I made a policy long ago to never do lists. They amount to soliciting
unpaid labor from experts in order to lend legitimacy to a meaningless
list used to support clip packages and to sell ads. Let me predict that
few great silent, foreign or little-known films will be on your show,
and that after the balloting, the winner will not be 'Citizen Kane,'
'Rules of the Game,' 'Metropolis' or anything by Buster Keaton."
-- Roger Ebert. "Why I Loathe Top 10 Film Lists."
Wall Street Journal (October 30, 2010)