After seeing it one more time, I think that Slumdog Millionaire is an even better film than The Dark Knight. Why? Wency summed it up perfectly. "Slumdog's peak is directly at the end whereas Dark Knight's was the truck scene." Even though I find Dark Knight to be a absolute masterpiece in filmmaking, Slumdog's emotional and structural ascension is much more potent giving the ending an exclamation point to a beautiful, intense, harrowing, and transcendent film.

AND I'm going to say it.

Slumdog Millionaire is the best film of 2008. Yes, even beating out the Dark Knight.