Critical Consensus: The Films Of 2007 (MCN)

Probably the last update of the Movie City News year-end tally, compiling 252 critics' "Best Of 2007" lists (posted Jan 6 2008). The number in brackets indicates the number of points received for each film. (The green movies I've not seen yet.)

1 No Country For Old Men ( 1239.5 ) *
2 There Will Be Blood ( 729.5 ) *
3 Zodiac ( 603 )
4 Diving Bell & The Butterfly ( 571.5 ) **
5 Once ( 509.5 ) **
6 Juno ( 483.5 ) **
7 Atonement ( 432.5 ) *
8 Into The Wild ( 416 ) **
9 Ratatouille ( 384 ) *
10 Away From Her ( 350 ) *

11 Assassination of Jesse James ( 340.5 ) **
12 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days ( 335 )
13 Sweeney Todd ( 333 )
14 I'm Not There ( 330 ) **
15 Michael Clayton ( 312 ) **
16 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead ( 292.5 ) *
17 Eastern Promises ( 270 )
18 Lives Of Others ( 202 ) *
19 Bourne Ultimatum ( 199 )
20 Savages ( 186.5 )

21 Knocked Up ( 182.5 ) *
22 Persepolis ( 181 )
23 No End In Sight ( 169.5 )
24 Host ( 146 )
25 Syndromes and a Century ( 132 )
26 Gone Baby Gone ( 127.5 ) **
27 Killer of Sheep ( 126.5 )
28 American Gangster ( 115 )
29 Superbad ( 114.5 )
30 Grindhouse ( 104 )

31 Hairspray ( 101.5 )
32 Darjeeling Limited ( 99 )
33 Black Book ( 98 )
34 King of Kong ( 93 )
35 Sicko ( 88 )
36 3:10 To Yuma ( 86 )
37 Offside ( 79 )
38 Lars & The Real Girl ( 69.5 ) *
39 Hot Fuzz ( 69 )
40 Control ( 64 )

41 Charlie Wilson's War ( 63 )
41 Rescue Dawn ( 63 )
43 Lake Of Fire ( 61 )
44 Margot at the Wedding ( 60.5 )
45 Across the Universe ( 59 ) **
46 Wind That Shakes The Barley ( 58 )
47 300 ( 57.5 )
48 Enchanted ( 55 )
49 Southland Tales ( 54 )
50 In The Valley Of Elah ( 53 )

51 Breach ( 51 )
52 After The Wedding ( 50 ) **
52 Private Fears In Public Places ( 50 )
54 12:08 East of Bucharest ( 48 )
54 La Vie En Rose ( 48 )
56 Orphanage ( 47 )
57 Kite Runner ( 44 )
58 Lookout ( 43.5 )
59 Lust, Caution ( 43 )
60 Talk To Me ( 41 )

61 Lady Chatterley ( 39 )
61 Regular Lovers ( 39 )
63 Waitress ( 38.5 )
64 This Is England ( 38 ) **

And here's my current list of favourites, for what it's worth. Quite a year: those first seven are all unqualifiedly superb films, (well, #4 is qualifiedly superb, but when it was good, it was very very good), and right down through #17 or 18 would be solid Top Ten picks most any other year. And that's with Zodiac, 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days, 12:08 East of Bucharest, Persepolis, Killer Of Sheep and The Lookout yet to be seen.

1 Adam's Apples
2 Into The Wild
3 Juno
4 Across The Universe
5 Assassination of Jesse James
6 I'm Not There
7 Diving Bell & The Butterfly
8 Once
9 This Is England
10 Gone Baby Gone

11 After The Wedding
12 The Lives Of Others
13 Michael Clayton
14 There Will Be Blood
15 You Told Me, You Love Me
16 No Country For Old Men
17 Lars & The Real Girl
18 Into Great Silence
19 Black Snake Moan
20 Ratatouille

21 Atonement
22 Amazing Grace
23 You, The Living
24 Knocked Up
25 Jindabyne
26 Aura
27 Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
28 Away From Her
29 Secret Sunshine