best film:  Ewan McGregor has three (3) films that already seem to have true staying power - films that hold up well to close study, scrutiny and age.  1996’s Trainspotting from Danny Boyle hits

  best film:  Timothée Chalamet is in two (2) of the best films of the 2020s thus far with The French Dispatch and Dune – both from 2021. But even before that, Luca Guadagnino’s Call

  best film:  The French New Wave helped bring notoriety to Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running (1958) and that is a very worthy finalist here – but Otto Preminger’s fluid camera work in The Man

  best film:  For a short window of time - from 1995 to 1999 -  Kevin Spacey was as good as it gets. That run starts with both Se7en and The Usual Suspects in 1995.

  best film:  Ken Ogata may be missing that all-time top 100 film – but Vengeance is Mine (1979), The Ballad of Narayama (1983) – both with Shōhei Imamura – are just a step or

  best film:  JFK (1991) emerges from a crowded category with M*A*S*H (1970) and Don’t Look Now (1973) as the closest competition. Oliver Stone’s film is a miracle of film editing – but it also

  best film:  Pulp Fiction has a very healthy lead on the other usual suspects here for Bruce Willis. The short list includes Die Hard (1988), 12 Monkeys (1995) with the The Player (1992 -

  best film:  Rudolf Klein-Rogge is standout presence in nearly all of Fritz Lang films from 1921’s Destiny to 1933’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. 1931’s M is the big one that got away and