The Top Ten (Worst) Top-Ten Critics Lists at The Reeler

S. T. VanAirsdale disses "best of the year" listmakers by coming up with his own list of "top 10 of top 10" (worst) listmakers in The Reeler.
Among the ridiculed listers are Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Lyons of E!, and Transformers fan Sean Elliott of iF Magazine.
Here’s VanAirsdale’s intro:
"As you might expect in a year credited with one of the best cinematic vintages in a decade, 2007 was also a time of unparalleled hype, complacency and obsequiousness among scores of list-making film critics. But it was also a time of reinvention, with many critics adapting their rituals to evolving pressures and preconceptions. In a media era when seemingly everyone has a voice, it’s not how one contributes [...]

by Andre Soares | January 4, 2008   
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