The British film industry was obsessed by the 1941 evacuation of Dunkirk this year: two of its most award-friendly offerings were weighty epics chronicling the nerve-flaying action (Dunkirk) and the behind-the-scenes political wranglings (Darkest Hour). More satisfying than either, though, was ...
Ranker Film Updated February 2, 2025 321.9K views 96 items Ranked By 227.2K votes 19.4K voters 121 reranks Voting Rules Only movies released in theaters in 2017. Hilarious comedies, thrilling superhero movies, smart horror films, and engaging dramas comprise the very best movies of 2017. Recei...
Scott’s film is probably the most visually influential film of the last half-century, and Blade Runner 2049 fittingly is one of the best-looking studio releases of the past decade at least. Cinematographer Roger Deakins will likely, finally, win his first Academy Award.”– Samuel R. Murrian...
Over 19K filmgoers have voted on the 90+ films on Best Movies Of 2017. Current Top 3: Thor: Ragnarok, Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
One of my main criteria for choosing the best film of the year is the way it changes me emotionally, physically. So few films have that power. “Call Me by Your Name” absolutely wrecked me. Luca Guadagnino’s swooningly romantic story of first love in the summer of 1983 is gorgeously ...
It’s the best gay film since Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.— Trey Taylor1. Lady BirdSo much of this existentialist teen journey reflects where we are in 2017: in the ways that we still argue with our parents, set lofty goals for ourselves and break all the rules our perceived ...
Without shadow of a doubt, Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time” is the best documentary feature of 2017. In the late 1970s, construction work began on a new building in Dawson City, Canada, up in the Arctic. What workers found was a treasure chest of old nitrate film reels, ...
2017 to be a peculiarity, an anomaly perhaps that housed the calamitous and downright bizarre. However, 2017 was also a year the film industry flourished. The sheer quality of movie releases would make any cinephile buzz with excitement, so let's take a look at why 2017 was such a ...
BEST OF 2017 1.Detroit– How could a film this great be such a phenomenon in the worst way? I mistakenly forecast it to equal “Do the Right Thing” in becoming a national breakthrough cultural touchstone, but I was wrong. It was scorned all over the internet by professional and non-pr...
Timothée Chalamet’s performance inCall Me by Your Namecomes to its climax at the very end of the film, in the very long take of the actor’s face as it digests and regurgitates heartbreak a million times over while the world behind him has the audacity to go on as normal. The scen...