Waltz With Bashir

I've seen "Waltz with Bashir" twice now. The first time I saw it two months ago, I kept dozing off. However, "Waltz" was the final movie I saw in a bumper-to-bumper week of screenings, catching one movie after another before I finally filled out my top-10 list for last year. By the time I caught it, I was very sleepy and very irritable. When I mentioned my lack of consciousness to several film-critic colleagues, they confessed that they kept slipping into a quiet slumber while watching the movie as well. This led us to believe that "Waltz" could, in fact, be cinematic Ambien. (Full review)

An extraordinary achievement, Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" is a detective story as well as an moral inquiry into the specific horrors of one war, and one man's buried memories of that war. It is personal filmmaking of the highest order, recognized with an Academy Award nomination for best foreign film. (Full review)