The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Comments (0) By Robert Wilonsky and Jim Ridley and Luke Y. Thompson and Scott Foundas and Judith Lewis and Ella Taylor Wednesday, Dec 26 2007

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It's a pity more people didn't see I Know Who KIlled Me (with Lindsay Lohan).

Darfur Now is one of two 2007 films about genocide in Sudan.

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9. Meryl Streep. Yes, I know, but here's one superstar who knows how to play second fiddle without commandeering the show. In 2007, Streep redeemed two bad movies: first as the ruthless CIA foreign-operations honcho (Anna Wintour in bad twinsets) who blows off Reese Witherspoon in Rendition; then as her inverse, a liberal veteran journalist in Lions for Lambs firing hard questions at Tom Cruise's presidential wannabe. Cruise wasn't half bad either.

10. And last but never least, Peter O'Toole, a.k.a. Anton Ego, the desiccated food critic in Ratatouille who's seen it all and likes none of it until a bunch of culinary rats converts him, prompting the mea culpa speech that surely all filmmakers who have been burned one too many times by movie critics can recite by heart. Take that, us!