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Syndromes and a Century tops Reverse Shot’s Best of 2007

Indiewire's review crew (Reverse Shot's Michael Koresky, Kristi Mitsuda, Nicolas Rapold, Jeff Reichert, Michael Joshua Rowin, Andrew Tracy, Elbert Ventura, and Chris Wisniewski) have tabulated their favorite films of the year – a top ten list worth checking out and in my case serving as a reminder to get my hands on picks 1 and 10 (titles that are difficult to get a hold of). You have the three American classic heavyweights from Fincher, the Coen's and PTA that are jousting on many other critic fav. lists, we also have two art-house favs in Todd Haynes and Cristian Mungiu on the top 10er. Philippe Garrel's black and white low budget Regular Lovers, Tsai Ming-liang's bed-moving and helping out a stranger I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and the poignant, soccer stadium affair in Jafar Panahi's Offside  and Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth round out the list.


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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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