Hilarious comedies, thrilling superhero movies, smart horror films, and engaging dramas comprise the very best movies of 2017. Receiving critical acclaim and earning millions of dollars at the box office, the best 2017 films are also some of the greatest movies of all time. What is the best ...
for that matter. Sally Hawkins sparkles as a mute cleaner who falls for a humanoid amphibian (Doug Jones) in a secret government laboratory in early-1960s Baltimore. The reason it all works so beautifully is that The Shape of Water isn’t just ...
Hilarious comedies, thrilling superhero movies, smart horror films, and engaging dramas comprise the very best movies of 2017. Receiving critical acclaim and earning millions of dollars at the box office, the best 2017 films are also some of the greatest movies of all time. What is the best ...
All horror movies reflect the social anxieties of their time, but few have had the immediacy ofGet Out. Writer-director Jordan Peele portrays the awful reality of African-Americans’ fears while forcing white Americans, who hear supposedly sympathetic rhetoric coming from the mouths of the movie’...
As amazing as 2017 has been for film, nothing has topped one of the first movies I saw this year:Call Me By Your Name.Luca Guadagnino has a gift for making the ordinary erotic, and in his adaptation of André Aciman’s novel the filmmaker infuses glances, gulps of apricot juice, and ...
The 19 best movies of 2017 that you absolutely need to seeJacob Shamsian
The only thing that unites all of these movies is that they all resonated with and spoke to me on some profound level — that, and five of them were feature directorial debuts (well, sort of; one was a solo debut, but that counts). ...
And so to right our wrongs and address our blindspots,The A.V. Clubfinds time every December to single out some of the best movies of the year that slipped through the cracks in our coverage. Every one of the movies listed below opened in theaters or premiered on a viewing platform in...
Duckweedis #1 on our list of the Best Chinese movies of 2017. This is a movie written and inspired by the life ofHan Han, one of China’smost famous modern writers. In the movie, a young rally race driver (played by Deng Chao) gets sent back in time and connects with his father ...
But the best superhero movies are ones that went to some surprising places, pushing the sub-genre to new heights. Wonder Woman offered us a long-awaited great DC flick by finally giving one of the world’s best heroes her cinematic due. Part of what makes the movie great is its old-...