^ I mean .. literally from today's New York Times. One can find similar listicles across the culture beat, from
Sight & Sound to the dumbest movieblog. I sorta get the appeal, but this isn't film criticism. It's advertising copy.
Naremore is an aging academic. I sorta put him in the same category as Bordwell and Rosenbaum --- well and good they're still with us, but what happens when they're not?
We'll be stuck with Lindsay Ellis, Patrick H. Willems, and Cinema Robert, who peddle malformed theory and wholly embrace the idea of televised criticism-as-entertainment, introduced by
Siskel & Ebert, but much, much dumber. (A selection of their recent vids: "Why is Cats?," "Do Kevin Smith Movies Hold Up?," and my personal favorite, "Adam Sandler: Really That Good.")