Critics Poll: The Best Movies of 2007
By Norm Schrager at December 27, 2007 | 1:11 am | Print
A few days before Christmas, indieWire released an exhaustive list of the best films of 2007 — including the movies, the 106 voters, the point system and assorted commentary. #1 is Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, a movie that many of us won’t have a chance to see until 2008. Anderson is receiving the greatest accolades of his career, and star Daniel Day-Lewis is looking at some serious award nominations as well.
#2, by a distant margin, is David Fincher’s Zodiac, a film with real style and intellect that has been virtually ignored by the awards community (oh, who gives a crap?) #3 is the Coens’ No Country for Old Men, close behind Zodiac in the voting, and one of the most discussed films in years.
The rest of indieWire’s Top Ten:
4. Syndromes and a Century, a dreamlike film from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the promised “first film” about urban tales in Communist Romania, and winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes
6. I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’ take on Bob Dylan
7. The Assassination of Jesse James
8. The Portuguese drama Colossal Youth
9. Killer of Sheep, a raw, no-budget piece of indie work created by Charles Burnett in 1977, and just released in theaters this year.
10. Offside, director Jafar Panahi’s (Crimson Gold) story about the banning of Iranian women and girls from the nation’s soccer games.
I’ll be contributing my Top Ten to filmcritic.com again this year, and I’ll offer up some year-end thoughts here on the Lobby. Until then…
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