Reeling's Top 10 Movies of 2007

Reeling's Top 10 of 2007

Robin Clifford

Laura Clifford

1) There Will Be Blood
2) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward
Robert Ford
4) No Country for Old Men
5) Atonement
6) Zodiac
7) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
8) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
9) Persepolis
10) Gone Baby Gone

Best Animation: Persepolis, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie

Best Documentary: No End in Sight, War/Dance and Into Great Silence.

Also worthy: Into the Wild, Enchanted, The Namesake, Away From Her, 12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, Charlie Wilson's War, Control, Hamaca Paraguaya, Blame It on Fidel

1) Zodiac
2) The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5) No Country For Old Men
6) There Will Be Blood
7) Atonement
8) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9) Into the Wild / Once
10) Control

Best Animation: Persepolis

Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, No End in Sight and War/Dance.

Great little movies that nobody saw: Great World of Sound, The Last Winter

Special kudos to actor John Carroll Lynch for his diametrically opposed performances in "Zodiac" and "Things We Lost in the Fire" and to Irfan Khan for his moving turn in "The Namesake" and vibrant character in "A Mighty Heart." Put it all on the line award to Christina Ricci for "Blacksnake Moan."

Congratulations to cinematographer Roger Deakins for his hat trick of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," "No Country for Old Men" and "In the Valley of Elah."

Rialto Pictures does it again, unearthing the fabulous 1962 "Mafioso" for release while Milestone Films
worked hard to release the legendary 1977 "Killer of Sheep."