Best Movies 2007 #20-#11

#20 - Waitress - Keri Russell gives a great performance in one of the nicest movies of the year, a sort of grown-up version of Juno.

#19 - 3:10 To Yuma - A re-make of a forgotten Western movie, 3:10 stars Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in one of the most intense cat and mouse games in recent memory.

#18 - American Gangster - This movie has gotten a lot of comparisons to Scarface, but I actually think it's much better. Russell Crowe stars in this one as well, along with Denzel Washington in Russell Crowe's take on Martin Scorcese's genre.

#17 - Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - The Potter movies just keep getting better and better. How many times can you see a 2 plus hour movie that seems like it's too short and skips over too many details?

#16 - Shoot 'Em Up - The most intense and hilarious action movie in years takes a Tarantino sense of humor and smacks it into a Jason Statham type movie starring the always brilliant Clive Owen.

#15 - Superbad - The third (and remarkably least) of the Apatow pictures this year, Superbad features the brilliant Michael Cera and the reliable Jonah Hill in a quest movie to buy booze illegally in order to score some ass only to have real life get in the way of the plan.

#14 - I Am Legend - A quick and to the point action movie that tells a great story and doesn't drag it's feet doing it. Will Smith picks yet another great script and should give his agent a raise.

#13 - Charlie Wilson's War - Aaron Sorkin's screenplay cracks as some of the world's finest actors take on the sharpest dialogue of the year. Phillip Seymour Hoffman got an Oscar nod for his role in this movie and in a weaker year he would have easily won.

#12 - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - The best satire in years (not that this is saying much), walk Hard inserts it's lead Forrest Gump style into the history of rock n roll. John C Reilly is perfect as always and the music is gutbustingly awesome.

#11 - Stardust - Neil Gaiman provides the story for the best sci fi movie of the year, as this is also one of the funniest movies in the genre since The Princess Bride.