[KineJapan] Eigei Best and Worst Ten

[Gerow Aaron]

The magazine Eiga Geijutsu announced its Best and Worst Ten for 2018. 

Best One was Miyake Sho's Kimi no tori wa utaeru. Worst One was Koreeda's Shoplifters.

www3.cinematopics.com/archives/104418?

Having participated in the EG Best Ten for 7 years, I have fond memories of it. But with shifts like the controversy last year over not allowing animated films, it is getting harder to take seriously. I knew Shoplifters would be worst one even before I saw the results, because recently they seem to always select in a knee jerk fashion any critically successful film—especially critically successful abroad—as worst one. That kind of tired predictability is not good for the magazine.


Aaron Gerow
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