"A tradition can be sustained out of unbridled love or deadening obligation. The responsibilities required can summon gratitude or stir up dread, leave you energized or enervated. Like the holidays, a critic's top 10 list and other end-of-year features are a personal matter, like their approach to the medium they devour. It's a labor of love, straight-up labor or both. The lucky find joy in the aggravation."
"Tuttle has a few advantages. She enlists freelancers to contribute to the Globe's year-end books feature, highlighted by the year's best 75 books. Plus, December is a dead time for new book releases. That is not the case with movies. Because of January's Golden Globes and March's Academy Awards, studios tend to release their anticipated critical darlings in December so they are fresher in awards voters' minds."
Traditions can be sustained by unbridled love or deadening obligation and can produce gratitude or dread, energy or enervation. Year-end critics' lists and features are deeply personal, reflecting individual approaches to art and the medium. Creating lists is labor that can be joyful, burdensome, or both. Interacting with art benefits the soul, brain, and heart. Book coverage can draw on freelancers to build large year-end lists, and the volume of new titles makes top-10 lists feel daunting. December is slow for book releases but crowded for awards-minded films, as studios and publicists time December openings to influence award voters. Critics manage intense, scheduled workloads to meet voting deadlines.
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