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Worst to Best: Neon's 2024 Slate
The year's most anticipated screener shipment yields another adventurous year, including the best film of 2024. But it's not without a few bumps in the…
Jan 8, 2025
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: Authoritarian Dystopias Ranked by Quality of Life
Nobody wants to live in an oppressive totalitarian state. Yet the movies have taught us that some are preferable to others, at least for a little while.
Dec 10, 2024
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Keith Phipps
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Worst to Best: 42 Songs from Movies That Made the Pop Charts, 1965-1969
Songs from and inspired by movies were all over the radio in the second half of the 1960s. Some were great. Some less so. And some quite weird.
Oct 1, 2024
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Keith Phipps
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Worst to Best: The Films of M. Night Shyamalan
The up-and-down career of a director whose idiosyncrasies set him apart, for better or worse.
Aug 7, 2024
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: The 2024 Oscar Shorts Nominees
A viewer's guide to the best, worst and least mediocre shorts on the Oscar ballot.
Feb 21, 2024
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: Neon's 2023 Slate
Every year, members of film critic guilds are sent "the Neon box," the jewel of awards-season sets. Let's dig in.
Jan 24, 2024
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Scott Tobias
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17
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Worst to Best: The films of Alexander Payne
With 'The Holdovers' making a host of Top 10 lists, it's a good time to look back on the career of Middle America's premier cinematic voice.
Dec 20, 2023
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: Music Videos Set in Movie Worlds
From Madonna flirting with Austin Powers to Will Smith dancing with an alien, there's a long, sometimes dubious tradition of soundtrack videos that…
Aug 22, 2023
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Keith Phipps
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Worst to Best: Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
The auteur's quartet of '90s films recently resurfaced in restored prints on The Criterion Channel. They're all great, but we decided to rank them…
May 16, 2023
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Keith Phipps
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