Guy Lodge reveals how he voted in Sight & Sound’s decennial critics’ poll.
The Lists: My top 10 films of all time
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:18 am · August 8th, 2012
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The Lists: Top 10 remakes that got it right
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:05 pm · July 31st, 2012
With a new take on ‘Total Recall’ out Friday, we round up cinema’s best do-overs.
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Top 10 Tom Cruise performances
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:08 am · July 3rd, 2012
A salute to the actor on his 50th birthday.
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The Lists: Top 10 Pixar films so far
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:01 am · June 19th, 2012
With the studio’s 13th feature on the way we take stock of the studio’s best.
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The Lists: Top 10 movies I watched with Dad
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:34 am · June 12th, 2012
With Father’s Day around the corner, a personal look my father’s favorites.
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The Lists: Top 10 performances in Ridley Scott's sci-fi trio
Posted by Roth Cornet · 9:05 am · June 6th, 2012
With ‘Prometheus’ on the way, we look at the director’s work with actors in the genre
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The Lists: Top 10 film wardrobes designed by Colleen Atwood
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · May 29th, 2012
With ‘Dark Shadows’ in theaters and ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ on the way, we survey the costumer’s best threads.
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The Lists: Top 10 Cannes Film Festival losers
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · May 15th, 2012
With the Cannes Film Festival kicking off tomorrow, we round up some the festival’s greatest Competition entries not to win a single award.
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The Lists: The top 10 best-designed Tim Burton productions
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:45 pm · May 9th, 2012
With ‘Dark Shadows’ on the way, we look at the director’s penchant for art direction.
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The Lists: Top 10 performances in comic book movies
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:44 am · May 1st, 2012
With “The Avengers” hitting theaters imminently and “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight Rises” still to come, we look at the top portrayals of film’s comic book subgenre.
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The Lists: Top 10 Oscar upsets we'd like to see
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:04 am · February 21st, 2012
With ballots due in a matter of hours, we’re in the home stretch of Oscar season. But while some of the races are decided, that doesn’t mean we’re not crossing our fingers for this upset or that for deserving competitors watching the inevitability from the sidelines.
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The Lists: Top 10 things we learned about the Academy today
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:13 am · January 24th, 2012
It’s been a busy morning. The nominees are out. About a thousand different variations of “it’s humbling and exciting” are coming through from the various contenders. And all eyes are fixing on February 26. But as we transition into phase two of the 2011-2012 film awards season, it’s worth it to pause and consider what we might have learned today.
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The Lists: Top 10 bubble contenders to consider for Oscar
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:07 pm · January 10th, 2012
Ballots are in hand and the last push to this Friday’s poll deadline is tight and spirited. Now is the time when you cross your fingers for completely left-field picks from the Academy’s membership (most of which has likely already turned in its ballot by now), but mainly hope for some bubble contenders that are highly deserving to fall on the right side of the line come Tuesday, January 24.
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The Lists: Top 10 Steven Spielberg films
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:58 am · December 27th, 2011
For the fifth time in his career, director Steven Spielberg has offered up a drama (“War Horse”) and an entertainment (“The Adventures of Tintin”) in the same year. But for the first time ever, he has two films in theaters at the same time. So it seems now is as good a time as any to run through a list of the “best” films of the famed director’s career.
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My top 10 perennial must-watch Christmas movies
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:20 am · December 20th, 2011
As a break from the normal list-making shenanigans, I offer up a list of my top 10 must-watch Christmas movies. Some that mad the cut include “A Christmas Story,” “Die Hard” and “Gremlins.”
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The Lists: Top 10 Meryl Streep performances
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:29 am · December 14th, 2011
Meryl Streep’s interpretation of Margaret Thatcher looks certain to land the actress her 17th Oscar nomination, bettering her own record, but does it rank with her best work? Find out in our round-up of Streep’s 10 finest hours, including her performances in “Silkwood,” “Adaptation” and “Kramer vs. Kramer.”
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The Lists: Top 10 Gary Oldman performances
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:51 am · December 6th, 2011
Gary Oldman has settled into pimps and dwarfs, rednecks and clergymen, kingpins and gangster pawns, punk rockers and classical musicians, crooked cops and noble detectives, political villains and Gothic monsters with equal aplomb. The performances are varied and lived-in. With “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” heading to theaters, we use it as an excuse to count down the best of them.
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The Lists: Top 10 films about the movie business
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:39 am · November 30th, 2011
With “The Artist,” “Hugo” and “My Week With Marilyn” all released this month, nostalgia for the old-fashioned nuts and bolts of moviemaking would appear to be one of the season’s dominant themes. We join in with 10 of the best films about the business, including the likes of “A Star is Born,” “Mulholland Drive” and “8½.”
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