End of year lists are about quality, not quantity, so I try to eschew comments about the strength or weakness of a given year based on how hard it may be to fill out the bottom …

Being Elmo is good.
It doesn’t matter, as one of my colleagues is fond of saying, how you want to parse that. 

Normally I have more fun doing this list than an annual end of the year favorites, but this year has been different. Perhaps that is because I’ve seen less older films. Perhaps that is because …

Cynthia L. Morefield serves as guest host for a round table discussion of the best films of 2010.  Peter Waldron and Elizabeth Rambo share some of their favorite films and look for trends amongst the …

In podcasting about my personal favorites for 2010, I asked my friend Peter Waldron, “When did ‘entertaining’ become a backhanded compliment?” I did–and do–see a schism on my list between heavier, more prestigious films and …

Elizabeth Rambo and Peter Waldron join me to discuss Top 10 Lists (for the year and decade).
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