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I’ve already told you my Top Ten criteria and shared my thoughts as I worked through the selection process. I’ve even let you know that I look for variety in quality work when selecting my Top Ten, rather than say that this drama is better than that comedy. (If you don’t know what I’m talking [...]

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In our last chapter, I managed to get the number of candidates down to 13, despite adding three additional films to the candidates list. Now I must add another, I Am Legend, bringing the number up to 14.
So what can I remove?
In Part III, I considered the possibility of eliminating La Vie En Rose and/or [...]

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I have to add another film to my top ten candidates: Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s wonderfully true-to-life comedy, Juno. And that’s handy, because comedy is exactly what I want to talk about in this chapter of my ongoing quest for the Top Ten Movies [...]

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Last time I discussed this topic, I had 17 possible candidates for the Top Ten. Instead of eliminating seven, however, I’ve added one: Atonement. Now there are 18!
The very concept of a list requires you to say that this film is better than that film. That’s reasonable [...]

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Last year around this time, I wrote a post about the best festival-only films I’d seen that year. Not a very practical list, as none of these films were readily available to American audiences, but I thought an interesting one. And perhaps, I told myself, my praise might get some of [...]

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It’s December, when movie critics’ minds turn to their annual Top Ten lists. We don’t actually publish the list until January, but we think about it now.
At least I do. and I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject with you
. So let’s get started with the rules.
To qualify for my Top Ten Films [...]

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