Making a list

We're making a list and we're checking it twice. While my cosmology allows for more than a mere Ten Best List, that is what the Houston Society of Film Critics require. So on my list are about 20-plus killer films from 2007: This list will get shorter as time goes on, but for now it stands as a document of the year's top cinematic accomplishments.

• I'm Not There
  
• Into the WIld
  
• Deathproof
  
• Lars and the Real Girl
  
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  
• No Country For Old Men
  
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  
• There Will Be Blood
  
• Sweeney Todd
  
• No End in Sight
  
• Gone Baby Gone
  
• Lake of Fire
  
• Superbad
  
• Hot Fuzz
  
• Michael Clayton
  
• Zodiac
  
• Once
  
• The Bourne Ultimatum
  
• Atonement
  
• Juno
  
• Darjeeling Limited
  
• Lust, Caution
  

Of course the best line of the year may have been in a throwaway movie like Die Hard 4: Live Free of Die Hard courtesy of Justin Long. Let's see Diablo Cody write a Bruce Willis adventure script. I've already revised this list twice, and there's still a number of films - Eastern Promises, Rescue Dawn, Beowulf, Redacted, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Control - that are up there, just not in the toppermost.