Spring Breakers,' the One Film Cineastes and John Waters Can Agree On Two best-of announcements this week, from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, may help bring some clarity to an overstuffed Oscars contest. At the moment, though, the Bagger is more interested in some lists that probably have little affect on the race but say a lot about how to encapsulate movies. The cineaste journals Cahiers du Cinéma (from France) and Sight & Sound (Britain) announced their best films of the year recently, as did John Waters, in ArtForum. There was some overlap. Cahiers du Cinema on "Spring Breakers" (translated from the French): "From this idiot object flows a sort of poetry that is at once repulsive and naive, burlesque and synthetic, vulgar and stupid - a kind of lost poetry." John Waters on "Spring Breakers": "The best sexploitation film of the year has Disney tween starlets hilariously undulating, snorting cocaine, and going to jail in bikinis. What more could a serious filmgoer possibly want? "Gravity" popped up on the magazines" lists (from Cahiers: "Survival instincts and the death drive intertwine in a vast movement of entropy and apocalyptic destruction." Sight & Sound: "Seven years, two huge stars and the most expensive digital rendering equipment dollars can buy"), as well as on Quentin Tarantino's. For the shock-loving filmmakers, there were some surprising choices as well. Mr. Waters and Mr. Tarantino picked "Blue Jasmine," Woody Allen's story of the downfall of a Madoff-like matriarch, with Mr. Waters noting, "My Bay Area friend said it best: "We love the movie here. Only Woody Allen could make San Francisco look ugly.""