WTF?! IndieWire’s Top 100 Movies Of 2007

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 4:06 pm EST

IndieWire polled “106 leading North American film critics,” and they came up with the Top 100 Movies of 2007. Here is the top twenty films:

  1. There Will Be Blood

  2. Zodiac

  3. No Country for Old Men

  4. Syndromes and a Century

  5. Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  6. I’m Not There

  7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  8. Colossal Youth

  9. Killer of Sheep

  10. Offside

  11. Black Book

  12. Once

  13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  14. Eastern Promises

  15. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

  16. Regular Lovers

  17. The Host

  18. Southland Tales

  19. Into the Wild

  20. Ratatouille While I do agree that Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood deserves its place near the top of the mountain, the rest of these choices and placements seem very questionable. Usually the films on a majority poll are somewhat predictable, but this listing is chaotic. I’m shocked that Juno (which was critically acclaimed) appears at #97 while Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (which was trashed by both critics and moviegoers) ranks at #18. Ratatouille which was the best reviewed Hollywood movie of the year is ranked at #20?! Yet Syndromes and a Century is ranked #4?! I’ve been covering all the critic association awards, and the top critic’s top 10 lists, and have never seen a mention of Syndromes and a Century.

WTF?! IndieWire’s Top 100 Movies Of 2007

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 20, 2007 4:06 pm EST

IndieWire polled “106 leading North American film critics,” and they came up with the Top 100 Movies of 2007. Here is the top twenty films:

  1. There Will Be Blood

  2. Zodiac

  3. No Country for Old Men

  4. Syndromes and a Century

  5. Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  6. I’m Not There

  7. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  8. Colossal Youth

  9. Killer of Sheep

  10. Offside

  11. Black Book

  12. Once

  13. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  14. Eastern Promises

  15. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

  16. Regular Lovers

  17. The Host

  18. Southland Tales

  19. Into the Wild

  20. Ratatouille While I do agree that Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood deserves its place near the top of the mountain, the rest of these choices and placements seem very questionable. Usually the films on a majority poll are somewhat predictable, but this listing is chaotic. I’m shocked that Juno (which was critically acclaimed) appears at #97 while Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (which was trashed by both critics and moviegoers) ranks at #18. Ratatouille which was the best reviewed Hollywood movie of the year is ranked at #20?! Yet Syndromes and a Century is ranked #4?! I’ve been covering all the critic association awards, and the top critic’s top 10 lists, and have never seen a mention of Syndromes and a Century.

  21. There Will Be Blood

  22. Zodiac

  23. No Country for Old Men

  24. Syndromes and a Century

  25. Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  26. I’m Not There

  27. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  28. Colossal Youth

  29. Killer of Sheep

  30. Offside

  31. Black Book

  32. Once

  33. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

  34. Eastern Promises

  35. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

  36. Regular Lovers

  37. The Host

  38. Southland Tales

  39. Into the Wild

  40. Ratatouille

While I do agree that Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood deserves its place near the top of the mountain, the rest of these choices and placements seem very questionable. Usually the films on a majority poll are somewhat predictable, but this listing is chaotic. I’m shocked that Juno (which was critically acclaimed) appears at #97 while Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (which was trashed by both critics and moviegoers) ranks at #18. Ratatouille which was the best reviewed Hollywood movie of the year is ranked at #20?! Yet Syndromes and a Century is ranked #4?! I’ve been covering all the critic association awards, and the top critic’s top 10 lists, and have never seen a mention of Syndromes and a Century.