The
Best and Worst of 2007
2007,
you might say, was the year of revelations at the cinema,
a year of surprises, startling discoveries and spectacular
achievements. But that is not necessarily a positive prospect,
either. Saturated by ambition and ambivalence, the movies
that occupied theater screens in the 12 months of the calendar
year offered high stylization, great energy and loud explosions,
and payoffs too brief and momentary to make many of them deserving
of that output. The trend was not one limited to the more
prolific of box office competitors, either; like a disease
that transcends culture and social divides, no one, including
the Indies or the art-house flicks, were safe from the mediocrity
that spread through the crops.
Posted March 25, 2008 |

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