63. Sideways
I’ll admit it: I probably like “Sideways” as much as I do because it’s about a critic. But as Paul Giamatti gives his old buddy Thomas Haden Church a tour of wine country, and Church is mostly interested in getting drunk and laid, the central critic’s dilemma is so nicely illustrated. If you’re going to love something like wine (or movies, or life) is it better to appreciate the very best of what that thing can be and refuse to settle for anything less, or are you better off consuming as much of it as possible, paying little or no attention to quality, subtlety, and nuance? Who lives a better, more meaningful life – the idealist who is never satisfied, or the pragmatist who has no imagination?
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