RT Editors' Best Movie Picks of 2007
20 2007 films we think are definitely worth your time.
It's a fact: 2007 was great for movies. In honor of those 52 bountiful weeks past, we present the RT Editors' Picks -- our personal favorite films of the year!
When it comes to movies, everyone here in the RT office has their own singular tastes -- one of us loves all things Amanda Bynes (and it's not who you'd think), some love a good action yarn, and another counts John Cassavetes' Shadows among his all-time greats. So the year two thousand and seven -- with such varied fare as No Country For Old Men, Superbad, 300, Atonement, and more -- offered quite the cinematic buffet for everyone to dig into. Here are our editors' picks of the very best films of the year, in no particular order!
When it comes to movies, everyone here in the RT office has their own singular tastes -- one of us loves all things Amanda Bynes (and it's not who you'd think), some love a good action yarn, and another counts John Cassavetes' Shadows among his all-time greats. So the year two thousand and seven -- with such varied fare as No Country For Old Men, Superbad, 300, Atonement, and more -- offered quite the cinematic buffet for everyone to dig into. Here are our editors' picks of the very best films of the year, in no particular order!
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No Country For Old Men
(95% on the Tomatometer)
"Who knew Prince Valiant could be such a terrifying badass? Even Javier Bardem's character's name is scary. Chigurh? That sounds like something that could eat Cthulhu." -- Jeff Giles (Click here to read Jeff's full Top 10 list.) |
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Atonement (85%) "Atonement excels on so many levels, like a fine seven-course meal. Or maybe it's more like a heady after-dinner scotch, to be sipped on in melancholy repose, cigarette in hand, perched solo at the end of a heavy oak bar. On a stool lined with green velvet. Remembering lost loves past. You get the picture." -- Jen Yamato (Read Jen's list.) |
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There Will Be Blood (89%) "There Will Be Blood had me completely captivated from the first frame, thanks to astounding cinematography, a brilliant score, and jaw dropping performances from Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano." -- Rachel Sandor (Read Rachel's list.) |
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Lars and the Real Girl (78%) "Lars empowers the viewer with humanism and emphatic goodwill. I especially remember Paul Schneider and Ryan Gosling discussing childhood while doing the laundry, and the scene of Gosling consoling a lonely co-worker in the break room. No scenes have moved me more this year." -- Alex Vo (Read Alex's list.) |
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Zodiac (89%) "The ending...put enough of a cherry on top of my sundae for me to deem it worth spreading all over my body. Sorry, inappropriate metaphor." -- Ryan Fujitani (Read Ryan's list.) |
arendr on 12-27-2007 08:07 PM
I agree about most of these. Replace 300 with Rescue Dawn though.