2007 Critics' Picks

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

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

6 Black Book (tie) Ratatouille

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 Offside (tie) The Assassination of Jesse James

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 Tribune (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 Ultimatum

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 Ultimatum

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

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 Butterfly

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 (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) The Bourne Ultimatum

(tie) The Host(tie) The Kingdom (tie) The Savages

The New York Times (Stephen Holden)

1 There Will Be Blood

2 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 There Will Be Blood (tie) Sweeney Todd

4 I'm Not There

5 No End in Sight

6 12:08 East of Bucharest (tie) Live-In Maid

7 Into the Wild (tie) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

8 The Lives of the Others (tie) Michael Clayton

9 The Savages (tie) Away from Her

10 Knocked Up (tie) Superbad (tie) Juno

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(Glenn 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

Metacritic.com (Mark 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

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

Summary of 2007 Critics Top Ten Lists

12:08 East Of Bucharest

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

Absolute Wilson

Across The Universe

Adam’s Apple

After The Wedding

American Gangster

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Atonement

Away From Her

Bamako

The Band’s Visit

Before The Devil Knows Your Dead

Black Book

Black Snake Moan

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

The Bourne Ultimatum

Breach

Casa De Lava

Charlie Wilson’s War

Colossal Youth

Control

Dan In Real Life

Darjeeling Limited

The Dead Girl

Deep Water

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

Eastern Promises

Enchanted

Exiled

The Golden Door

Gone Baby Gone

Grindhouse

Hairspray

The Hoax

Honeydripper

The Host

Hot Fuzz

I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone

I Served The King Of England

I’m Not There

In The Shadow Of The Moon

In The Valley Of Elah

India Matri Bhumi

Into Great Silence

Into The Wild

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Juno

Killer Of Sheep

King Of Kong: A Fist Full Of Quarters

The Kite Runner

Knocked Up

La Vie En Rose

Lady Chatterley

Lake Of Fire

Lars And The Real Girl

The Lives Of Others

Lust, Caution

Manufactured Landscapes

Margot At The Wedding

Meet The Robinsons

Michael Clayton

A Mighty Heart

My Brother’s Wedding

My Kid Could Paint That

The Namesake

No Country For Old Men

No End In Sight

Offside

Once

Paprika

Persepolis

Private Fears Public Spaces

Ratatouille

Redacted

Regular Lovers

Rescue Dawn

Romance & Cigarettes

The Savages

Sicko

The Silence Before Bach

Southland Tales

Starting Out In The Evening

Superbad

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

Syndromes And A Century

Terror’s Advocate

There Will Be Blood

This Is England

Waitress

Where Lies Your Hidden Smile

Zodiac

Best of Summary 2007 Critics Top 10 Lists

1 No Country For Old Men

2 There Will Be Blood

3 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

4 I’m Not There

5 Atonement

6 Zodiac

7 Once

8 Before The Devil Knows Your Dead

9 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

10 Ratatouille

11 Michael Clayton

12 No End In Sight

13 The Assassination Of Jesse James

14 The Lives Of Others

15 Eastern Promises

16 Juno

17 The Savages

18 Away From Her

19 Into The Wild

20 Persepolis

21 The Host

22 The Bourne Ultimatum