Totally insane, certifiably sick in the head and impossible to shake.Ī man dies and haunts his own house, covered in a white sheet with eye holes in it, watching silently as the world moves on without him. Mainstream audiences recoiled from its baroque self-indulgence (hard to believe something this esoteric was released in more than 2,000 theaters), but few films in 2017 gave me such a pure cinematic rush. The year's most divisive movie, Darren Aronofsky's brutal, relentless fever dream is a heady allegory for. Charming and funny as a simple love story, and perceptive as a look at cross-cultural differences. Gordon (played here by Zoe Kazan), and the unexpected illness that brought them closer together. The best romantic comedy in a while was inspired by the real-life courtship of screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani (who also stars) and Emily V. Here are my personal picks for the best films of 2017. I've had a number of individual images, scenes, musical cues and performances bouncing around my brain, and actually putting the following 10 titles into a sensible, non-arbitrary order felt a little foolish.Īs is the case every year, I have yet to see a few prestige pictures that everyone seems to like, including Phantom Thread and The Post, but there's still a whole lot to recommend. In terms of actual filmic quality, however, it was a very good year. Whether or not this year's films were knowingly made with our country's current moral temperature in mind, it was often impossible to separate the fractious social climate from what was happening on the screen, especially when some of the most disturbing headlines came from within Hollywood itself. 2017 was fraught, to say the least, a year of dirty politics, propaganda, white supremacy, natural disasters, sexual harassment allegations and, against it all, a rising tide of resistance.
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