AV Club. "The Year in Film 2007."

"We at the AV Club spent much of the spring and summer suspecting that 2007 would offer only a modest helping of great films. Then, almost as soon as the leaves started to turn, 2007 transformed from an okay film year to a pretty good film year to the best film year in recent memory."

No Country for Old Men tops the "Master List," the conglomerate of all five Club film writers' votes. The notes on each film are fine, but the fun starts with the individual lists, each featuring a top ten, naturally, but also "The Next Five," a notable performance (e.g., Scott Tobias praises Carice van Houten's in Black Book), notes on an overrated and an underrated film (Keith Phipps defends The Darjeeling Limited}, a "Most Pleasant Surprise" (for Nathan Rabin, it's The Year of the Dog), a "Guilty Pleasure" (Tasha Robinson picks Across the Universe) and a "Future Film That Time Forgot" (Noel Murray tags Slipstream).

Posted by dwhudson at December 19, 2007 10:54 AM