“Because when the world takes one step forward, bangitout takes ten steps back”
Every film critic from Byron Allen to Gene Siskel (yes, he's the dead one and I think that strengthens my point), is clamoring to release their all important Top Films of the Year list. Reviewers are very careful and discriminating when making these lists because the 10 Best list is not only a way of putting a pretentious stamp of approval on cinematic selections from the year gone by, but it also is a way for these individuals, who so desperately crave to be taken seriously as intellectuals in the liberal arts universe (sure, Mozart, Steinbeck, Prinze Jr.