Long ago well, it seems like a long time ago I was a full-time movie critic who every December would name my 10 favorite movies of the year, along with a handful of runners-up. Because I’d typically seen close to a couple hundred films that year, it was an interesting exercise, though I always resisted calling it a 10-best list (how can you say what’s best without seeing everything?), or ranking my titles numerically. (I’ve always wondered and envied how some critics have so much clarity that they can differentiate the year’s seventh-best movie from the eighth-best.)