Last week, CT Movies posted its list of the ten “most redeeming” films of the past year. Today, we posted “The 2007 Critics’ Choice Awards” — and, as one of the participating critics, I am happy to say that I not only love some of the finalists myself, but I at least like all of them, to one degree or another. That isn’t always the case!
(Though I would disagree with the claim that the musical remake of Hairspray “never takes itself too seriously” — if only because the pious, stuffy civil-rights song is oddly out of sync with the rest of the movie’s fizzy anarchic spirit. If it weren’t for that, or the miscasting of John Travolta in the role created by Divine and Harvey Fierstein, this film would be higher on my own list of faves. And I say all that here and now because I never got around to blogging or reviewing the film when it first came out.)
Each of us CT Movies critics also got to write a blurb on one film that we wish had made the list, so I picked Seth Gordon’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary that I have not otherwise reviewed. (It didn’t come to Vancouver until just before Christmas, and it played here for only one week, and I’m probably lucky that I found time to see it at all!)
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