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Critics Pick Top Flicks for '07

Juno, I'm Not There, and No Country take top spots

(Newser) - Film critics offer their top picks for 2007, ranging from quirky dramedy ( Juno ) to drama ( Michael Clayton ) to foreign fare ( The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ).                                                  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Juno No Country for Old Men Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly : There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men I'm Not There More »

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Devil Will Make You Watch It

Crime drama could net legendary director first best directing Oscar

(Newser) - He may be 83, but in Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead , Sidney Lumet musters the “wide-awake elegance of a virtuoso half his age,” EW' s Owen Gleiberman says, producing a vivid crime melodrama critics unanimously place among the year’s best. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke play brothers whose botched robbery of their parents’ store “approaches the scope of Greek tragedy,” Slate's Dana Stevens says. More »

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