{"id":111210,"date":"2015-12-17T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111210"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:53:22","slug":"top-10-movies-of-2015-rogerebert-com-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111210","title":{"rendered":"10 Best Movies of 2015: Rogerebert.com Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 regular reviewers at Rogerebert.com were polled for our top movies. Editors then tallied up the polls, came up with the winners:<\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/the-ten-best-films-of-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Best Films of 2015<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<p>Each of us were assigned to write a short piece on one of the films. I wrote something on <i>Creed<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Please go read our Top 10: my fellow contributors are all such good and diverse writers. <\/p>\n<p>I participate in Lists because it&#8217;s part of the gig, and it&#8217;s fun to have the opportunity to write something short\/pointed\/celebratory about one of the entries on the list &#8211; especially if I hadn&#8217;t reviewed it when it came out. Felt that way last year, too, when I participated in The Dissolve&#8217;s awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/thedissolve.com\/features\/the-dissolve-canon\/908-the-50-best-films-of-the-decade-so-far-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 Best Films of the Decade (So Far) list<\/a>. The writing pool for The Dissolve each submitted choices. Again, editors tallied them up, came up with a list based on those tallies, and handed out assignments. I got <i>Melancholia<\/i> and <i>Amour<\/i>. I had written a review of <i>Melancholia<\/i> (not for The Dissolve but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/culture\/2011\/09\/3505150\/melancholia-lars-von-trier-makes-despairing-gesture-and-time-he-has-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for Capital New York<\/a>), but hadn&#8217;t written anything on <em>Amour<\/em>, so it was great to be able to do so. I&#8217;m not complaining about Lists, I&#8217;m happy to be asked (and paid) to participate in all these different polls, but I must go on record with saying that the concept of Lists has many many problems built into it.<\/p>\n<p>Once more, with feeling:<\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/balder-and-dash\/the-ten-best-films-of-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Best Films of 2015<\/a><\/big> <\/p>\n<p>Our individual Top 10s will be listed tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10 regular reviewers at Rogerebert.com were polled for our top movies. Editors then tallied up the polls, came up with the winners: 10 Best Films of 2015 Each of us were assigned to write a short piece on one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2668,64,2384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111210"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177545,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111210\/revisions\/177545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}