A lacklustre first half plagues Assayas’ globetrotting ‘thriller’ about corporate and personal manipulation, but it gets better and features Asia Argento in a strong performance.
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Boarding Gate (2007)
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Tag / 2007
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You, the Living (2007)
The second instalment of Andersson’s absurdist ‘Living’ trilogy is a gentler but no less incisive take on the beauty and doldrums of human existence.
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Afternoon (2007)
Schanelec’s film here works like an outdoorsy chamber piece, based on Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, and shot with the kind of abstract and fluid ambiguity that has characterised most of her fascinating output.
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Youth Without Youth (2007)
One of Coppola’s weakest efforts in what is a heavy-handed and muddling mess of a film, despite the good performance by Tim Roth.
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Not just P.T. Anderson’s finest film to date, but one of the greatest works of the 2000s decade – this is a cinematic masterpiece in every sense of the word.
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Munyurangabo (2007)
Too loosely-structured to work compellingly, though some may find this restrained take on the psychological impact of the Rwandan genocide on two boys (of opposing ethnicity) poetic.
Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)
The best movie of the franchise and a very high watermark of 2000s action-thrillers.
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)
Julian Schnabel’s work here is sublime and powerful, so is his lead actor Mathieu Amalric in one of 2007’s finest performances.
Secret of the Grain, The (2007)
A staggering masterwork about an extended Arab family living in France—their intimate lives, their buzzing families, the wonderful food, and their hopes and struggles.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Continue reading →This slow-burn crime-thriller is arguably the Coens’ finest achievement.
