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Moments ago, the American Film Institute announced their top ten films for the year. They also revealed their television picks, alongside a special citation for It Was Just an Accident. Take a look below at the results.
Here are the AFI citations for this year:
AFI Motion Pictures of the Year
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Jay Kelly
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Wicked: For Good
AFI Television Programs of the Year
Adolescence
Andor
Death by Lightning
The Diplomat
The Lowdown
The Pitt
Pluribus
Severance
The Studio
Task
AFI Special Award
It Was Just an Accident
The only movie whose presence here actively pisses me off is Wicked: For Good.
I was disappointed in Hamnet and Frankenstein but I “get” why others love those movies. There are compelling arguments for both, even if I disagree with them. I cannot even imagine a decent argument in favor of declaring Wicked: For Good one of the top ten best American-produced movies of the year, especially when the infinitely superior Roofman and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You were right there.
Heck, I wasn’t even as big on Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere as Joey was, and I would have picked that over Wicked: For Good in half-a-heartbeat, if the AFI was so dead-set on including at least one musical from last year.
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