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Dec 1, 2017 · 15. “Faces Places”. The O.G. of the French New Wave delivers another wondrous late-period essay film, this time in collaboration with photographer J.R., a sunglasses-clad photographer whose ...
- “Staying Vertical”
- “Donald Cried”
- “I Don’T Feel at Home in This World anymore.”
- “The Zookeeper’s Wife”
- “Before I Fall”
- “The Ornithologist”
- “I Am Michael”
- “Risk”
- “Colossal”
- “A Quiet Passion”
READ MORE: Sexual Revolution: France’s Alain Guiraudie On ‘Staying Vertical’ and Why He’ll Never Sell Out It’s never entirely clear when “Staying Vertical,” French director Alain Guiraudie’s followup to “Stranger By the Lake,” shifts into allegory. It might be the moment when filmmaker Leo (Damien Bonnard) finds himself homeless, wandering city str...
Even if you can go home again, it isn’t always a good idea. Kris Avedisian wrote, directed and played the title character in his feature debut, a melancholy spin on the buddy comedy in which the buddies are estranged and the comedy is pitch black. Donald himself is the kind of dude you feel bad for not wanting to be around: a nice-enough guy who ne...
READ MORE: ‘I Don’t Feel At Home in this World Anymore’ Review: Melanie Lynskey Is A Frustrated Vigilante In Macon Blair’s Delightfully Dark Directorial Debut What the fuck is wrong with people? That question, which feels more pressing by the day, is at the ruefully dark heart of Macon Blair’s “I don’t feel at home in this world anymore.” a hysteri...
READ MORE: ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Director Niki Caro Has a Plan for Fighting Hollywood’s Gender Gap Niki Caro’s fact-based historical drama is a heartbreaker of the highest order, anchored by an understated performance by Jessica Chastain and a series of wrenching dramatic twists that will wring tears out of even the hardest of hearts. Based on Dia...
Based on author Lauren Oliver’s novel of the same, “Before I Fall” could be described as “‘Groundhog Day’ for teenagers,” a repeating-day drama that centers on popular high school senior Samantha Kingston (breakout star Zoey Deutch, who adds both spike and charm to the role), who finds herself trapped in a terrifying time loop that sees her dying e...
Mind-blowing in the best possible way, “The Ornithologist” may not work for everyone, but those willing to embrace its puzzling ingredients will find a rewarding solution: further confirmation of a genuine film artist. The fifth narrative feature of Portugal’s João Pedro Rodrigues continues the soul-searching outlook and inventive storytelling of “...
There are two ways of seeing “I Am Michael,” the provocative first feature from director Justin Kelly: It’s either a tragic portrait of former gay rights activist Michael Glatze, who renounced his homosexuality in 2007 and eventually denounced it as a sin, or it’s a stirring look at a conflicted man coping with his crisis of faith. That tantalizing...
READ MORE: ‘Risk’ Takes On Julian Assange: The Dramatic Story Behind Laura Poitras’ Oscar Follow-Up Peripatetic filmmaker Laura Poitras never imagined that “Risk,” her follow-up to the demanding Oscar-winning Edward Snowden documentary “Citizenfour,” would present another set of daunting challenges. This time over six years she got up close and per...
Anne Hathaway is some kind of monster in Nacho Vigalondo’s kinda-kaiju movie, which begins as a rom-com before revealing its darker shades. From Seoul to a nameless American suburb, the writer/director’s follow-up to “Extraterrestrial” offers a new take on the getting-your-shit-together drama, one in which making bad decisions on a drunken night is...
On the one hand, it’s hard to believe that no one had ever made a movie about Emily Dickinson before. On the other hand, you try making an exciting biopic about a reclusive virgin who spent most of her life holed up in her family’s Amherst home (where she suffered from agonizing bouts of Bright’s disease and refused to greet anyone who came calling...
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10. Wonder Woman. Warner Bros. $822,303,505. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast, The Fate of the Furious, and Despicable Me 3 have each grossed over $1 billion, making them among the highest-grossing films of all time, [3] with the latter being the fourth-highest-grossing animated film.
MonthDateNameAge675666680961More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first human-made object ever to do so. Director: Emer Reynolds | Stars: Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani, Lawrence Krauss. Votes: 4,494 | Gross: $0.01M. 6. Loveless (2017) R | 127 min | Drama.
1. Okja (2017) TV-MA | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama. A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja. Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn, Jake Gyllenhaal.
So it became a list of 14 plus 1 best indie movies of 2017. Have a good time! 15. The Nile Incident Accident – Tarik Saleh. The 2017 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Foreign Dramatic movie went to an Interesting attempt to outline Egyptian society, and more specifically the Egyptian police of Mubarak, responsible for many crimes and tortures.
"2017 was a good year for indie cinema in the U.S., with some movies turning into theater hits. This list focuses on the best 10 productions of all genres. The criterion applied is absence of participation by Major Six in the funding of the movie – that is why 'Get out' or ' 'the disaster artist' are excluded from the list – and a moderate ...
