Film Review: Man On Wire

. There’s a good reason that this documentary appears on 76 different top ten lists for 2008, and out of 286 top critics surveyed, it averaged 7th in the top 10. The film is an utterly apolitical insight into the events of 1974 in which a supremely talented tightrope walker, the French daredevil Philippe Petit, made an illegal traverse between the two towers of the World Trade Center just after it was built. At the time the towers represented the highest buildings in the world, and became a dr