It's becoming pretty clear that Michael Mann is starting to lose it in his later years as a filmmaker. Since Ali in 2001, it's been a case of diminishing returns from Mann, to the point where his 2015 movie Blackhat failed to even get a wide release, due to a critical drubbing and a general lack of audience interest. Still, this is the guy behind Heat and The Insider, two of the greatest films of the '90s, so in 2012 Sight & Sound magazine thought it was still worth asking Mann what his top ten films of all time were. They shouldn't have bothered - along with Raging Bull and the obligatory Citizen Kane, Mann included Avatar, James Cameron's widely reviled sci-fi 'opus'. In the notes included with his top ten list, Mann wrote that Avatar "is a brilliant synthesis of mythic tropes", which "soars because, simply, it stones and transports you". Tell that to the poor cinema-goers who had to shell out extra for those crap 3D glasses just to see the damn thing, Mike.