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Movies 2007:
Reviews of the latest films.
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- The Top 10 Movies of 2007 A man-eating river beast, a rat who cooks, and the Cannes-winning film you just might get to see after all.
Dec. 28, 2007 - My So-Called Iranian Life Marjane Satrapi's brilliant Persepolis.
Dec. 24, 2007 - There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson's deranged masterpiece.
Dec. 24, 2007 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Revenge is a dish best served in short-crust pastry.
Dec. 21, 2007 - Charlie Wilson's War Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts save Afghanistan from the Russkies.
Dec. 20, 2007 - Youth Without Youth I kind of love Francis Ford Coppola's shaggy, meandering movie.
Dec. 14, 2007 - I Am Legend Will Smith roams a post-apocalyptic New York City.
Dec. 13, 2007 - The Golden Compass Philip Pullman's subversive fantasy gets put through the Hollywood blandification machine.
Dec. 6, 2007 - Superpregnant How Juno is Knocked Up from the girl's point of view.
Dec. 5, 2007 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly A stroke victim's memoir gets a delicate, unsentimental adaptation.
Nov. 30, 2007 - Princess MasterCard There's something rotten about Enchanted.
Nov. 29, 2007 - Is It Me, Babe? Todd Haynes' fractured portrait of Bob Dylan.
Nov. 20, 2007 - Beowulf A review in verse.
Nov. 16, 2007 - Margot at the Wedding Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Noah Baumbach's latest neurotic talkfest.
Nov. 15, 2007 - Lions for Lambs Cruise-Redford-Streep in an earnest post-9/11 melodrama.
Nov. 9, 2007 - No Country for Old Men Why the new Coen brothers' masterpiece disappoints.
Nov. 8, 2007 - Bee Movie Everything about this Jerry Seinfeld creation needed more thought.
Nov. 2, 2007 - American Gangster A star-studded epic that doesn't bring the heat.
Nov. 1, 2007 - Evil Philip Seymour Hoffman And other joys of Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Oct. 25, 2007 - Reservation Road If a movie runs over a kid, it has to earn the right to do so.
Oct. 19, 2007 - Extrajudicially Blonde Reese Witherspoon in Rendition.
Oct. 18, 2007 - She's the Silent Type Ryan Gosling falls in love with a sex toy in Lars and the Real Girl.
Oct. 12, 2007 - Elizabeth: The Golden Age Just like a 16th-century episode of The Hills.
Oct. 11, 2007 - Movie Love Rare screenings of Béla Tarr and this year's Cannes-winner from Romania.
Oct. 5, 2007 - Michael Clayton George Clooney anchors a solid legal thriller.
Oct. 4, 2007 - Lust, Caution Ang Lee's brilliant sexual politics.
Sept. 28, 2007 - Twee Time Wes Anderson goes to India in The Darjeeling Limited.
Sept. 27, 2007 - Into the Wild A borderline unforgivable decision mars a worthy movie.
Sept. 21, 2007 - You Can Give a Movie a Long Title but That Doesn't Mean It's Good The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford reviewed.
Sept. 20, 2007 - In the Valley of Elah Paul Haggis' shaggy but powerful Iraq war drama.
Sept. 14, 2007 - Eastern Promises The metaphysics of David Cronenberg's violence.
Sept. 13, 2007 - Lactating Hookers And other low points of Shoot 'Em Up.
Sept. 7, 2007 - Hoagie Shack The gentle kinkiness of I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With.
Sept. 6, 2007 - Down and Out in Williamsburg Ethan Hawke and Justin Theroux serve up angsty love in The Hottest State and Dedication.
Aug. 24, 2007 - The Nanny Diaries Not worth hiring a babysitter for.
Aug. 23, 2007 - Invasion of the Iraq War Metaphors Nicole Kidman's sci-fi movie gets lost in a quagmire.
Aug. 17, 2007 - Superbad See it for Michael Cera.
Aug. 16, 2007 - 2 Days in Paris Julie Delpy's directorial debut is Before Sunset by way of Annie Hall. And that's OK.
Aug. 9, 2007 - Bourne Again Paul Greengrass knows how to direct an action movie.
Aug. 2, 2007 - Enter the Donut The Simpsons Movie reviewed.
July 27, 2007 - Iron-Hearted Chef Abigail Breslin steals No Reservations from Catherine Zeta-Boring.
July 26, 2007 - Sunspotting Danny Boyle's Sunshine just misses sci-fi greatness.
July 20, 2007 - Not a Drag John Travolta in Hairspray.
July 19, 2007 - Emotional Rescue Go see the new Warner Herzog movie.
July 13, 2007 - The Sorcerer's Stones Harry Potter hits puberty.
July 10, 2007 - Et Tu, Babycakes The results of Slate's action-movie one-liner contest.
July 6, 2007 - Long, Incoherent, and Kind of Fun The accidental charm of Michael Bay's Transformers.
July 2, 2007 - Sick Joke Michael Moore gathers our rage at America's health-care system.
June 29, 2007 - Evan Almighty A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love.
June 22, 2007 - A (Mostly) Mighty Heart The Mariane Pearl movie can't escape the shadow of Angelina Jolie.
June 21, 2007 - Able Was I Ere I Saw Alba The pneumatic star can't save Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
June 15, 2007 - Ocean's 13 The movie as luxury brand.
June 8, 2007 - Dancing in the Dark Crazy Love documents an unusual courtship.
June 1, 2007 - Unplanned Parenthood What Knocked Up gets wrong about women.
May 31, 2007 - Bug and Paprika Two new movies about mind control.
May 25, 2007 - Booty Nights The jolly swashbucklers of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
May 24, 2007 - Mocha Zombies 28 Weeks Later reveals the horror of too much Starbucks.
May 10, 2007 - The Bittersweet Hereafter Adrienne Shelly's Waitress.
May 4, 2007 - Killer Licorice The new Spider-Man has one too many villains.
May 3, 2007 - Hot Fuzz Buzz Imagine an Agatha Christie novel directed by Michael Bay.
April 27, 2007 - When a Horse Isn't Just a Horse Zoo's lyrical reflection on bestiality.
April 24, 2007 - Hello, Mr. Gosling A mainstream star is born in Fracture.
April 19, 2007 - Free-Range Chick Molly Shannon in Mike White's Year of the Dog.
April 13, 2007 - Like Vomit But in a good way: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie.
April 12, 2007 - Tube Boobs A brilliant sendup of the television industry.
April 6, 2007 - Bloody Good Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse.
April 6, 2007 - Black Sheep A legendary film from 1977 gets its due.
March 30, 2007 - Against Sequins Will Ferrell in the ice-skating comedy Blades of Glory.
March 29, 2007 - Top Gun The political revenge fantasies of Shooter.
March 23, 2007 - Chris Rock's Buppie Angst I Think I Love My Wife should have been funnier.
March 16, 2007 - Beastly Good The Host is a flawless monster movie.
March 15, 2007 - Curried Rice Krispies A cross-cultural coming-of-age in The Namesake.
March 9, 2007 - A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love The battle epic 300.
March 9, 2007 - No Guts, No Gory David Fincher's Zodiac is surprisingly cerebral.
March 2, 2007 - It's Hard Out There for a Ho The puzzling sexual games of Black Snake Moan.
March 1, 2007 - Battlefield Earth Days of Glory and Grbavica explore war and its aftermath.
Feb. 16, 2007 - That's the Look of Love Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant in Music and Lyrics.
Feb. 14, 2007 - Eurotrash Schoolboy The young Lecter in Hannibal Rising.
Feb. 9, 2007 - Desperate Bureaucrats The Lives of Others is the best surveillance movie since The Conversation.
Feb. 8, 2007 - Diane Freakin' Keaton Why can't she find better roles?
Feb. 2, 2007 - Factory Reject A tepid biopic of Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick.
Feb. 2, 2007 - Men With Guns The absurdly macho pyrotechnics of Smokin' Aces.
Jan. 25, 2007 - The State of the Oscar Forget the Dreamgirls snub, what about Volver?
Jan. 23, 2007 - Further Notes on a Scandal The danger of unreliable narrators.
Jan. 19, 2007 - It's a Hard-Knock Life The queasy morality of Russian adoption in The Italian.
Jan. 19, 2007 - Thai Feud Imagine a Western directed by Todd Haynes and Sam Peckinpah.
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