The 8 Best Movies of 2007, Ranked

2007 might be the best movie year this century. Three films tie at 9.3. One of them has to lose, and somebody's going to be mad.

Three films tied at 9.3. The one on top will start arguments.

1. 8
   Eastern Promises (2007)8.7

   Viggo's quiet menace beats every loud villain from 2007.

   8.7 movie.guru score and 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Cronenberg swapped body horror for tattoos and whispered threats, and turned a reported $27M into $56.1 million worldwide.
2. 7
   Gone Baby Gone (2007)8.7

   Ben Affleck the director outplayed Ben Affleck the actor.

   94% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.7 score. Casey Affleck carries a Boston mystery that made just $20.3 million domestic. Criminally underseen.
3. 6
   Juno (2007)8.9

   Great movie. The dialogue is trying very, very hard.

   8.9 score and $232.4 million worldwide on a reported $7.5M budget. The Guru's Take is 7.7, because nobody in real life talks like a quirky greeting card.
4. 5
   Hot Fuzz (2007)9.0

   Funniest action movie of the century, and it's only #5.

   Audiences beat 94% of movies here and the Guru's Take is 9.1. Edgar Wright hid a whodunit inside a suspiciously polite village. $80.6 million worldwide.
5. 4
   The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)9.2

   The shaky cam earned it. Every single shake.

   9.2 score, an A CinemaScore, $442.8 million worldwide. The Waterloo Station sequence still makes modern spy movies look like they're standing still.
6. 3
   Taare Zameen Par (2007)9.3

   The one on this list you skipped. Fix that tonight.

   Audiences beat 99% of movies here, the highest on this list. It made $1,223,869 domestic, so odds are you missed Aamir Khan's kindest film.
7. 2
   There Will Be Blood (2007)9.3

   Daniel Day-Lewis is untouchable. The movie still finishes second.

   Metacritic 93 and a Guru's Take of 9.5, the highest here. Tied with #1 at 9.3 on movie.guru score. The data broke the tie. Take it up with the data.
8. 1
   No Country for Old Men (2007)9.3

   The best movie of 2007. Yes, over Daniel Plainview.

   9.3 score, 92 on Metacritic, and 1,221,171 IMDb votes, the most on this list. Javier Bardem's haircut alone deserves its own ranking.

$2,207 says the top comment is a Daniel Day-Lewis fan demanding a recount.

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