Now that we are in 2009 and I have watched most of the films from 2008 I feel comfortable writing my final list of the best films of 2008. This time though I will give a reason for each film being where it is. So enjoy and post your own best films if you want, this is open to anyone. I hope you like the new list:)

1. Let The Right One in- I know that I have mentioned this film countless times, but for whatever reason I think this film like all the others on the list is special. The great acting from the first time child actors Lina Leandersson and Kare Hedebrant is incredible, the amount of emotion that Lina's face alone can express is remarkable. The sweet and tender relationship the two kids have throughout the film is the best part. The tragic vampire girl Eli is a great character who has to kill to stay alive, but she is really a child who needs companionship and love just like all of us. The beautiful and bittersweet relationship she finds with the boy Oskar was done so well and the whole film is done so perfectly, except for a slightly cheesy looking scene involving cats, that I have no choice but to say that this is the best film of the year to me. No other film has stayed with me and inspired me to write my own story.

2. Waltz with Bashir- This film was tied in my mind with Let the right one in, but just because it is listed as number 2 that does not mean it is a worse film. Waltz with Bashir is beautiful, but for different reasons. It shows how war and violence in the middle east can affect even those who help commit it. The animation in this film is strange, the characters movements look weirdly stiff and almost robotic. Then I found out this the whole film was done using Flash, which is also used to make crappy online cartoon by amateurs who want to make it big. That blew my mind, the quality of animation in this film has a slight surreal quality to it, and the mixture of the weird animation that I grew to love with the sad tale of a man who wants to discover his own past during a time of crisis was touching and in the end of the film very tragic. it showed the death and brutality is sadly inevitable in our time and the films setting.

3. The Fall- This is a film about storytelling in general and how we all perseve the same story. Many say that it is self indulgent and egotistical, but in this case I dont give a crap. This film creates incredible images with the use of no CGI whatsoever. Remember when your parents or grandparents used to tell you stories? Do you remember how you loved reading or listening to a great story? This is a film about how we love to hear a story and how all stories must come to an end, however tragic it may seem.

4. Revolutionary Road- This film is about the downfall and tragic illusion of the American Dream and how a couple in the 1950s discover how fake their lives are.

5. In Bruges- Sometimes a great dark comedy that makes me laugh and then feel sad is all I need to see to love a film. This is one of the great and again tragic (Wow this is a depressing year, some of the best films are tragic.) comedies of our decade so far.

6. Synecdoche, New York- I cannot explain why I love this film, it is directed by Charlie Kaufman who wrote Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. All I can say is that this film will either make you fall in love, or make your head explode.

7. Gomorra- This films rips apart any romanticizing and glamorizing that mob films usually have. This film is brutal, violent and ugly. For that it is a great film that shows the mob and how it controls Naples.

8. Che- A film that shows the life of Che Guevera and his many battles. It doesn't make him into a hero or villian, it just shows him how he was apparently. I'm sure it is historically inaccurate, but I found it facinating and engrosing. Benicio Del Toro is great in this.

9. Slumdog Millionaire- Though the love theme is a tad cheesy at times, the overall film is so sweet and touching and Danny Boyle is such a great director that he made it work perfectly.

10. JCVD- As an action junkie, I found this film about the downfall of Jean Claude Van Damme and his career, both a hilarious satire of action film junkies and how they idiolize people like Stallone and Van Damme, and at the same time it is a brave film with Van Damme who is incredible and tragic as the ageing action star.

Overall I give this year for films a 9 out of 10. The only thing missing is more good horror and foreign films. I hope 2009 has some great films too:D