At the end of every year, throughout the month of December I have the ubiquitous “top ten” list conversations with many friends. I admit I have never really understood the desire to create one, which is not to say I haven’t made a few of my own. A list such as this seems to be much more telling about the person who made it. However, I wonder if it is really as “telling” as one may think. It only tells the reader what one liked without telling us the totality of what one has engaged in. A reader isn’t offered the larger picture of discriminating (or indiscriminating) behavior and practice. It would be an interesting study to compare all of one particular art form someone has engaged with to what is selected as part of a top ten and why. Now that I have briefly discussed my perspectives on top ten lists, I am – yes, you guessed it - offering a list. However, this is not a top ten list. It is a list of my favorite film discoveries of 2007 and it is not a top ten.

I have read a great deal about Sicko and much more about what others have thought about it. I have read the impact it has made on how people view the health care system here in the United States of America. Most of these viewers seem