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  Mike H. - 5 years ago

  Almodovar is probably the most highly-regarded critical darling that I just can't quite wrap my head around. I get that his stuff is supposed to be campy melodramatic fun. I just don't see how people go from there to "greatest of the decade".

  Wall-E, on the other hand, is an incredible feat of grace and heart in storytelling. On another level. Easy pick for me.

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  Pamelyn woo - 5 years ago

  By far the hardest choice on this list for me. I

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  Erin Teachman (Washington, DC) - 5 years ago

  Wall-E soars in its first act, some of the best visual storytelling I have ever seen, animated or not. Wall-E also felt revolutionary for an animated film. There were rack focuses and long range out of focus zooms and all kinds adjustments to imperfections in shots where the digital camera behaved like a proxy for a physical camera in a way that I had never seen at that point, not even in video games. The rest of Wall-E never quite soars as high as that first act, but few movies can.

  Talk to Her is a hard hard pass for me. The plot and the characters never live up to the formal premise and it never comes close to justifying its choice of one of the main characters. Wall-E, hands down.

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  Wade McCormick - 5 years ago

  Kansas City, MO

  Talk to Her is my favorite Almodovar film, and I'm amazed it got as much love from the Oscars as it did. Wall-E is pretty great too, but this isn't close for me.

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  Mike Merrigan - 5 years ago

  Of all the Pixar entries I think Wall-E is the one most likely to get love. It’s a cinephiles kind of movie, and who is FS nation if not that?