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2008

Showing 105 works across all media from 2008

Superhero · Action

The Dark Knight

Directed by Christopher Nolan
2008

Adults started arguing about superhero films because of this one: Ledger's Joker is so unnerving that the Academy gave a posthumous Oscar to a man in clown makeup.

★ 9.2
Animated · Science fiction

WALL-E

Directed by Andrew Stanton
2008

Pixar's bravest film: the first forty minutes have almost no dialogue at all, and a robot with two expressions carries more feeling than most live actors manage.

★ 8.5
Electronica · Hip hop

Paper Planes

MIA
2008 · From Kala

Gunshots and a cash register over a Clash loop, with Brixton kids singing a hook about immigrant stereotypes.

★ 7.8
Pop

Heartless

Kanye West
2008 · From 808s & Heartbreak

Auto-Tune, a TR-808, No I.D. co-producing, and Kid Cudi writing the hook: rap learned to sing from this.

★ 7.5
Baroque pop · Pop

Viva La Vida

Coldplay
2008 · From Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

Eno producing, Davide Rossi's looping strings, a deposed king narrating, and Coldplay's first number one in Britain and America.

★ 7.1
Documentary · 9/11

Man on Wire

Directed by James Marsh
2008

Petit walked a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974 and Marsh tells it as a heist: the planning, the break-in, and forty-five minutes in the air.

★ 7.0
Film · Action (film) · Thriller (film) · Action · Thriller

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Bryan Mills
Taken · 2008
★ 6.9
Indie folk · Folk

Skinny Love

Bon Iver
2008 · From For Emma, Forever Ago

Vernon cut it alone in his father's Wisconsin hunting cabin over a winter, and the falsetto still sounds snowbound.

★ 6.9
Pop

Love Lockdown

Kanye West
2008 · From 808s & Heartbreak

Taiko drums against an 808 heartbeat, Auto-Tune everywhere, and a version West scrapped and recut after the fan backlash.

★ 6.7
Indie pop · Indietronica

Kids

MGMT
2008 · From Oracular Spectacular

Goldwasser wrote the music at nineteen in a dorm room, an exercise in stereotypical pop that outgrew itself.

★ 6.7
Indie pop · Indietronica

Electric Feel

MGMT
2008 · From Oracular Spectacular

A 6/4 groove where pop usually sits in 4/4, and Fridmann's production turns silvery synths into a slow strut.

★ 6.6
Pop

Halo

Beyonce
2008

Three hours was all Tedder needed after hearing Ray LaMontagne's Shelter; Beyonce earned her credit reworking the bridge.

★ 6.6
Sports drama · Sports

The Wrestler

Directed by Darren Aronofsky
2008

Mickey Rourke had been out of serious work for fifteen years and walked straight back into this: a broken-down wrestler working autograph shows in New Jersey, filmed like a documentary from behind.

★ 6.5
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