Finally, although it certainly was a clever piece of work, I left "Shrek" off the list in part just to be ornery, but also because I find the insertion of cynicism into children's films disturbing.
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Two more notes: Although it played here for several weeks, I managed to miss David Lynch's TV pilot turned feature film, "Mullholland Drive," which many friends told me I would have loved. I was lucky enough to be able to screen most of those titles, but did not see several potential winners such as Ridley Scott's Bosnian war film "Black Hawk Down," "I Am Sam," featuring Sean Penn as a mentally retarded single father, the highly acclaimed Billy Bob Thornton/Halle Barry romantic drama, "Monster's Ball" and writer/director Wes Anderson's first film since "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums." Every year, the studios release a few films for one week only in New York and Los Angeles so that they will qualify for the Academy Awards. To receive reviews by e-mail, send a note with the word "subscribe" in the subject line to launching into the year's list of best movies, I need to make a few qualifying remarks. THE TEN BEST AND TEN MOST ANNOYING FILMS OF 2001
In addition to NUVO, Ed Johnson-Ott's reviews now appear in alternative weeklies across America. He also reviews films for WZPL in Indianapolis. In 1998 he was named film editor for the paper.
Johnson-Ott started covering films for NUVO Newsweekly in '92, and became the paper's senior critic in 1996. He left the show in 1992 to host a weekly pop culture radio program.
In 1989, Ed Johnson-Ott began reviewing films for the Bob and Tom Show, the popular radio program based in Indianapolis and syndicated throughout the United States.