After spending much of the year complaining about what was wrong with the movies, the critics paused long enough last week to pick the ten best of 1948. By week's end, four notable lists' had appeared. Only two films landed on all four lists: Sir Laurence Olivier's monumental Hamlet and Warner's melodrama, Johnny Belinda. 20th Century-Fox's shocker about insanity, The Snake Pit, placed on three lists (its late release missed the deadline for the fourth).
Three other pictures won places on three lists: John Huston's Treasure of Sierra Madre, MGM's The Search and J....
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