2007 New York Film Critics Online Winners

Top 11 Films:
Atonement
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Darjeeling Limited
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
I'm Not There
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
Persepolis
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
There Will Be Blood


Picture: There Will Be Blood and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Director: P.T. Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Actress: Julie Christie (Away from Her)
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)
Screenplay: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited)
Cinematography: Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
Music/Score: Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood)
Foreign Language: Persepolis and The Lives of Others
Documentary: Sicko
Animated Feature: Persepolis
Debut Director: Sarah Polley (Away from Her)
Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page (Juno)
Ensemble Cast: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Participants: Ethan Alter, Chris Barsanti, Fred and Mary Ann Brussat, Marcy Dermansky, Edward Douglas, David Edelstein, Jurgen Fauth, Ed Gonzalez, Susan Granger, Ron Henriques, Brandon Judell, Harvey Karten, Glenn Kenny, Kurt Loder, Maitland McDonagh, Prairie Miller, Scott Nash, Michelle Orange, Louis Proyect, Rex Reed, Julian Roman, Chuck Schwartz, Dana Stevens, Armond White, Kam Williams, William Wolf, Stephanie Zacharek

So, as the year comes to an end, the NYFCO releases their top films list. (I linked them all up to cin-o-matic.) To be blunt: There Will Be Blood has robbed the show, and I really cannot wait for it - my top ten list will probably come out after watching Persepolis and that film; in the meantime, I am working on a few more reviews before the year ends. A great selection of some of the best films of the year are available over at Slant, and it was released today: 2007 Year in Film

The Best of Cin-o-Matic: No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men: 9.1

Well, there's no getting around it: No Country for Old Men is the most critically appraised film of the year, getting a 9.0 on cin-o-matic - higher than last year's Pan's Labyrinth; but less than Army of Shadows (9.5) and Killer of Sheep (9.8!). The former, never before released in the U.S, was my top pick for the best film of last year, and the latter, never thearatically released since 1977, is, as of now, my top pick for the best film of the year as well. Nevertheless, I approach No Country with great excitement - a review will be posted soon, as well as my ultimate thoughts on Ridley Scott's overrated American Gangster.

Review Overload/Cin-o-matic

Given that you can already see the same logo on one of the bars on the left, I think it's no longer necessary to share my opinion: that it is the best damn movie site on the web. (Better than Yahoo, Metacritic and etc...) As an editor of the site, I simply just like to pass it around and have people, at the very least, just give it a look; people often underrate it via the fact that "it only started in 2004" or other similarly idiotic reasonings. Anyway, enjoy!


(And below you'll find somewhat of a review overload of both films just on DVD and films still somewhat in theaters.)