a tale, Hancock The bondage session, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures A hell of an ending, The MistTop Ten So Far
In the Valley of Elah
Juno
There Will Be Blood
The Orphanage
Persepolis
Taxi to the Dark Side
The Mist
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Baddest Badass
Chigurh (Javier Bardem) in No Country For Old Men 
Harry (Ralph Fiennes), In Bruges 
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis), There Will Be Blood 
Margot (Nicole Kidman), Margot at the Wedding 
Billy Mitchell (himself), The King of Kong Unlikeliest Comeback
Robert Downey Jr (Iron Man) 
Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) 
Karen Allen (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) 
John Rambo (Rambo; Son of Rambow) 
Sidney Lumet (Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead) Scary Hits
The Orphanage
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The Ruins
Cloverfield
What Happens in Vegas
Most In Need Of A Comeback
M Night Shyamalan (The Happening) 
The Wachowski Brothers (Speed Racer) 
Feature-length Documentaries Oddest Couple
Liv Tyler and Casey Affleck, Lonesome Jim 
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, What Happens in Vegas
Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy, Wanted
Alexandra Boyarskaya and Chris Waitt, A Complete History of My Sexual Failures
Best New Look
Jeff Bridges: bald and bearded as Obadiah Stone in Iron Man
Christina Ricci: bobbed and bold as Trixie in Speed Racer
Will Ferrell, sporting an afro and short shorts as basketball legend Jackie Moon in Semi-Pro
Eddie Izzard: short and hairy as swashbuckling rodent Reepicheep in Prince Caspian
Most Imaginative Remakes
Ghostbusters (Be Kind Rewind)
First Blood (Son of Rambow)
The Red Balloon (Flight Of The Red Balloon)
Godzilla (Cloverfield)
Least Imaginative Remake
Funny Games (Funny Games)
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