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My Year of Flops

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First edition (publ. Scribner's)

My Year of Flops (subtitled The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure) is a 2010 book by film critic Nathan Rabin based on his columns on the website The A.V. Club.[1]

Background

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Starting in 2007, Rabin set out to provide a revisionist look at critical and commercial cinematic failures at a weekly basis.[2]

Criteria

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Rabin's critique for each film fall into three categories: Failure, Fiasco, and Secret Success.[3][4]

List of films discussed in the book (in order of appearance)

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[6][7][8][9][10][4]

Aftermath

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In 2011, Rabin expanded the scope of the My Year of Flops column into a successor feature, My World of Flops, to include TV shows, books, and musical albums. He began with Aaron Sorkin's 2006 TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and ended with the 2016 comedy film The Brothers Grimsby before opening his own personal site called "Nathan Rabin's Happy Place".[11][12][13]

See also

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Further reading

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References

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  1. ^ "AV Club's 'My Year of Flops': 15 Notorious Cinematic Failures Worth Revisiting". HuffPost.
  2. ^ Google Books
  3. ^ Rabin, Nathan "Book Review - My Year of Flops". The New York Times.
  4. ^ a b "Heaven's Gate" and Film Maudit Culture - Film at Lincoln Center
  5. ^ "Manic pixie dream girl" is now in Oxford Dictionaries". AV Club.
  6. ^ 'My Year Of Flops': A Very Good Book About Some Very Bad Movies : NPR
  7. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: My Year of Flops: The A.V. Club Presents One Man's Journey Deep into the Heart of Cinematic Failure". Publishers Weekly.
  8. ^ 'My Year of Flops' Teases Out What's Great About Even the Worst Movies - PopMatters
  9. ^ Google Books
  10. ^ From Bomb To Bust, Stephanie Zacharek, The New York Times, October 24, 2010.
  11. ^ Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip|AV Club
  12. ^ The spy who disappointed me case file #85: The Brothers Grimsby|AV Club
  13. ^ About —— Nathan Rabin's Happy Place
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