Film: The best and worst of 2008

John Maguire selects his most memorable and most forgettable offerings on the silver screen this year

TEN BEST

Director Nolan followed his reinvention of the Batman character with this even darker and more dangerous sequel, both beautiful and grotesque, which joins the tropes of the superhero genre to the inky noir of the vigilante film. The Dark Knight Directed by Christopher Nolan

Based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Schnabel’s inventive and emotionally ...