Ordinarily New York magazine’s David Edlestein does his best to have at least 9 movies on his Top 10 lists that never get near a Best Picture nomination.¬† Last year he must’ve been horrified when he accidentally matched 3.¬† He’s made up for that lapse this year by probably matching none.
1. Rachel Getting Married
2. Wall-E
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Cadillac Records
5. The Class
6. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
7. Waltz With Bashir
8. Shotgun Stories
9. Doubt
10. Trouble the Water
Check out Edelstein’s knack for chosing the anti-Oscars, after the cut.
Edelstein’s 2007 Top 10:
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. Away From Her
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Sweeney Todd
5. The Savages
6. No Country for Old Men
7. No End in Sight
8. Michael Clayton
9. Ratatouille and Persepolis (Tie)
10. Grace Is Gone
Edelstein’s 2006 Top 10:
1. The Queen
2. Blood of My Brother, Iraq in Fragments, Iraq for Sale, and The War Tapes
3. Our Brand is Crisis
4. Pan’s Labyrinth and Children of Men
5. Flag of Our Fathers & Iwo Jima
6. Days of Glory
7 Neil Young: Heart of Gold
8. Jonestown, Jesus Camp, Deliver Us From Evil
9. A Prairie Home Companion
10. United 93
Edelstein’s 2005 Top 10:
1. Munich
2. Junebug
3. Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
4. Me and You and Everyone We Know
5. War of the Worlds
6. The Aristocrats & Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
7. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
8. Grizzly Man
9. Skeleton Key & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
10. Nobody Knows
Edelstein’s 2004 Top 10:
1. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2. Sideways
3. (tie) House Of Flying Daggers and Hero
4 Bad Education
5. The Incredibles
6. Tarnation
7. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
8. Moolaadé
9. Kill Bill: Volume 2
10. Goodbye Dragon Inn
Interesting that 2 years ago, Edelstein chose both Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.¬† So he’s a big Clint Eastwood fan?¬† Depends on the movie, apparently. No Million Dollar Baby in 2005, and no Changeling, no Gran Torino this year.
