i decided to make my own goddamn listmaking prowess to devise my own collection of best-of's.

so, for the first time ever!

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TOP 25 FILMS of 2007
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1. No Country for Old Men
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Into the Wild
4. Hairspray
5. American Gangster
6. Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
7. Michael Clayton
8. Eastern Promises
9. The Counterfeiters
10. Across the Universe
11. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
12. Atonement
13. I'm Not There
14. Gone Baby Gone
15. Persepolis
16. Once
17. Juno
18. Hot Fuzz
19. Before the Devil Knows Your Dead
20. Lars & the Real Girl
21. Simpsons
22. Away from Her
23. The Savages
24. Enchanted
25. Grindhouse

...and you've no idea how much it pains me to admit that it PAINS me to exclude 30 Days of Night. despite its josh hartnettiness, i thought it the most terrific vampire film. ...and that all the vampires looked precisedly how i imagine backwater Finns to be! [oops. that was probably offensive to one of my v. best friends.] [[sorry.]]

[[[MEAN, BUT TRUE.]]]

...unlike the oscar nods which were just mean and unfounded...

no denzel?! no sean penn!?

moreover, though i agree with the all the winners of the categories [they all deserved it], i would like to state for the record: despite the Minnesotan Coen Bros Best Adapted Screenplay [a fantastic scripting of a fantastic novel] win, I'm a little concerned that Paul Thomas Anderson didn't win. C'mon! to take Upton Sinclair's Oil! and turn it into that... JESUS!