Empire seems to have become obsessed with lists. I don't mind lists, but I don't see the point of them. So what if you think Citizen Kane the best movie ever made with Casablanca next on the list. That tells me zero about the film, about why it should be on the list. I'd be more interested in reading on what the film's about, about what makes it so special and different compared to, say, a movie like The Tree Of Wooden Clogs.
Lists are boring, and deceptive.
We also get Movieline easily in mainstream bookshops, which is very chatty, light - and all about Hollywood. The kind of discussion these magazines get going on movies is about stars, box office grosses, with the accent on a very artificial concept of entertainment as the critical standard, whatever that is. No-one, I think, knows what entertainment is. One person's enjoyment is another's boredom. If the executives in Hollywood had their finger on its pulse, every movie would be a hit.