Films where the Popular Verdict (F1) significantly exceeds the Long View score (F3). These films dominated their moment — commercially, culturally, conversationally. The index's Long View framework asks a harder question: are they still mattering? The gap between F1 and F3 is the measure of a film that was everywhere and then, quietly, wasn't.
A note on interpretation A high F1/F3 gap does not mean these are bad films. It means the conditions that made them popular — the franchise moment, the cultural event, the summer spectacle — have not translated into the kind of lasting critical or cultural presence the Long View framework measures. Some of them may yet. The 2010s films on this list are still early in that process.