I would put Bridge of Spies higher up.  A very nice low-tech thriller that asks the audience to pay attention.  Mark Rylance was absolutely perfect in it.

West Side Story was gorgeous, but we already had a near-perfect version of that movie already. And Ansel Elgort is an OK singer until the point when literally anyone else is singing with him and blowing him out of the water. Rachel Zegler was radiant, but I kept watching the movie wondering why it existed.

It’s not a horrible list. I have a soft spot for The Terminal - I don’t think it’s great, but as far as Spielbergian sappy endings go, that film seems to demand one, so I always end up kind of liking it.

OK, kept going, and gotta say War of the Worlds is WAY too fucking high on the list. It looks great, sure, and the opening invasion is truly thrilling, but 2 hours of Dakota Fanning screeching and an eye-rolling happy ending left me with an indifferent shrug. I usually don’t rail against the rankings in lists like…

I’ve never seen E.T. Was 17 when it came to theaters. Saw everything else of the era but that. And still haven’t seen it. Someday.

This article has no direct quotes from the actual woman. Did she have nothing to say about this? It creates this odd sense that, even in an article critiquing the image, the person herself is still this voiceless subject of scrutiny by others. Please give her at least some voice if you’re going to be talking about her…

“Lena seems to hold few strong opinions on the use of her image.”

I’m glad Barsanti lets us know his politics in every article, whether it has anything to do with the subject of the piece or not. “Well, I’m not sure how I can write about Emily Blunt without sharing my position on America’s drug war. It’s inescapable!”

I guess I haven’t really gotten the sense that most younger women view their sexuality as a curse, exclusively or even mostly. That’s different, maybe even diametrically opposite, from not wanting to be shamed for it.

You don’t know how entertainment is packaged and sold, and the value of an above-the-title star. This movie was released in 2002. Friends was still running at the time and still atop the ratings. Matthew Perry was one of the most famous people around. He almost certainly said “No,” to dozens of other potential…

Passengers sucked, but its problems weren’t the result of being a sci-fi film. It was:

Passengers, even if not Amazing, is a pretty decent movie overall. It would have been 100x better if the story had been told from the perspective of Lawrence’s character first, but still.

Whoever wins, we lose.

I’m a Halloween Special 4 person myself. The Devil and Homer Simpson, Nightmare at 41/2 Feet, and Bart Simpson’s Dracula are all nearly perfect.

Agreed! It also has possibly my favorite Homer exchange in the history of the show: the shopkeeper scene.

Not a single Twilight Zone parody listed? It’s a Good Life, Homer 3D, the Genesis Tub (I made Lutherans!)? COME ON

I’ve long loved ‘Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace.’ Both for the overall brilliance of adapting the film, but also because Martin’s death in the middle of class remains my favorite ever visual gag in the entire series.

No “The Devil and Homer Simpson”? Clearly someone’s eaten all of their soul donut. 

“Quiet, you!”

I thought the Raven spoof from the first Halloween special, narrated by James Earl Jones, was the Gold Standard. Oh well.