Pretend you have a ballot for the 2022 edition of Sight & Sound's top 10 movies of all time list

25 different critics, that makes a little more sense.

That Suleiman film wouldn't have made the list a couple of years ago I don't think.

I don't mean that in a negative way, these things are always a snapshot of their time.

Unrelated and Everyone Else were good small-scale art films; I don't see the point of raising expectations unreasonably high by putting them on a list like this.

They need one film per year and they need them to not be too obvious.

ok list considering it's just 25 films chosen by 25 critics, want to read the justification for AI tho

Me too. Not because I'm skeptical, but rather because it's actually the key American film of the century thus far

bold claim! I don't think I've seen any discussion about it over the years, surprised at the idea of it casting any shadow tbh

I've got no problem with this list.

I remain a major skeptic of A History of Violence. Cosmopolis feels a lot closer to the times imho

It's a very quirky list. I assume each writer got to pick a film from one year.

I really liked Petit Maman, which in retrospect is a favorite Celine Sciamma film, and I'm happy to see it here.

I also love Weerasethakul's The Cemetery of Splendor. It is very mysterious and beautiful, and like with all of his films it is about the presence of a secret world that is masked behind the real one. Along with Tropical Malady and Uncle Boonmee I think it is in the top echelon of his films.

A make-shift hospital ward in an old schoolhouse is illuminated with eerie flourescent light poles that change colors to soothe the Thai soldiers there who affected with a sleeping sickness (I guess as a metaphor for the Thai government's ineptitude)

Apparently the past is also present, though. The hospital was built on the burial site of kings from thousands of years ago, and in another world the kings are sapping the energies of the soldiers in the ward to wage a battle

Twin princesses, first seen as figurines in a store but then as real beings, explain this to the protagonist, Jenjira Pongpas (who has fallen in love with a sleeping younger soldier) in a very surreal scene.

The hidden text gives away the plot, but it's not an exciting plot. Like with all of his films, not much happens but it is transfixing

Petit Maman is the the only Sciamma film I don't get.