I like movies. I go to movies. Here’s soame movies I liked in 2017.
- Thor: Ragnarok: Hulk. Jeff Goldblum. Cate Blanchett. Norse Mythology. This movie has it all and was genuinely delightful to watch from start to finish.
- Spider-Man: Homecoming: I’ve been reading Spider-Man since I learned to read and this is the best adaptation of the character. It was charming and Peter was very relatable. Michael Keaton did a great job as an antagonist you could sympathize with without really making apologies for him.
- Logan: The best X-Men movie, because it embraced consequences and didn’t waste time setting things up or saving things for the sequel. Also, Laura. More Laura please, thank you.
- Wonder Woman: Imperfect but better than any of the other DC adaptations coming out. They got the character down right and the story highlighted the best parts of her well.
- The Lure: Surreal foreign mermaid horror musical.
- Get Out: It’s not a comedy. It is a very smart horror movie with a lot to say about America.
- The Big Sick: A charming romantic comedy with some really good performances.
- The Babysitter: A fun straight to Netflix horror-comedy.
- Colossal: Nacho Vigalondo puts a great twist on the giant monster movie.
- Batman & Bill: A heartbreaking documentary about the, longtime uncredited, co-creator of Batman, Bill Finger, who died broke and alone.
- Lady Bird: My senior year of High School was 2000-2001, about 2 years before this movie takes place, but this movie feels in a lot of ways like just a window into that time for me. I didn’t really have the same experiences at all. It just felt really true to life to me in a way most High School movies just don’t. I related to it a lot without necessarily seeing literal parallels to my life. Almost didn’t make the list because it made me feel something about “Crash Into Me,” and I’m not okay with that.