It was my immediate inclination, and two subsequent viewings have confirmed solidly in my mind that P.T. Anderson’s striking turn-of-the-20th-century requiem for human decency was the best film of 2007. The score from Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is both stirring and deeply frightening, imbuing the images with the same mystical power that Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind brought to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Centered around a powerhouse performance by Daniel Day-Lewis (is there another kind?), There Will Be Blood is raw, introspective American filmmaking at its very best. (Awards Screener DVD)