To finish off the year, we’re joined by WTM’s resident Film & Cinema expert, James Tully. He’s here to give us the rundown of this year’s Connaught Cinema Top 10 films, as voted for by WTM staff.
Connaught Cinema: Staff Top 10 Films
by James Tully
As we approach the end of the year, there’s a tendency to collectively assess the previous twelve months and see what we’ve achieved. End of year lists have been a thing for magazines and TV shows for many years now and we’ve been running our staff Top 10 films of the year since 2014. So, this marks our tenth year of collating this information and celebrating the best films we saw.
Winners from the last Ten Years
2014 – The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015 – Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 – Anthropoid
2017 – Dunkirk
2018 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2019 – The Favourite
2020 – 1917
2021 – No Time to Die
2022 – Top Gun: Maverick
Real Movie Lovers
Our staff team is a real mix of people, with volunteers from across our live venues and the Museum. What they all have in common is a passion for arts, and that they are all local to Worthing and the surrounding areas. The thing I love about our top lists of the year is that there is no ego involved. This is a list voted for by real people who watch movies. Sometimes our staff will watch movies over and over and over again!
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Due to the quirk of being voted for by a real team of people the list is very eclectic, which I love, featuring a mix of arthouse movies and blockbusters. It almost always includes a movie that most critics wouldn’t touch with a bargepole! I can’t say I’m on board with all the choices here – in fact there’s a couple on here I actively dislike, but that’s democracy!
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The Top 10: Highlights
Our list is topped by Barbie, a film which I really enjoyed and was delighted to see get the success it deserves. It doesn’t feature in my personal Top 10 but hey-ho! I was also glad to see EO pop into the list, a small budget foreign language film about a donkey. A few of our team were lucky enough to see The Boy and The Heron at festivals and those votes saw it sneak in to the list, last minute. I suspect if it was released earlier it would have been higher.
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We would like to thank our wonderful supporters, volunteers and community for another special year at the Connaught Cinema. If you are interested in volunteering at WTM, please email volunteer@wtm.uk
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