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A good year for the world of film and movie making; the first ten will make the top two lists; great films and very good movies.

5 stars*****
1.   A Mighty Heart – The movie of the year

A film that moved you all the way through, made you angry and put you in admiration of the journalist who lost his life and his wonderful wife.

2.   The Brave One

Jodie Foster strikes back and we were on the side of the revenge killer, which means the film worked well because we must not go there…

3.   Juno

The best script of the year, well acted by Ellen Page

4.   Fracture

Anthony Hopkins at his best with a great script

4 stars****
5.   Notes On A Scandal

Great Brit film with Judi Dench at her best

6.   Charlie Wilson’s War

A surprise and a great result

7.   Perfect Stranger

Halle Berry at her best in a movie with a very strange ending

8.   Live Free Or Die Hard

Some franchises are worth watching when they upgrade like this movie

9.   The Bourne Ultimatum

The best of the three

10.   Bee Movie

A wonderful kids delight

11.   The Invasion

Kept us wondering throughout

12.   Death At A Funeral

A Brit movie with fantastic British humour

3 stars***
13.   Mr Bean’s Holiday

Strange ending, but good fun throughout

14.   Ratatouille

Second best kids film of the year

15.   28 Weeks Later

Good, but not up to the standards of it’s predecessor

16.   Ocean’s Thirteen

At last they got it right

17.   Hot Fuzz

A hot script

18.   Atonement

Delightful

19.   Shrek The Third

Keeps the standards going

20.   PS I Love You

But I didn’t care for much

2 stars**
21.   The Water Horse

Nice film, but just lacked going to the next level

22.   Fantastic Four- Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Time to give up on this franchise

1 star*
23.   Spiderman 3

Two films too many in this group

24.   I Am Legend

One dimensional, unbelievable, plot holes abound

25.   I Think I Love My Wife

Only gets the1 star because I didn’t leave during the show

Those I wanted to see, but didn’t hit my drive in (now for DVD hire list):

1. The Hoax
2. Michael Clayton
3. Sicko
4. Across The Universe
5. Things We Lost In The Fire
6. Two Days In Paris