Best Films Round-Up of 2007
Well, as 2007 comes to a close, people are putting out their best-of and worst-of lists for everything it seems like. Here are some we thought were pretty good, and gave accurate non fan boy critiques of. All of these come from the “big names” in movie critiquing, so they deserve the extra attention.
TopTenReviews.com listed these as their top 5 movies of the year (as rated by overall critic score):
- “Ratatouille”
- “No Country For Old Men”
- “The Lives of Others”
- “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
- “Once”
The Mack Daddy of movie reviews, Roger Ebert, has also posted his: ‘The year’s ten best films and other shenanigans’
- “Juno”
- “No Country for Old Men”
- “Before the Devil Know’s You’re Dead”
- “Atonement”
- “The Kite Runner”
- “Away From Her”
- “Across the Universe”
- “La Vie en Rose”
- “The Great Debaters”
- “Into the Wild”
Tom Charity on CNN listed these reviews with pretty good summaries:
“There Will be Blood”
Anderson’s lacerating epic about the birth of the oil age. Daniel Day-Lewis, in the best performance of the year, is extraordinary as the prospector entirely consumed with his own enterprise; Paul Dano the evangelist who may be his nemesis.
“300″
Frankly, it was a tossup for the third spot between this gung-ho Greek meatfest and Michael Bay’s overblown toy commercial, “Transformers.” A lot of people got off on both, I realize, and the computer-generated work was impressive in its way. But no matter how you spin it, war porn is war porn — and we’d better off without it.“Into the Wild”
Director Sean Penn’s sublime end-of-the-road movie invests its story with beauty and spirit — in a strange way it’s a very heartening tragedy. With Emile Hirsch and vivid support from Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker and Hal Holbrook.“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”
Filmed in languid, wispy vignettes by cinematographer Roger Deakins, this is an elegiac, rueful evocation of the death of the Western hero, a slow passing that occurs long before Jesse (Brad Pitt) draws his last breath. Affleck is the disillusioned, romantic Ford — and the film is his tragedy more than anyone’s.
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