While Dane DeHaan may have been miscast as an intergalactic badass in Valerian, he was perfectly suited for the lead role in Gore Verbinski’s gorgeous and wonderfully over the top Gothic horror. The Transfigurationdraws heavily on similar films like Martin and Let The Right One In, but its New York setting, strong performances and strong sense of its own identity make it stand out. It’s a low-key drama about a young boy named Milo (Eric Ruffin) who believes he is a vampire, and it’s pretty unflinching in its depiction of his attempts to live as a creature of the night. Writer-director Michael O’Shea’s debut may not have had the noisiest theatrical release, but it’s definitely going to find a cult following of dedicated fans (as evidenced by it topping a couple of our writers’ polls). The set-up is familiar but it’s brilliantly directed with an excellent cast (Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Christopher Abbott, Riley Keogh and Kelvin Harrison Jr all impress), and you’ll be talking about it for days. It’s the monster inside all of us that we should be afraid of, as paranoia, mistrust, selfishness and panic push two families surviving in the aftermath of a viral outbreak to their limits. Featuring a superb performance from Lewis MacDougall as young Conor as a boy struggling to find an outlet for his rage at the imminent tragedy facing his family, A Monster Calls was almost overwhelming in its determination to provoke floods of tears but it was also honest, and all the more devastating for it.Īudiences may have been misled by the marketing for Trey Edward Shults’ gripping, claustrophobic horror, but the fact is that the monsters the trailers promised aren’t important. Speaking of grief, JA Bayona’s film of Patrick Ness’ novel about loss plunged its hand into our chest and pulled out our heart. Contributions to pop culture at large include that Dark Rooms song and Rooney Mara grief-eating a pie.
It takes some big swings into the mystic but it finds just as much profundity in the quiet moments, like the confusion shared between two neighbouring spirits who are no longer sure who they’re waiting for. And John C Reilly’s performance deserves its own award.ĭavid Lowery’s Sundance smash was a beautiful and heartfelt meditation on love, loss and time, as Casey Affleck’s bedsheet-covered spirit can’t, won’t and doesn’t want to move on from the house he shared with his wife (a brilliant Rooney Mara). Riddled with pop culture references but somehow still very much its own thing, Kong: Skull Island was an action-packed yet determinedly weird blockbuster. The crowd-pleasing moments score big, as the film’s truly gigantic king of the apes faces off against a seemingly never-ending stream of helicopters, a giant squid, “skull-crawlers” and an increasingly insane Samuel L Jackson.
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Jordan Vogt-Roberts made a monster movie and a Vietnam film fight each other and the result is this action-packed monster mash. We’re never forgetting the way he eats spaghetti (the rest of the film is brilliant too). Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman are excellent as the husband and wife who find themselves at the mercy of a determined young man from his past, but it’s Barry Keoghan’s performance as the devious yet deadpan Martin that will stay with you. Look past the miscasting of Dane DeHaan and embrace the sheer joy of Valerian.įrom “sheer joy” to the darkest dark comedy of the year, as The Lobsterand Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returned with this compelling, odd and pitch-black horror. It’s also packed with brilliant aliens, mad tech and Ethan Hawke and Rihanna as a space pimp and a kindly shape-shifter respectively. It’s visually stunning, it’s incredibly inventive and the prologue alone, one of the most striking in recent memory, would earn it a place on this list. Luc Besson’s mega-budget space opera may have disappointed at the box-office, but the fact that the film’s financial issues were being so widely reported meant that a very important fact was being overlooked: it’s a really fun film.
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS But what’s made our list of the very best? To get these results we polled our contributors for their top 10s and crunched the numbers, and the amazing range of movies here shows just how good a year it’s been.Ģ2. It’s been an exceptional year for the genre, as Wonder Woman stormed the box-office, Logan made us cry, Caesar hunted for vengeance and studios realised that audiences love horror films. The end of the year, specifically, when we make lists, and here are the sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies that had us talking in 2017.
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