My Favorite Movies of ’17 (And What The Oscars Should Really Look Like)
The best films of 2017 and my picks for the big Oscar categories. Continue reading My Favorite Movies of ’17 (And What The Oscars Should Really Look Like)
Author: therealwadelazz
Mudbound (2017)
I feel like that if Mudbound was shot on film instead of the Netflix-brand shiny digital and was mass-released in theaters rather than streamed, it would be up for Best Picture. Continue reading Mudbound (2017)
Darkest Hour (2017)
It cannot be said that Darkest Hour is anything but a good movie. It checks all of the boxes: an all-time portrayal of a real figure, a tight script about a trying time in history, and a director with the eye for the picturesque. Continue reading Darkest Hour (2017)
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
Certainly, there are moments when the script gets funky, and the ending may not totally satisfy, but Roman J. Israel, Esq is a very good (and surely rewatchable) film and is top-shelf Denzel canon. Continue reading Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
The Shape of Water (2017)
Known colloquially as the “fish sex” movie, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water is so much more. It is a mash-up of two mid-century genres, monster movies and light-footed romance, directed by a master, with good performances, and a great score. Continue reading The Shape of Water (2017)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
While The Disaster Artist is funny it is not as touching as it hopes to be, and never answers the big question about why the lowest of art can reach the height of sublimity. Continue reading The Disaster Artist (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
The Florida Project is about the long shadows and the forgotten people in them. Continue reading The Florida Project (2017)
Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Call Me By Your Name is the story of a grad-student, a man in his mid-20s, grooming a 17-year old boy for sex, thinking better of it, and then giving in anyway. In between the sodomy the young Jewish men bicycle around small Italian towns, speak pretentiously, and have dalliances with women to incite jealousy. That’s it. Continue reading Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards is an awards favorite. It’s close to being as great as advertised at several moments, but it never reaches the summit, and, sometimes, when it misses the mark it misses badly. Continue reading Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
I, Tonya (2017)
I, Tonya is peppy, vibrant, and so much fun. Continue reading I, Tonya (2017)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature is an engrossing, small study of the eccentricity of creative brilliance. Phantom Thread is a subversive, black comedy of manners that moves from the orderly to the pseudo-bizarre. Daniel Day-Lewis (a co-writer of sorts) … Continue reading Phantom Thread (2017)
Molly’s Game (2017)
Molly’s Game, the famed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, is the true story of ex-Olympic hopeful Molly Bloom’s ascendancy to the pinnacle of the poker underworld—an oxymoron, it seems. The movie is a quick-talking, nimbly-paced modern drama about a damaged woman in a man’s world. Continue reading Molly’s Game (2017)
