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2007 Critics' Picks

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Note that some critics offered an unranked list of the top ten movies; those are listed in alphabetical order without numbering below.

Austin Chronicle
(Marjorie Baumgarten)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 The Lives of Others
3 Persepolis
4 No Country for Men
5 The Savages
6 Away from Her
7 I'm Not There
8 Sicko
9 Atonement
10 Eastern Promises
Austin Chronicle
(Marc Savlov)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Persepolis
4 Black Snake Moan
5 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
6 Juno
7 No End in Sight
8 Joe Strummer:  The Future is Unwritten
9 Control
10 Grindhouse ("Death Proof")
Baltimore Sun
(Michael Sragow)
1 Ratatouille
2 The Lives of Others
3 Killer of Sheep
4 In the Shadow of the Moon
5 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
6 No End in Sight
7 Pan's Labyrinth
8 Starting Out in the Evening
9 No Country for Old Men
10 Atonement
Boston Globe
(Ty Burr)
1 I'm Not There
2 No Country for Old Men
3 No End in Sight
4 There Will Be Blood
5 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6 Ratatouille
7 Michael Clayton
8 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
9 Zodiac
10 Lake of Fire
Boston Globe
(Wesley Morris)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Zodiac
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Bamako
5 Syndromes and a Century
6 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
7 The Golden Door
8 Day Night, Day Night
9 The Host
10 Ratatouille
Charlotte Observer
(Lawrence Toppman)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 Atonement
3 Ratatouille
4 A Mighty Heart
5 Away from Her
6 The Savages
7 Across the Universe
8 Into the Wild
9 The Orphanage
10 Eklavya
Chicago Reader
(Jonathan Rosenbaum)
1 Casa de Lava
(tie) Where Lies Your Hidden Smile
(tie) Colossal Youth		 6 Black Book
(tie) Ratatouille
(tie) Margot at the
Wedding
2 India Matri Bhumi (tie) I'm Not There
3 Out 1
(tie) Out 1: Spectre		 (tie) In the Valley of Elah
4 Bamako (tie) The Dead Girl
5 The Silence Before Bach (tie) Blade Runner: The Final Cut
7 Away from Her (tie) Honeydripper
8 My Brother's Wedding (tie) Letters from Iwo Jima
9 Private Fears in Public Places (tie) Starting Out in the Evening
10 Offsides The Assassination of Jesse James
(tie) Inland Empire
Chicago Reader
(J.R. Jones)
1 Atonement
2 Away from Her
3 Gone Baby Gone
4 In the Valley of Elah
5 Into Great Silence
6 Lake of Fire
7 My Kid Could Paint That
8 Reservation Road
9 Strange Culture
10 Things We Lost in the Fire
Chicago Sun-Times
(Roger Ebert)
1 Juno
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4 Atonement
5 The Kite Runner
6 Away From Her
7 Across the Universe
8 La Vie En Rose
9 The Great Debaters
10 Into the Wild
Chicago Tribune
(Michael Phillips)
1 Once
2 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4 Ratatouille
5 There Will Be Blood
6 No End in Sight
7 Margot at the Wedding
8 The Bourne Ulitimatum
9 The Assassination of Jesse James
10 Knocked Up
(tie) Juno
Christian Science Monitor
(Peter Rainer)
1  Breach
2  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4  Hairspray
5  Into Great Silence
6  The Namesake
7  No Country for Old Men
8  No End in Sight
9  Offside
10  Persepolis
Empire
1 The Bourne Ultimatum
2 The Lives Of Others
3 Atonement
4 Ratatouille
5 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
6 Zodiac
7 Superbad
8 Hot Fuzz
9 Knocked Up
10 Half Nelson
Entertainment Weekly
(Lisa Schwarzbaum)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 I'm Not There
4 Persepolis
5 No End in Sight
6 Zodiac
7 Lady Chatterly
8 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
9 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
10 Knocked Up
Entertainment Weekly
(Owen Gleiberman)
1 I'm Not There
2 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3 Michael Clayton
4 Superbad
5 The Lives of Others
6 Grindhouse
7 Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
8 Once
9 No End in Sight
10 Zodiac
Film Threat
(Peter Vonder Haar)
1 The Assassination of Jesse James
2 No Country for Old Men
3 The King of Kong
4 Into the Wild
5 Zodiac
6 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7 Eastern Promises
8 Sweeney Todd
9 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
10 Once
The Globe & Mail [Toronto]
(Liam Lacey & Rick Groen)
1  No Country for Old Men
2  4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days
3  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4  Ratatouille
5  The Lives of Others
6  Juno
7  Eastern Promises
8  Once
9  Away from Her
10  Zodiac
Hollywood Reporter
(Kirk Honeycutt)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3 The Kite Runner
4 Ratatouille
5 Michael Clayton
6 The Bourne Ultimatum
7 The Savages
8 No Country for Old Men
9 Charlie Wilson's War
10 Eastern Promises
Hollywood Reporter
(Sheri Linden)
1 Zodiac
2 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3 The Savages
4 Deep Water
5 Syndromes and a Century
6 In the Shadow of the Moon
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 Control
9 The Water Horse
10 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Hollywood Reporter
(Michael Rechtshaffen)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Atonement
3 Juno
4 There Will Be Blood
5 Blame It on Fidel
6 Ratatouille
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 No End in Sight
9 Once
10 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Hollywood Reporter
(Stephen Farber)
1 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2 I'm Not There
3 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 The Kite Runner
5 The Lookout
6 Juno
7 Gone Baby Gone
8 Michael Clayton
9 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
10 Eastern Promises
Hollywood Reporter
(Ray Bennett)
1 The Assassination of Jesse James
2 The Band's Visit
3 I Served the King of England
4  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5 Atonement
6 Michael Clayton
7 The Bourne Utlimatum
8 The Savages
9 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
10 Zodiac
Hollywood Reporter
(Frank Scheck)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 There Will Be Blood
3 No Country for Old Men
4 Sweeney Todd
5 Eastern Promises
6 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7 Into the Wild
8 The Savages
9 Michael Clayton
10 Sicko
LA Weekly
(Scott Foundas)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 Colossal Youth
(tie) Regular Lovers
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
(tie) Lake of Fire
4 Zodiac
5 Ratatouille
6 No Country for Old Men
(tie) The Assassination of Jesse James
7 Eastern Promises
(tie) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
8 Margot at the Wedding
9 Knocked Up
(tie) Superbad
10 Redacted
(tie) No End in Sight
(tie) The Wind that Shakes the Barley
LA Weekly
(Ella Taylor)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 Manufactured Landscapes
(tie) The Host
3 Away From Her
(tie) The Savages
4 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
(tie) Lake of Fire
5 Ratatouille
6 Once
7 Persepolis
8 Knocked Up
9 The Band's Visit
10 Killer of Sheep
Los Angeles Times
(Kenenth Turan)
1 Atonement
2 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3 Into Great Silence
(tie) Terror's Advocate
4 Lady Chatterley
(tie) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5 Lars and the Real Girl
6 Lust, Caution
7 Michael Clayton
8 No Country for Old Men
9 Once
10 Ratatouille
Los Angeles Times
(Carina Chocano)
1  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(tie) The Savages
2  Ratatouille
3  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4  Sicko
5  There Will Be Blood
6  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7  Juno
8  Once
(tie) Waitress
9  The Hoax
(tie) Control
10  My Kid Could Paint That
Los Angeles Times
(Kevin Crust)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 Once
3 Into the Wild
4 No Country for Old Men
5 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
6 I'm Not There
7 Away from Her
8 Michael Clayton
9 This Is England
10 Anything with Philip Seymour Hoffman
Metacritic.com
(Marc Doyle)
1 Eastern Promises
2 No Country For Old Men
3 Deep Water
4 Once
5 There Will Be Blood
6 Control
7 28 Weeks Later...
8 American Hardcore
9 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10 The Orphanage
Miami Herald
(Rene Rodriguez)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 There Will Be Blood
3 The Lives of Others
4 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5 Michael Clayton
6 No End in Sight
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 American Gangster
9 The Bourne Ultimatum
10 Zodiac
New York Daily News
(Jack Mathews)
1 No Country for Old Men 
2 Away From Her
3 Ratatouille
4 The Assassination of Jesse James
5 Lust, Caution
6 Grindhouse
7 Michael Clayton
8 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
9 Interview
10 Eastern Promises
New York Magazine
(David Edelstein)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 Away from Her
3 There Will Be Blood
4 Sweeney Todd
5 The Savages
6 No Country for Old Men
7 No End in Sight
8 Michael Clayton
9 Ratatouille
(tie) Persepolis
10 Grace is Gone
New York Post
(Lou Lumenick)
1 Atonement
2 The Diving Bell and the Butterfy
3 No Country for Old Men
4 Juno
5 Ratatouille
6 Zodiac
7 American Gangster
8 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
9 Hairspray
10 There Will Be Blood
New York Post
(V.A. Musetto)
1  12:08 East of Bucharest
 2 The Host
3  Exiled
4  Away From Her
5  Rescue Dawn
6  Glass Lips
 7 Flanders
8  The Band's Visit
9  The Wayward Cloud
10  The GoodTimesKid
New York Post
(Kyle Smith)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 Once
3 Knocked Up
4 Into the Wild
5 Superbad
6 Ratatouille
7 No Country for Old Men
8 The Lives of Others
9 Margot at the Wedding
10 Meet the Robinsons
The New York Times
(Stephen Holden)
1 There Will Be Blood
4 The Lives Of Others
3 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Persepolis
5 Starting Out in the Evening
6 No Country for Old Men
7 Sweeney Todd
8 Atonement
9 Across the Universe
10 Juno
The New York Times
(A.O. Scott)
1 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2 Ratatouille
3 (tie)There Will Be Blood
(tie)Sweeney Todd
4 I'm Not There
5 No End in Sight
6 (tie) 12:08 East of Bucharest
(tie) Live-In Maid
7 (tie) Into the Wild
(tie) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 (tie) The Lives of the Others
(tie) Michael Clayton
9 (tie) The Savages
(tie) Away from Her
10 (tie) Knocked Up
(tie) Superbad
(tie) Juno
The New York Times
(Manohla Dargis)
1 There Will Be Blood

2 Zodiac
3 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (tie) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4 Colossal Youth (tie) Eastern Promises
5 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (tie) I'm Not There
6 Into Great Silence (tie) Killer of Sheep
7 Lady Chatterley (tie) Michael Clayton
8 Monika (tie) No End in Sight
9 Paprika (tie) Southland Tales
10 Superbad (tie)

(tie)
(tie)
(tie)
(tie)
 The Bourne Ultimatum
The Host
The Kingdom
The Savages
This is England
Year of the Dog
Newsweek
(David Ansen)
1 Syndromes And A Century
2 There Will Be Blood
3 This Is England
4 The Lives Of Others
5 No Country for Old Men
6 Knocked Up
7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
8 Away From Her
9 The Hoax
10 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Onion AV Club
(Noel Murray)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Offside
3 Ratatouille
4 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5 Once
6 The King Of Kong
7 Into The Wild
8 Gone Baby Gone
9 Zodiac
10 Atonement
The Onion AV Club
(Keith Phipps)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4 Once
5 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
6 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7 Zodiac
8 Atonement
9 Gone Baby Gone
10 I'm Not There
The Onion AV Club
(Nathan Rabin)
1 Once
2 There Will Be Blood
3 Zodiac
4 No Country for Old Men
5 Ratatouille
6 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
7 Atonement
8 The Savages
9 An Unreasonable Man
10 The TV Set
The Onion AV Club
(Tasha Robinson)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Into The Wild
3 Once
4 Atonement
5 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
6 Deep Water
7 The Lives Of Others
8 The Orphanage
9 Offside
10 I'm Not There
The Onion AV Club
(Scott Tobias)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 There Will Be Blood
3 Zodiac
4 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
5 Knocked Up
6 Lake Of Fire
7 Once
8 Joshua
9 Black Book
10 Syndromes and a Century
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Steven Rea)
1  Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2  The Bourne Ultimatum
 3 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4  Eastern Promises
5  I'm Not There
6  Into the Wild
7  Margot at the Wedding
8  Michael Clayton
 9 No Country for Old Men
10  La Vie en Rose
Philadelphia Inquirer
(Carrie Rickey)
1  Across the Universe
2  American Gangster
3  Away from Her
4  Enchanted
5  Great Debaters
6  Into the Wild
7  Juno
8  The Namesake
9  No End in Sight
10  The Savages
Portland Oregonian
(Shawn Levy)
1 The Lives of Others
2 Once
3 No Country for Old Men
4 I'm Not There
5 There Will Be Blood
6 Ratatouille
7 Dance Party USA and
Quiet City
8 Michael Clayton
9 Eastern Promises
10 King Corn
Portland Oregonian
(Marc Mohan)
1 Children of Men
2 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3 I'm Not There
4 Bug
5 The Host
6 No End in Sight
7 This Is England
8 Finding Normal
9 Zodiac
10 A Mighty Heart
Portland Oregonian
(Mike Russell)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 Zodiac
3 No Country For Old Men
4 Persepolis
5 The Host
6 Exiled
7 The King of Kong: Fist Full of Quarters
8 The Darjeeling Limited
9 Black Snake Moan
10 Hot Fuzz
Premiere
(Glen Kenny)
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Killer of Sheep
4 Private Fears in Public Spaces
5 The Darjeeling Limited
6 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7 Zodiac
8 Ratatouille
9 I'm Not There
10 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
ReelViews
(James Berardinelli)
1 The Lives of Others
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Into the Wild
4 Juno
5 Black Book
6 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7 Gone Baby Gone
8 Atonement
9 The Namesake
10 Charlie Wilson's War
Rolling Stone
(Peter Travers)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Atonement
3 Into the Wild
4 Eastern Promises
5 Sweeney Todd
6 American Gangster
7 There Will Be Blood
8 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
9 I'm Not There
10 Knocked Up
(tie) Juno
Salon
(Andrew O'Hehir)
1 Bamako
2 Joe Strummer:  The Future is Unwritten
3 Romance & Cigarettes
4 Regular Lovers
5 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6 4 Months, 3 Years and 2 Days
7 Red Road
8 Forever
9 Zodiac
10 Killer of Sheep
Salon
(Stephanie Zacharek)
1 I'm Not There
2 Control
3 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Persepolis
5 Away From Her
6 Ratatouille
7 Grindhouse
8 Once
9 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
10 No End in Sight 
(tie) Redacted
San Francisco Chronicle
(Peter Hartlaub)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 Michael Clayton
3 Ratatouille
4 Juno
5 The Host
6 Knocked Up
7 The Savages
8 Grindhouse
9 Atonement
10 The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters
San Francisco Chronicle
(Mick LaSalle)
1 Waitress
2 Atonement
3 The Assassination of Jesses James
4 No Country for Old Men
5 Redacted
6 Dan in Real Life
7 Flanders
8 The Golden Door
9 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
10 Revolution Summer
Slate
(Dana Stevens)
1
 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
 2 Away from Her
3  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4  The Host
5  Killer of Sheep
6  No End in Sight
7  Once
 8 Persepolis
9  Ratatouille
10  There Will Be Blood
Time Magazine
(Richard Corliss)
1 No Country for Old Men
2 The Lives of Others
3 Killer of Sheep
4 Atonement
5 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
6 Persepolis
7 No End in Sight
8 In the Valley of Elah
9 Waitress
10 Beowulf
Time Magazine
(Richard Schickel)
1 Michael Clayton
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
4 After the Wedding
5 Black Book
6 Breach
7 The Savages
8 In the Valley of Elah
9 There Will Be Blood
10 Dan in Real Life
USA Today
(Claudia Puig)
1 Michael Clayton
2 The Bourne Ultimatum
3 The Assassination of Jesse James
4 Persepolis
5 Into the Wild
6 Juno
7 Once
8 The Namesake
9 There Will Be Blood
10 Zodiac
Variety
(Dennis Harvey)
1 Adam's Apple and Absolute Wilson
2 The Assassination of Jesse James and All This in Tea
3 Colma: The Musical and King Corn
4 Gone Baby Gone and The King of Kong
5 Grindhouse and Manufactured Landscapes
6 Lars and the Real Girl and My Kid Could Paint That
7 The Last Winter and No End in Sight
8 Margot at the Wedding and Protagonist
9 Michael Clayton and Romantico
10 Ten Canoes and Zoo
Village Voice
(J. Hoberman)
1 I'm Not There
2 Eastern Promises
3 13 Lakes and Ten Skies
4 Southland Tales
5 There Will Be Blood
6 Offside
7 Day Night Day Night
8 Terror's Advocate
9 Panoramas of the Moving Image
10 The Assassination of Jesse James
Village Voice
(Nathan Lee)
1 Southland Tales
2 Zodiac
3 Syndromes and a Century
4 I'm Not There
5 Pitcher of Colored Light
6 Regular Lovers
7 The Rabbit Hunters
(tie) Colossal Youth
8 Black Book
9 Eastern Promises
10 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Wall Street Journal
(Joe Morgenstern)
1  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2  Ratatouille
3  There Will Be Blood
4  Atonement
5  Into the Wild
6  Juno
7  Lars and the Real Girl
8  Manufactured Landscapes
9  Once
10  Waitress
Washington Post
(Ann Hornaday)
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2 Into the Wild
3 There Will Be Blood
4 Atonement
5 Once
6 Michael Clayton
7 The Golden Door
8 No End in Sight
9 Maxed Out..
10 I'm Not There
Washington Post
(Stephen Hunter)
1 No End in Sight
2 Persepolis
3 Starting Out in the Evening
4 Charlie Wilson's War
5 American Gangster
6 Shanghai Triad Election
7 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
8 Superbad
9 Breach
10 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Washington Post
(Desson Thomson)
1 Zodiac
2 No Country for Old Men
3 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 There Will Be Blood
5 Once
6 Juno
7 The Host
8 Eastern Promises
9 Waitress
10 I'm Not There
Metacritic.com Users Consensus
1 There Will Be Blood
2 No Country for Old Men
3 Juno
4 Once
5 Ratatouille
6 Superbad
7 Zodiac
8 The Assassination of Jesse James
9 Grindhouse
10 3:10 to Yuma

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