Comments on: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Continues Critical Stampede Topping Peter Travers, David Edelstein & Huffington Post Best Of 2012

By: jingmei

jingmei — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

These lists are unbelivable.

By: Gwen

Gwen — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

Thanks for this post. Iâm really looking forward to seeing Zero Dark Thirty. A couple of my DISH co-workers are already talking about getting people together to go see it, but Iâm not sure this is the kind of movie I want to see in the theater. Iâm planning to add it to my Blockbuster @ Home queue instead, since I have that through my DISH account. That way itâll just show up in my mailbox once itâs out on DVD and I wonât have to go out of my way to seek it out. Plus, when Iâm done watching it, I can return it to the Blockbuster store down the street from my apartment for another movie in my queue. Everything about it is so convenient.

By: AE

AE — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

I'm looking forward to seeing ZDT but don't see it winning the Oscar, my feeling is Lincoln will grab it, though it's pretty cool that for the first time in a while the field is wide open, there's five films there that could grab it on the night, perfect end for what has been a divisive year at the movies.

By: Cribbster

Cribbster — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

There have gotta be a number of big releases they haven't seen yet. Like "Django Unchained." How are these lists legitimate if that's true?

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

"[Travers] list is respectable, if not filled with similarly populist choices like those at Huffington Post" Uhhhh…they have 7 films in common. 2-5 of Travers and 1-4 of Huff are the same fucking films, just rearranged. And Travers put TDKR, easily the most 'populist' choice of the three lists here published. Did you guys read these?

By: RFXD

RFXD — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:57:52 +0000

These lists are ridiculous. Just input the 20 movies that were both critically well-liked and distributed theatrically in the USA this year (aka in the past three months, save Beasts and Moonrise) into a top 10 generator and publish the results. Travers' in particular could be rearranged at random to no effect; just an arbitrary ranking of end of year big budget Hollywood prestige movies with the year's certified 'breakout' independent movie (budgeted at .5mil) thrown in for 'balance'. Huff is nearly identical. Looking at someone like Susan Oxtoby's top 10 next to these makes me sad — not that hers is 'better,' but at least it exhibits individual taste, discernment, and adventurousness. Edelstein's is slightly more palatable (in the sense that it indicates taste), but it still hews so god damn closely to mediocre studio stuff. Do these people — the USA's top cinema critics — not have access to anything that doesn't play in a multiplex or mid-range art theater? Seriously…I'm asking