This was a great read. I really enjoyed Shovel Knight on the 3DS, and haven’t played these other games because I didn’t realize they were essentially stand-alone sequels. Will have to address that!
Once, in 2006, my now-wife and I were returning from Austin. She had purchased an octagonal glass doorknob at Uncommon Objects that perfectly matched another one in our apartment back in Boston.
Another great list, thank you. Exhalation was my favorite book of the year, and The Nickel Boys floored me. I’d also recommend Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones and the Six.
If I understand the ballot tabulation and added everything up correctly, here’s the rest of the top 40 (including ties like #19):
I hold AV Club’s year-end TV rankings in high regard, and am looking forward to digging into the shows on this list I haven’t yet checked out.
Seeing Jawbox twice (once in Boston, once in San Francisco) brought out my inner 19-year-old like nothing else. Runner-up would be Jose Gonzalez & String Theory at the Boston Symphony Hall.
“There have also been occasions where a prototype has not met my standards, and in a design meeting, I have thrown the prototype to the wall or on the floor.” His reason for this behavior, he says, is “to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with the design, engineering or quality of the prototypes.”
I’m glad that Paul Walter Hauser was cast in this; it seems like a natural progression from his I, Tonya character.
Baby, you got a stew going, etc.
You can NEVER find a horn when you’re mad!
I guess we can see where the band name Verbow came from...
He really looks like his name should be Rutter.
Good call on Widows-- that one-take four-block car ride is indeed stunning.
After obvious dreck like the Dinesh D’Souza “movies”, Human Centipede sequels and so forth, the first movie that sprung to mind was Cowboys and Aliens.
It does seem like the most glaring omission on a solid list, along with Toy Story 3 and Nightcrawler. That being said, I’m glad to see that Birdman is not here.
There is a great 80-minute movie somewhere in Toni Erdmann.
They also made True Grit and Hail, Caesar!, both decent movies but probably not top 100 fodder.
This is the second list I’ve read that put Fury Road at #1 for the decade, after Paste.