Critical Consensus: The Films of 1995 (Fung)

1995's Top Films: A Critical Consensus
Beginning with 1995, Alex Fung - apparently a student at Carlton University - compiled an annual ranking of the top films of each year. The first list tabulated "86 (or was it 68? - anyway, it was a lot) Top 10 lists from the leading film critics across the United States." Here are the results.

1 Sense And Sensibility
2 Leaving Las Vegas
3 Crumb
4 Apollo 13
5 Toy Story
6 Babe
7 Get Shorty
8 Nixon
9 Persuasion
10 The Usual Suspects

11 Dead Man Walking
12 To Die For
13 Heat
14 The Bridges Of Madison County
15 Braveheart
16 Devil In A Blue Dress
17 Smoke
18 Exotica
19 A Little Princess
20 The American President

21 Clueless
22 Il Postino (The Postman)
23 Safe
24 Burnt By The Sun
25 Shanghai Triad
26 Wild Reeds
27 Les Miserables
28 Once Were Warriors
29 Casino
30 Richard III

31 The Secret Of Roan Inish
32 Carrington
33 Clockers
34 Funny Bones
35 Unstrung Heroes
36 Through The Olive Trees
37 Lamerica
38 Mighty Aphrodite
39 12 Monkeys
40 Cry, The Beloved Country

41 Beyond Rangoon
42 Wild Bill
43 The Brothers McMullen
44 Seven
45 Unzipped
46 Before Sunrise
47 Before The Rain
48 Kids
49 Georgia
50 Theremin: An Electric Odyssey

Fung: "The difference between films #1-#4 are virtually negligible; they are practically interchangable in order (particularly between #2-#4). The film with the most mentions was "Sense And Sensibility", with 53 selections."

SEE/SEEN

CURRENT
LORNA'S SILENCE
JULIE & JULIA
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
MOON
FUNNY PEOPLE
DISTRICT 9

WATCHING FOR
GOOD
MUNYURANGABO
THE ROAD

SEE ON VIDEO
titles in italics: with Carole
AWAY WE GO
BALLAST
BENJAMIN BUTTON
CADILLAC RECORDS
THE CHANGELING
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
CHOKING MAN
THE CLASS
CORALINE
DAIBYONIN (The Last Dance) rec Andrew: "visually and spiritually rich film that was clearly inspired in part by IKIRU. Dir Juzo Itami best known for TAMPOPO."
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
DUPLICITY
EVERY LITTLE STEP rec Joe Morgenstern: Chorus Line doc, with Thea & Katie
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GALAXY QUEST rec Karen Cooper
GOMORRAH
THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD rec Jay Brazeau
HENRY POOLE IS HERE sf Jesus image on a garage wall
IN THE CITY OF SYLVIE
IS ANYBODY THERE? sf? Michael Caine meets little kid in seniors home
KAFKA
LAST CHANCE HARVEY
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL Jarmusch ("angel" character like Ghost Dog)
MUNYURANGABO
OF TIME AND THE CITY
THE POOL rec Paul Thiessen
SEX AND IMAGINING
SHALL WE KISS "Rohmer / Woody Allen"
SKY CAPTAIN rec Jan Keisser
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
SUMMER HOURS
SUNSHINE CLEANING
TROUBLE THE WATER sf
VALKYRIE
WAKING LIFE rec Mike H: "Holy Moments" revolutionary in his life as a film-watcher/ teacher.
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
WENDY & LUCY
7 POUNDS rec Katie