My point is that if Station Agent is tied for best film of the year according to a relatively large survey of people, some of them must have "warmed" to Finbar. People lacking good judgement, you'd say.
Yes, I would most definitely say. But who are these people? And why should they matter to me in judging the merits of the film?

Your claim --
. . .my aim is to figure out why I feel/think a certain way about a film, and to attempt to put that in words. I am no "arbiter of taste". I have a personal opinion. ..


-- would mean you have really no “critical approach" at all (though you describe it as such) – but this I think is disingenuous, because in fact you are seeking to show that I am wrong, and would appear to disagree with my critical assessment and want to refute it. But what is your proof? What is there to warm to in Finbar? Can you support your claim? And what are the merits of the film that I have missed in accusing it of falling into indie weaknesses of outsider fetishism and easy, lowkeyed emotional resolutions that give a false sense of being realistic about a hard subject -- while in fact providing only the easiest and most non-committal of answers?