Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Male

By PopMatters Staff

From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007. [9 January 2008]

He’s Lost Control

By Jennifer Makowsky

The kids who grew up in the '90s had the haunted Kurt Cobain; my generation had the tormented Ian Curtis. [25 August 2008]

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Control

By Matt Mazur

What could have easily ended up as a humorless exercise in hipster excess turns out warm and snappy. [12 November 2007]

Control

By Cynthia Fuchs

Despite occasional strange and impossibly intimate reveries, the film lapses frequently into biopickish shorthand. [7 November 2007]

Short Ends and Leader: Ode to Joy: Joy Division / Control (2007)