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'WALL-E', 'Man on Wire' top Golden Tomato Awards

NEW YORK (AP) – Critics loved a love-struck robot and a tightrope-walking Frenchman in 2008. The sci-fi romance "WALL-E" and the documentary "Man on Wire" took top honors from the 10th annual Golden Tomato Awards. The awards honour the best-reviewed films of the year as determined by the website RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles reviews from critics to measure the percentage of favourable critiques.

"WALL-E" won the Golden Tomato for wide-release with a "Tomatometer" score of 96 percent. "Man on Wire", a film that recalls Philippe Petit's tightrope feat between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, scored 100 percent and won the Golden Tomato for limited-release films.

"Man on Wire" is only the second film in the first decade of the Golden Tomatoes to earn a perfect score. Pixar's "Toy Story 2" is the other.

"WALL-E" is the fifth Pixar film to rank above all others. "Ratatouille" was the best-reviewed film of 2007, along with the lauded Irish romance "Once". "Toy Story 2", "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles" are Pixar's other Golden Tomato winners.

The Moldy Tomato – given to the worst-reviewed film of the year – was awarded to the horror film "One Missed Call". That movie had the unfortunate distinction of not finding a single positive review, earning a goose egg on the Tomatometer.