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A ‘100 Best Movies’ List Is Only As Good As Its Celeb Ballots
When no one got me, the New York Times’ completely arbitrary individual best-of lists got me.
There is plenty of representation toward the “throw it on any time of day and it’s good” classics — The Social Network, There Will Be Blood, and Mad Max: Fury Road — even alongside oddball inclusions, like June Squibb’s affection for Wicked Little Letters and Naomie Harris’s selection of a little movie we’re all still thinking about called Emilia Pérez. Lists that stood out as particularly cinephilic include Will Sharpe’s, which features a majority of non-English movies, as well as Lesley Manville’s, with nods to her former directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Luca Guadagnino. His list includes maligned awards contenders in Avatar and Bohemian Rhapsody, college dorm-room poster selections like The Dark Knight and Inception, as well as both Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Toy Story 3.
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