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FilmWeek Critics' Top Ten Lists For 2007
Andy Klein, of CityBeat
Alphabetically:
Exiled
The Host
Hot Fuzz
Killer of Sheep
No Country for Old Men
The Orphanage
Private Fears in Public Places
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Lael Loewenstein, of Variety
1. Into the Wild
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Ratatouille
4. Persepolis
5. Crazy Love
6. The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
7. Sweeney Todd
8. The Savages
9. Away from Her
10. No Country for Old Men
Wade Major, of boxoffice.com and CityBeat:
1. La Vie en Rose
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. After the Wedding
4. A Mighty Heart
5. Jindabyne
6. Once
7. Exiled
8. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Zodiac
Also rans: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Ratatouille, Unconscious, The Savages, My Best Friend, King of California, and Lust, Caution.
Flawed but noteworthy: Color Me Kubrick, Atonement, Gravitas, Rescue Dawn, American Gangster, Knocked Up, Vitas, Talk to Me, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Mr. Bean’s Holiday, An Unknown Woman, Eastern Promises, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, The Valet, Hot Fuzz, Death at a Funeral, Gracie, There Will be Blood, Avenue Montaigne, Delirious, 3:10 to Yuma, Youth without Youth, and American Gangster.
Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media:
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Into the Wild
4. Lars and the Real Girl
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Michael Clayton
7. Vitas
8. Blame it on Fidel
9. After the Wedding
10. For the Bible Tells Me So
Claudia Puig of USA Today:
1. Michael Clayton
2. The Bourne Ultimatum
3. Juno
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Once
6. Persepolis
7. Into the Wild
8. Zodiac
9. The Namesake
10. The Savages
Top 5 Runners Up:
There Will be Blood
Sweeney Todd
Waitress
No Country for Old Men
Away from Her
Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor:
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (best film of the year)
2. No Country For Old Men (best American film of the year)
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4. Persepolis
5. Offside
6. Into Great Silence
7. No End in Sight
8. Hairspray
9. The Namesake
10. Breach
Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com:
1. Private Fears in Public Places
2. Exiled
3. Four Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4. Persepolis
5. Paprika
6. The Water Horse
7. The Bourne Ultimatum
8. Grindhouse (Tarantino portion only)
9. Sweeney Todd
10. The Host
Charles Solomon, animation critic for amazon.com:
Top animated films:
1. Ratatouille
2. Paprika
3. Persepolis
4. The Simpsons Movie
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