Donald Clarke

• Best-of lists
• August 1, 2012, 14:17

This is not a silly season story. There are lists and there are lists. But the Sight and Sound poll of the greatest films of all time is one of the few worth heeding. Compiling selections from critics (and latterly …

• Best-of lists
• June 21, 2012, 22:54

Would you believe it? Just before I sit down to list the greatest ever bike films, I discover that I have a puncture — a major one too. I could actually hear the blasted thing deflating as I cycled back …

• Best-of lists
• January 10, 2012, 19:37

A few days ago we paid tribute to one of the great gentlemen of film criticism. J Hoberman, recently let go by the Village Voice, has always been a civilising influence on the medium. Now, we’re going to discuss the …

• Best-of lists
• December 23, 2011, 13:01

Every year, the good people of the Dublin Film Critics Circle meet up to tabulate lists of their favourite films. There’s a good deal of huffing, no little puffing and more agreement than you might suspect. This year, after much …

• Best-of lists
• December 2, 2011, 00:01

Today, The Ticket publishes our attempt to assess the best and worst of 2011. In a break with normal procedure, we are, this year, inviting Lord and Lady Reader to vote on our choices and thus create some sort of …

• Best-of lists
• August 29, 2011, 23:06

The “From the Vault” strand on Roger Ebert’s website this week offers us a really nice episode of Siskel and Ebert from 1978. It’s the best and worst of the year show. Roger and Gene name two relatively off-centre films …

• Best-of lists
• August 17, 2011, 17:16

No, this is not about Harry Potter (well, not entirely). The efficient review-compilation site Metacritic has just published an interesting article listing those films which ran up the biggest differentials between the aggregate ratings of reviewers and visitors to the …

• Best-of lists
• August 13, 2011, 20:55

Blah, blah, blah. Once again, we don’t mean “greatest”. We mean “favourite”. This should explain why neither Helen Terry nor Paris Hilton make it in. That said, there are, once again, a few indisputable greats here alongside the Rutherfords and …