Village Voice film poll 2018–19: What movies would have won.

 


"Of the many reasons to mourn the Village Voice’s abrupt shuttering in 2018, its annual film poll, which the paper had conducted since 1999, isn’t the most urgent. (The paper’s local reporting on New York City had more impact, and its Pazz & Jop poll—which a skeleton crew of staffers is continuing this year—was a longer-running cultural survey.) However, the film poll was a fun and useful snapshot of the year in cinema from a healthy roster of film critics, and it’s one feature that a grieving fan desperately trying to duck family members over the holidays could theoretically replicate. Using the roster of critics from last year’s poll, and the Voice’s stated tabulation rules, I created an approximation of what the 2018 results might have looked like for Best Film. It’s almost certainly not “accurate”—for one thing, I heard from or found published Top 10 lists for only 85 of the 112 folks who participated last time—but it should at least be in the ballpark. If it isn’t, there’s no one left to complain!"

Village Voice film poll 2018–19: What movies would have won.