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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

My Top Movies of 2007

So after seeing what I want to see, I can finally make a list of my favorite 2007 films, in order:

1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. Ratatouille
3. Waitress
4. Zodiac
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Lars and the Real Girl
7. Enchanted
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Michael Clayton
10. Sweeney Todd

Runners-up: Juno, Atonement, Once, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk Hard, The Simpsons Movie, Bee Movie, American Gangster, Superbad, Knocked Up, Into the Wild, Hairspray, Sicko, The Bourne Ultimatum, Gone, Baby, Gone, Charlie Wilson's War

Best performances:

Amy Adams, Enchanted
Keri Russell, Waitress
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Ellen Page, Juno
Russell Crowe, American Gangster
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men

Note that I'm counting the films that came out in 2007, as opposed to the ones I saw in 2007.

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