Why it's so hard to say what's good when it comes to movies.
Barring whatever Artforum cooks up, you're unlikely to find a more uncompromisingly festival/arthouse/"difficult"-centric best-of-the-decade list than the TIFF Cinematheque's Top 30 of the decade -- which is actually 54 films long due to a truly staggering number of ties, but who's counting? The most "popular" movies on the list -- I use that word advisedly -- are probably "The Royal Tenenbaums," "A History of Violence" and "Pan's Labyrinth." I've seen all but nine of the rest -- the list tops out with Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Syndromes and a Century," the definitive beloved-by-critics-and-seen-by-almost-no-one-else 2006 film. All the movies on the list are worth taking seriously. Some of them I love viscerally, some of them I respect abstractly and some of them I frankly despise (looking at you, "Colossal Youth"). But is the whole thing a bit airless? Definitely. It's tough enough to get the festival world's elite to agree on what the...
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