20 Years of Top Ten Lists

I suppose I was a sophomore in high school when I first jotted down what I thought were the best films I had seen that "Oscar season," among them movies like Chicago and About Schmidt. (I later cheated and added a few when I saw them a few years later—something I try to avoid—such as Monsoon...

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Peter Pan and Wendy

 "His eyes were the blue of the forget-me-not, and of profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit up horribly. In manner, something of the great seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and...

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