Here is my Top Ten List for 2007 - a very difficult list to make this year that gave us so many life-affirming movies as well as those that dealt with human rights issues (documentaries in particular). I saw about 80 films this year out of about 350 that were released. If you check Variety in the next couple of weeks there will be a list of the top 250 grossing films.
992 films were released this year, grossing over $9 billion world-wide according to TheNumbers.com http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/index2007.php. Of these I saw about 100.
The one film that comes before all of these is the best, most moving and transcendant film I have seen in ten years: The Lives of Others. It won an academy award last year for best foreign language film but didn't get a general release until 2007. So, wherever it falls on the calendar, know that I still get goose bumps from thinking about this film (the arts transform a Stasi agent in East Germany...)
2007
1. Juno
2. Michael Clayton
3. Into the Wild
4. Lars and the Real Girl
5. Amazing Grace
6. 3:10 to Yuma
7. No Country for Old Men
8. Paris, je t'aime
9. The Kite Runner
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Runners Up:
Ratatouille
Bella
Waitress
Once
In the Valley of Elah
La Vie en Rose
Into Great Silence
The Savages
Eastern Promises
Jindabyne
The Namesake
Evan Almighty
Becoming Jane
Hairspray
Arctic Tale
Devil Came on Horseback
Atonement
The Great Debaters
Beyond the Gates
Pride
Spider-Man 3
Sicko
A Mighty Heart
Martian Child
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Price of Sugar
Trade
The Bourne Ultimatum
Freedom Writers
Angels in the Dust
August Rush
Bridge to Terabithia
and I will be adding to the runner-up list though it may take me until it's time for Oscar predictions (or hopes!)
Most DISAPPOINTING film, despite the hype and proficiency, it didn't quite make the grade for me:
American Gangster
The BEST film I bet you didn't see: Adam's Apples (Adams æbler). I reviewed it in St. Anthony Messenger in June:
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Jun2007/Eye_On_Entertainment.asp
The WORST film (very subversive: it was so awful that it made me laugh anway; Paul Giamatti is always excellent and Clive Owen could have been James Bond): Shoot 'em Up
The WORST GOOD film that I saw this year (I think I enjoyed it because it was so innocent and the premise so preposperous): The Astronaut Farmer
The BEST films I didn't get to see yet:
Gone Baby Gone
Away from Her
There Will be Blood
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
God Grew Tired of Us
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Sister Rose, you must see There Will Be Blood, for Daniel Day Lewis, the cinematography and the direction (though I think the score is overrated and intrusive). I do think Atonement had better cinematography and scoring.
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