BEST OF 2007

1, Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
4. Joel & Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men
5. David Fincher’s Zodiac
6. Sean Penn’s Into the Wild
7. Ridley Scott’s American Gangster
8. Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd
9. David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises
10. Susanne Bier’s Things We Lost in the Fire

Runners-Up: Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, Michael Clayton, The Kingdom, 300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Transformers, 3:10 To Yuma, Knocked Up, Once, Rescue Dawn, Away From Her, Charlie Wilson's War, Juno, Gone Baby Gone, Enchanted, Southland Tales, I'm Not There, The King of Kong, Crazy Love, We Own the Night, In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 28 Weeks Later, Breach, Ratatouille, The TV Set, Dan in Real Life, Sicko, No End in Sight, The Darjeeling Limited, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, The Simpons: The Movie, Waitress, 2 Days in Paris, Lions for Lambs, The Host, Seraphim Falls, Reign Over Me, Smokin' Aces, Shoot 'em Up, Reservation Road, Joshua, Bug, Black Snake Moan, Sunshine, The Astronaut Farmer, Margot at the Wedding, Superbad, Redacted, The Mist.


Note: With only one year left in this decade, 2007 is my pick, thus far, for best overall year.