Best Movies Of 2007 #30-#21

#30 - Eastern Promises - The latest screen pairing of David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is a crackling mafia film with great performances and a scene set in a sauna that is among the most memorable of the year.

#29 - Once - If not for Juno and Walk Hard, this movie would run away with the Best Soundtrack award for the year. The movie's story isn't all that great, but the characters and especially the music make this film great.

#28 - Live Free Or Die Hard - After a lackluster third movie in the series, I had written the Die Hard movies off as done, but Live Free Or Die Hard is hilarious and has plenty of ridiculous action to satisfy the people who don't get the jokes.

#27 - Across The Universe - A trippy musical that envisions Beatles songs as telling a story of a group of friends living in the last 60's. Great visuals and great music throughout.

#26 - Hot Fuzz - I liked Shaun Of The Dead better, but Hot Fuzz is also hilarious, with great comedic moments sending up American action films.

#25 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Easily the darkest musical ever made, Tim Burton teams up with his usual suspects Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to make an incredibly entertaining bloodbath of a musical.

#24 - Ratatouille - Pixar and Brad Bird score yet another hit and yet another Academy Award win with this clever story of a rat in a gourmet resteraunt.

#23 - In The Valley Of Elah - Paul Haggis' follow-up to the vastly over-rated Crash, In The Valley Of Elah is a sharp and gut-churning drama that only barely lets it's foot off the gas at the end, keeping it from a higher score.

#22 - I'm Not There - Another weird movie from Todd Haynes, I'm Not There uses a series of actors and one actress to tell the life story of Bob Dylan, though Dylan is never actually named. Cate Blanchett plays Dylan for most of the movie and does the best job, remarkably.

#21 - Michael Clayton - Great performances permeate from every corner of the screen in this sharp and engrossing 70's throwback starring Tilda Swinton in an Academy Award winning performance and George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson in roles that could have won if this wasn't such an extraordinary year.