Peter Travers' Best and Worst Movies of 2007

The directing Oscar that has eluded Sidney Lumet, 83, for half a century of classics, from 12 Angry Men and Fail-Safe through Network, Dog Day Afternoon and The Verdict, should be his by divine right for this long day's journey into family dysfunction. When brothers, superbly played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke, plan a no-victim robbery of their parents' jewelry store, things go explosively wrong. Lumet takes a first-rate script by Kelly Masterson and keeps it popping.

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