Perhaps I just don't get this film critic thing, because I'm under the impression that great movies can come out any time of year.
I voted in the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle awards recently, and when the results were released this week, they looked pretty much like every other group's assessment: Movies released before October don't count.
Did all of you out there know that only motion picture garbage comes out the first four or five months of the year, then you go see sequels all summer and then starting in the fall, good films are released?
This simplistic view is not all there is to quality moviegoing, though some with short-term memories would have you believe it.
Not that there's a plethora of fine films released in March, April and May. There's not. It can be a pretty dry well.
But as my 2007 top 10 list of movies will show in this weekend's Scene 2 section, I found four of my top six best pictures this past year from those three supposedly meaningless months.
The 17 Okie film reviewers did combine to find room for "Zodiac," the marvelous, moody thriller from March. So did I. For the rest of my selections, buy a paper on Sunday.
I'll also include top 10 lists from our film writers James Vance and Kim Brown, a few more favorites outside the top 10, and even a list of the year's worst dreck in theaters.
Admittedly, more than a fair share of the bombs come from the early part of the year, when, as any good Okie should know, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff.
