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NYT's 100 Best Movies/21st Century Poll.

NYT's 100 Best Movies/21st Century Poll.

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Debate all you want on the New York Times recent “100 Best Movies of the 21st Century” poll — I’m not really here for that — but the one thing it succeeded brilliantly at getting right is knowing the feature would be addictively popular, useful and perhaps, best of all, be a catalyst for people to want to watch more movies.

That certainly worked well with me.

I came out of my news blackout for this thing, obviously, and managed to take the poll online, read some quotes (they could have done better there) and look at the lists of some of the voters without taking an emotional header. Yay for me. This is the kind of thing the NYT should probably be doing more of in its arts coverage, so I’ll applaud the interactive nature of it — if you’re an NYT subscriber it saves your picks of what you’ve seen and what you want to see, feeling in the process a little bit like Spotify Wrapped and Letterboxd.

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