Unless you count a slight preponderance of anthropomorphic rats (mercifully fewer than last year’s penguins), a wavelet of features that colonized the Iraq war in order to try and pour some juice back into the ailing action picture, or the miserable box-office numbers of dozens of independent films, the only trend worth mentioning in 2007 was the unseemly war of words between print critics and bloggers, the former an endangered species and the latter an emergent group with all the testy insecurity that entails. To my mind, this battle goes nowhere, not just because sooner or later we’ll all be bloggers, but because I can’t remember a year of such across-the-board consensus in Top 10 lists on and off the Web — mine included, unranked, arbitrary and... More >>>