	NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN DIRECTED BY COHEN BROTHERS JOSH BROLIN,TOMMY LEE JONES,JAVIER BARDEM The best movie of 2007, a briliant movie of revenge and redemption. It starts with a drug deal gone wrong and a missing case of money. This act unleashes a man who is nothing less than a force of nature, of pure violnce who leaves bodies in his wake. Tomy Lee Jones is an older lawman who comes to realize that his time at this game has passed and he is outclassed and unprepared for this new wave of senseless crime and violence. Great script, acting,dialogue.
	EASTERN PROMISES DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG VIGGO MORTENSEN,NAOMI WATTS,VINCENT CASSELL Another excellent movie from Cronenberg, following History Of Violence, a movie about the Russian mafia in London. Naomi Watts is a midwife nurse in a London hospital when a pregnant Russian woman comes in. She dies and Watts finds a diary in Russian, she wants to read it but must get it translated. This act gets her involved in the machinations of a powerful mafia family and their enforcer, Viggo Mortensen.
	GONE BABY GONE DIRECTED BY BEN AFFLECK One of the best movies of 2007, and a great directorial debut for Ben Affleck, a profound and troubling story of a kidnapped little girl, by the writer of Mystic River, and offers even more questions about the moral choices faced by the people in the movie. In his best performance, Casey Affleck is a private investigator who is looking into the case for the mother. A very good drama that really makes you think about the moral choices taken.
	RENDITION JAKE GYLLANHALL,REESE WITHERSPOON Rendition is a policy of the American government and the CIA to apprehend people who they suspect as being terrorists, wihout warrant, and shipping them to foreign countries, where thet can be tortured without regard to the Geneva Conventions. This is a very good dramatic depiction of one case, albeit fiction, although it resembles the Arrar case. In fact, the movie was released onlt weeks after he testified before congress by videoconference, as he was still on their no fly list. In the movie, an Arab American is abducted at the Washington airport by the CIA and flown to a middle east country (Syria?) where he is interogated under torture suspected of being part of a local terrorist cell.
	LIONS FOR LAMBS DIRECTED BY ROBERT REDFORD ROBERT REDFORD,MERYL STREEP,TOM CRUISE A very good movie about political activism and apathy, and the role of the American government in Afghanistan. Tom Cruise gives a powerful performance as a Republican Senator who forcefully propounds the government policy to newswoman Meryl Streep. The movie shows the lack of understanding and the failure of the policy in Afghanistan, and the failure of the press to hold the government to task for its policies in Iraq, Afghanistan and at home.
	DEFINITELY,MAYBE Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Derek Luke, Kevin Kline Ryan Reynolds has to teel his daughter the story of how he met her mother, only, he will tell her about the three women he knew, change all the names and let her guess who it was. The story is then told in retrospective in a linear fashion of his experinces in the 1990’s working for the Clinton campaign in New York. The script is very smart and witty, and the performances are all very good.
	ATONEMENT KEIRA KNIGHTLY,JAMES MCAVOY One of the better movies of 2007, albeit far from the best, a story of how a lie told by someone who did not realize the implications of what she has done, destroyed the lives of two people. A good drama wth good performances, it drags a bit in the second half, but the ending is very good.
	CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR DIRECTED BY MIKE NICHOLS TOM HANKS,JULIA ROBERTS,PHILLIP KAUFMAN Tom Hanks continues his tradition of quality,thoughtful movies in a witty movie about Texas congressman Charles Wilson, and his fascination and obsession with the war in Afghanistan. At the height of the cold war, he saw this as a frontline to confront and defeat the Soviet Union, by arming and supplying the mujahaddin. Aided by a wealthy Texas woman, he forms an unlikely alliance between Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Israel to funnel millions of dollars of weapons to the resistance.
	CLOVERFILED Produced by JJ Abrams, and filmed largely with handheld cameras from the perspective of the people on the ground, it is a new and interesting approach to a monster movie, in this case, a horrific attack on New York.
	BLACK BOOK DIRECTED BY PAUL VERHOEVEN DUTCH/GERMAN WITH SUBTITLES One of the best movies of 2007, it is about the Dutch resistance in the last years of the war. Rachel Stein is accompanying her family to the free part of Holland when they are intercepted by the Germans and everyone is killed. She escapes and joins the resistance, agreeing to change her identity and infiltrate the occupation administration. She appears to work for the resistance but is more interested in getting revenge against the SS officer who was reponsible for her family’s murder.
	THE NAMESAKE An Indian movie, about a couple who move from India to new York, and the generational differences in an Indo American family.
	AMERICAN GANGSTER Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Josh Brolin, Lymari Nadal, RZA, Ted Levine, Ruby Dee, Armand Assante, Carla Gugino The true story of Frank Lucas, who rose to power in the drug business in New York, and became preeminant by building a heroin pipeline from Thailand to the US, using the US Army to smuggle drugs back in coffins from Vietnam. Russel Crowe plays the detective Richie Roberts, who finally ends his career.
	FEAST OF LOVE Cast: Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell, Alexa Davalos, Toby Hemingway, Fred Ward, Jane Alexander, Billy Burke, Erika Marozsan Director: Robert Benton This is a very good movie about relationships and centers around three such, and their progression. Very good script with a great cast and directed by Robert Benton.
	HE WAS A QUIET MAN Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy, Sascha Knopf, Jamison Jones Director: Frank Capello A very good and quirky movie, reminding me of Edmond, about a frustrated man who fanatasizes about killing everyone he works with or blowing up the building, until another frustrated employee comes in one day and does the same thing. The most brilliant performance by Christian Slater.
	WAITRESS Cast: Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Cheryl Hines, Adrienne Shelly, Jeremy Sisto, Andy Griffith Director: Adrienne Shelly A delightful,quirky comedy about a waitress in a small diner who puts everything into the pies she makes, as her home life is a disaster.
	BREACH Cast: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan Director: Billy Ray The true story of the entrapment of the spy Robert Hansenn, one of the worst cases of espionage in US history. Brilliant performance by Chris Cooper.
	THE KINGDOM Cast: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Chris Cooper, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Piven, Ashraf Barhom Director: Peter Berg After a terrible terrorist attack on an American compound in Saudi Arabia, an FBI forensic investigation team is allowd to go to the kingdom and aid the Saudi police in tracking the terror cell. Very suspenseful and explosive action.