The other day I was talking with a friend and she said something like “there is no bad years, just you picking the wrong movies” and while I’m not sure I’d exactly agree with her, I do think it gets into a certain truth about year end reports: they are all maps through what the critic/cinephile curated for themselves.
Mine has its fair share of personal tastes and idiosyncrasies: more action or crime movies than most, Brazilian movies that are not The Secret Agent (and The Secret Agent), far more Asian movies than most lists include, many of it don’t exactly play in big western festivals. I like to use favorites for these lists instead of the usual best because it seems like a more fair to owning to my biases and because I think best is boring, and I’d rather settle for list of movies that engaged my imagination in way or another. So, call it 100 movies, I find interesting enough to ponder and share.
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