It has been my pleasure over the past year to serve as the discerning eyes and ears at the movies for our faithful readers. I now have the dubious distinction and prioritizing challenge of selecting my favorite motion pictures of 2008 as well as those I disliked the most. This exercise is limited to movies that will have opened in the metropolitan area during the calendar year. “Gran Torino” and “Defiance” would have made my superior list, but their opening dates are in January.
