Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Revised Top 10 List

I saw a few movies over the last few days, one of which made me revise my Top 10 list. So now here are my top 10 movies of 2007, in no particular order:
1. Michael Clayton
2. Ratatouille
3. Juno
4. Lars & the Real Girl
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Once
7. The Bourne Ultimatum
8. Hot Fuzz
9. The Hoax
10. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


Following are movies that didn't make my top 10 that I would still recommend, with reservations:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Waitress
Zodiac
Hairspray
The Savages
Atonement
Sweeney Todd
Eastern Promises
Knocked Up
The Simpsons Movie
Superbad
The Lookout
The Host
Avenue Montaigne
The Dead Girl


Following are movies I can't recommend, because they either sucked or came close to sucking:
The Golden Compass
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Breach
Black Book
Live Free or Die Hard
Disturbia
Lucky You
You Kill Me
Mr. Brooks
3:10 to Yuma
300
Shrek 3
The Number 23 (the worst film I saw in 2007)


Following are some movies that didn't make my Top 10 list because I haven't seen them yet:
There Will Be Blood
Into the Wild
Charlie Wilson's War
American Gangster
Gone Baby Gone
Rescue Dawn
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Lust, Caution
The Mist
I Am Legend
The Kingdom
The Kite Runner
In the Valley of Elah
The Great Debaters
Spider Man 3
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Harry Potter and the Thing of the Thing
The Transformers
Bee Movie
Across the Universe
Oceans Thirteen
The Darjeeling Limited
Dan in Real Life
Death at a Funeral
The Namesake