Lists, 12/19.

When I saw the email, I so wanted to point to the RES 2005 Staff Picks but didn't know how. Anne Thompson knows how.

Independent arts critics weigh in briefly on 2005. And no one seems to be evaluating the year as often as David Thomson. Probably because editors keep asking him to pick another angle and have another go. Today: "[M]ore or less, the scale and gravity of the so-called "independent" film (the one made outside the banking system and the cheerful attitudes of Hollywood) has become the mainstream movie."

Kristopher Tapley tops his ten with Last Days; heading up his list of worsts is Transamerica.

At Cinemarati: Nathaniel R's "Highlights from the Year in Movie Hair" and Dan Jardine's "Favourite Shots of 2005."

Update: The AP movie critics, David Germain and Christy Lemire, make their choices. Topping Germain's: Dear Frankie; Lemire's: The Squid and the Whale.

Posted by dwhudson at December 19, 2005 7:47 AM