Oh, I'm not a professional critic, and I was just messing around.  I was bored, and it's always fun to respond to an imagined offense.  I'm always waiting for these discussions to lead to mud-slinging and personal insults, but everyone is so darn nice.  It's sickening really.

Concerning the issue of objectivity and its role in professional criticism.  To be honest, I'm fairly skeptical about most professional criticism (at least as it's usually practiced here in the States).  Now, don't get me wrong:  there are some very good critics out there.  However, I'm not really inclined to trust the vast majority of critics much more than anyone else, and I certainly don't expect a great deal of objectivity on their part.  Hell, most of the reviews one finds in the mainstream press are little more than plot synopses followed the author's personal opinion about whether the two-hour experience is worth your $7-$10.  You'd be hard-pressed to find a critic who seems to know the first thing about film form or who is willing to relate films to anything that more than a year or two beforehand.  

This, I suppose, is why I tend to rely on the tastes of certain nonprofessionals who self-publish on the internet.  First, they don't have editors forcing them to dumb-down their work for the hoi polloi.  Second, they're genuinely enthusiastic about the things they review.  Third, and finally, they aren't restricted to talking about whatever is making the rounds at the multiplex.  

Concerning the issue of best films vs. favorites.  I certainly see what you mean, although I think my lists would overlap each other more than yours do.  Of course, that's simply because I have better taste than you do.  (Well, either that or I'm terribly pretentious.  I mean, isn't it just obvious that my aesthetic faculties are so well-tuned that I'll immediately and passionately love anything that is great and, moreover, that I'll be sure to love things to an extent proportional to their greatness?  How could it possibly be otherwise?)  