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"You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."—Raylan Givens (though he first asks "You ever hear the saying?" so it's likely older and anonymous).
AITA? It's now been five years at minimum since we've had a movie year that didn't seem decidedly subpar to me, with 2019 the most recent year in which all of the films on my top 10 list are rated 70+. (That's true of every previous year until you get...

"1994 was, in my opinion, a horrible year for movies. Three of the films on this list were not strong enough to have made such a list in previous years. I have noted these 'second-tier' choices."
Words that haunt me. I posted that to Usenet in early '95 (the post itself, which listed my top 10 for the year, doesn't survive; I found the above in someone's partially quoted reply to it that did), and think of it whenever I'm about to slam world...

Ordinarily, I write a fairly lengthy post-mortem in this space, but this post is so ridiculously late that I'm already just about ready to call for Skandies 2023 nominations. Put everything together in my personal file right after voting ended, as usual...

Another unorthodox pandemic year, though this time I felt comfortable setting the deadline in March (mostly to give folks time to see post-qualifying-run straggler The Worst Person in the World; Petite Maman and Memoria saw their true releases delayed...