Lists. Los Angeles Times.

Carina Chocano insists that hers is a list of favorites, "rather than the year's best, acknowledging that this is a subjective endeavor undertaken with sketchy methodology." And there's a tie in the top spot: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Savages.

Diving Bell tops Kevin Crust's list as well (his #2 is Once), "And everywhere I turned, Philip Seymour Hoffman seemed to be staring me in the face. He was actually in only three films, but they were the performances that most got under my skin this year."

Kenneth Turan goes alphabetical and notes that, thanks to the increasingly intensified awards season rush, more than half the films on his list are still in theaters.

"In terms of home entertainment, viewers had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year," writes Dennis Lim, overseeing the DVD list. "[A]t the top of the heap, the most expansive box set ever devoted to a single director": Ford at Fox.

More lists: Ann Powers on music, Charles McNulty on theater and TV and the Web.

Posted by dwhudson at December 16, 2007 7:34 AM