
2008 | The year in movies

The year's best shook our complacency
On screen over the past 12 months the most exciting leading man was a robot, presidential politics offered a yawn and a whimper, and entertainment was serious business

It would have been tough for the movies to top reality in 2008. Where this year was actually momentous, exciting, and strange, the movies often settled for being merely solemn - which was neither enlightening nor entertaining. The super-successful "The Dark Knight" was solemn, but it was also fun, something increasingly, distressingly absent from the year-end movie-going season. If a ... (Full article: 1855 words)
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