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At this point in his career, Haynes has transcended the queer ghetto and connected with broad, diverse audiences who approach his cinema from a multiplicity of perspectives and for whom Haynes’s biography matters less than their own in determining how they understand and appreciate his movies.

World’s Greatest Superhero, Most Unwelcome Comeback, Best/Worst Third-Act Twist, Visionary Cinema Award, Most Politely Overlooked Awful Scene in an Otherwise Okay Movie, Worst Supporting Actress, Greatest Contributor to World Laughter, and more

Mary, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Momma's Man, Definitely Maybe, Boarding Gate, Burn After Reading, The Class, Chop Shop, The Secret of the Grain, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Before I Forget

Gran Torino, The Wrestler, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, Tropic Thunder, Shine a Light, Silent Light, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married, Frozen River

Wanted, Slumdog Millionaire, Australia, The Dark Knight, Revolutionary Road, The Counterfeiters, Changeling, Mamma Mia!, The Wackness, Transsiberian, Pineapple Express

Flight of the Red Balloon, Synecdoche, New York, A Christmas Tale, Wendy and Lucy, Silent Light, Happy-Go-Lucky, Still Life, Paranoid Park, Wall*E, Ballast

An American Werewolf in London, Night Gallery: “The Cemetery,” Pumpkinhead, Meet Me in St. Louis, Salem’s Lot, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Hush,“ Black Sabbath: “A Drop of Water”

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, Valse Triste, False Aging, Scenic View, Hold Me Now, Report, Les Chaises, Winter, Sarabande, After Writing, Obar, Origins of the Species, Ah! Liberty, Film for Invisible Ink, case no. 142 Abbreviation for Dead Winter [diminished by 1,794, RR

Alphaville, Contempt, Sympathy for the Devil

Weekend, Une femme mariée, Le Gai savoir and Un Film comme les autres, Band of Outsiders

Breathless, Pierrot le fou, A Woman Is a Woman, Les carabiniers

Most Confused Two Minutes in a Theater, Hugest Disappointment, Most Gruesome Twosome, Worst Poster, Worst Trailer, Filmmaker We Least Enjoyed Criticizing, and more.

Knocked Up/Superbad, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The King of Kong, Into the Wild, Day Night Day Night, Gone Baby Gone