2007 Top Ten

Every year, the KFS likes to offer you a compendium of opinions as to the best films distributed the previous year.
We'd like to think that, in our own Little Theatre sort of way, we've helped broaden the cinematic horizons by doing our part to bring at least a few of these titles to town and provide viewers with their only chance to see them locally and on the big screen.
In 2007 our lineup of titles included --
Old Joy
Army of Shadows
Fast Food Nation
Sweet Land
Volver
Venus
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Black Book
The Lives of Others
Away From Her
Once
La Vie en Rose
Paprika
In The Shadow Of The Moon

If you'd like to submit your Top Ten titles to this page (with or without your name) we'd be delighted to add them. We're sure the world would be equally delighted to see your selections as well.

Stephanie Zacharek / Salon.com
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. (tie) No End in Sight / Redacted

Stephen Rea / The Philadelphia Inquirer

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

Glenn Kenny / Premiere Magazine
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

Mick LaSalle / San Francisco Chronicle

1 . Waitress
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Assassination of Jesse James
4. Atonement
5. Redacted
6. Dan in Real Life
7. Flanders
8. Golden Door
9. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
10. Revolution Summer

J. R. Jones / Chicago Reader

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

Michael Sragow / Baltimore Sun

1. Ratatouille

2. The Lives of Others

3. Killer of Sheep

4. There Will Be Blood

5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

6. No End in Sight

7. Pan's Labyrinth

8. Starting Out in the Evening

9. No Country for Old Men
10. Atonement

Richard Schickel / Time Magazine
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

James Sanford / The Kalamazoo Gazette

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Control

3. Juno

4. Lust, Caution

5. Into the Wild

6. Atonement

7. Hot Fuzz

8. The Wind That Shakes the Barley

9. No Country for Old Men
10. Lars and the Real Girl

Stephen Holden / The New York Times

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 Univers
10. Juno

A.O. Scott / The New York Times

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

2. Ratatouille

3. (tie) There Will Be Blood / Sweeney Todd

4. I'm Not There

5. No End in Sight

6. (tie) 12:08 Easat of Bucharest / Live-In Maid

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

8. (tie) The Lives of Others / Michael Clayton

9 (tie) The Savages / Away From Her
10. (tie) Knocked Up / Superbad / Juno

The American Film Institute : A-Z ...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
Knocked Up
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
The Savages
There Will Be Blood

Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun-Times

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

David Edelstein / NPR
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterly
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. (tie) Ratatouille / Persepolis
10. Grace is Gone

Kenneth Turan / Los Angeles Times
1. Atonement
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. (tie) Into Great Silence / Terror's Advocate
4. (tie) Lady Chatterly / 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

Lawrence Toppman / The Charlotte Observer
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

Ty Burr / The Boston Globe

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

Claudia Puig / USA Today

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

Ann Hornaday / Washington Post

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

Manohla Dargis / The New York Times
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Zodiac
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
4. Colossal Youth
5. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
6. Into Great Silence
7. Lady Chatterly
8. Monika
9. Paprika
10. Superbad

David Ansen / Newsweek Magazine
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

Wesley Morris / Boston Globe

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

Stephen Hunter / Washington Post

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

Shawn Levy / Portland Oregonian

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

Marjorie Baumgarten / Austin Chronicle

1. There Will Be Blood

2. The Lives of Others

3. Persepolis

4. No Country for Old Men

5. The Savages

6. Away From Her

7. I'm Not There

8. Sicko

9. Atonement
10. Eastern Promises

Michael Phillips / The Chicago Tribune

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. (tie) Knocked Up / Juno

Peter Rainer / The Christian Science Monitor
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

Scott Tobias / The Onion

1. No Country for Old Men

2. There Will Be Blood

3. Zodiac

4. The Assassination of Jesse James

5. Knocked Up

6. Lake Of Fire

7. Once

8. Joshua

9. Black Book
10. Syndromes and a Century

Owen Glieberman / Entertainment Weekly

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

Peter Travers / Rolling Stone

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. (tie) Knocked Up / Juno

Richard Corliss / Time
1. No Country for Old Men

2. The Lives of Others

3. Killer of Sheep

4. Atonement

5. Sweeney Todd

6. Persepolis

7. No End in Sight

8. In the Valley of Elah

9. Waitress
10. Beowulf

Joe Morgenstern / Wall Street Journal

1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

2. Into the Wild

3. There Will Be Blood

4. Atonement

5. Once

6. Juno

7. Lars and the Real Girl

8. Manufactured Landscapes

9. Once
10. Waitress

Lisa Schwartzbaum / Entertainment Weekly

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 and 2 Days

9. The Assassination of Jesse James
10. Knocked Up

Andrew O'Hehir / Salon.com

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 Weeks and 2 Days

7. Red Road

8. Forever

9. Zodiac
10. Killer of Sheep

Tom Charity / CNN

1. There Will Be Blood

2. Into the Wild

3. Zodiac

4. The Assassination of Jesse James

5. No Country for Old Men

6. Once

7. Black Book

8. Persepolis

9. Syndromes and a Century
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

The National Board of Review // A-Z ...

1. The Assassination of Jesse James

2. Atonement

3. The Bourne Ultimatum

4. The Bucket List

5. Into the Wild

6. Juno

7. The Kite Runner

8. Lars and the Real Girl

9. Michael Clayton
10. Sweeney Todd

Pat Collins / WWOR TV

1. Norbit

2. I Know Who Killed Me

3. Evan Almighty

4. The Mist

5. The Number 23

6. Mr. Magorium's Magical Emporium

7. The Heartbreak Kid
8. Evening

9. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
10. Hannibal Rising

11. Rush Hour 3

12. Because I Said So

13. Daddy Day Camp

14. Georgia Rule

15. Code Name: The Cleaner

16. Premonition

( I guess there were so many good movies she couldn't limit herself to just 10 ).