Posts Tagged ‘ top-ten lists ’

Movie City News has an Über List

Jan 2nd, 2008 | By Rick | Category: News & Comment

Movie City News is keeping track of the year-end goings on; they’ve got a Big-Ass Chart (don’t blame me, that’s what they call it) with upwards of 175 critics’ top-ten lists tabulated. By their reckoning, the film with the most cred on critic’s year-end lists is No Country for Old Men, by a long [...]



Top Ten-o-lator 2007

Dec 25th, 2007 | By Rick | Category: News & Comment

As a prologue to her year-end top-ten list, Manohla Dargis of the New York Times writes
“THE whole point of a Top 10 list, a friend recently scolded me, is to number them. (I was declining to do so.) My friend was wrong, but only because Top 10 lists are artificial exercises, assertions of critical ego, [...]