But for a woman to have to confront the loved one’s doctors and business associates and exes and family, without the benefit of a marriage certificate or a will or any legal standing for her relationship to the deceased other than her word for it, is a nightmare not even Kafka could imagine. and bureaucracy any woman might face navigating the unfortunate logistics of wrapping up a deceased lover’s final affairs. A Fantastic Woman - One can readily imagine the b.s. ( Full review.) A Fantastic Woman - Photo: Sony Pictures ClassicsĦ. Not even Spidey’s triumphant solo return in Spider-Man: Homecoming could match such a feat of exuberant escape. While this spring’s Logan had gravitas and the panache of an old school Western, and summer’s Wonder Woman had urgency and the charismatic Gal Gadot, Thor managed to shove all that entertainment, plus the Hulk and Cate Blanchett and her enormous CGI antlers, under one roof. Thor: Ragnarok - Light on backstory and paved with almost all fresh road, at least for the casual comic book moviegoer, Thor: Ragnarok should be the film future generations watch to understand this 21st century explosion of superhero cinema, if they still give a damn what we thought about anything. Chalamet absolutely seizes his moment at the head of this year’s class of breakout acts.Īctor Tom Holland’s Gay Sex Scene Sparks ControversyĬall Me By Your Name: Luca Guadagnino and James Ivory on making the ultimate gay romance Thor: Ragnarok - Photo: Marvel Studiosħ. It’s a beautiful trip to a lazy ’80s summer of long afternoon lunches and hot evening swims, where mom and dad encourage a kid to seize the day. What really sets the film apart is the design, care, and craft employed to create a world so fertile with hope and knowledge that an audience can trust that even pain will bear the fruit of wisdom. Call Me By Your Name - Director Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous Italy-set love story would be exceptional just for the electric connection that star Timothée Chalamet establishes onscreen in tandem with every member of the cast he meets, particularly his love interest, played by Armie Hammer. Also, Matt Damon and child actor Noah Jupe have a great thing going as father and son turned from adoring to adversarial. ( Full review.) Call Me By Your Name - Photo: Sony Pictures ClassicsĨ. How could the filmmakers have known when they shot the film’s ’50s-set race rallies that real-life Nazis and the Klan would be marching on a Virginia college campus just weeks before the movie opened? If Suburbicon‘s message is that standing with your neighbors against bigotry is a more worthwhile pursuit than whacking your wife, then at least its macabre heart is in the right place. The film also took a licking from critics, who complained that Clooney weighed down what should have been a murderous romp with too-obvious messaging about red-vs-blue politics and racial tension. Suburbicon - This pitch-black comedy was virtually ignored by the autumn moviegoing crowd, despite A-list stars, director George Clooney, and a script by the Coen brothers, who are a brand unto themselves. They also share an appetite for flesh, which gets in the way of sisters just looking out for each other in this rare enjoyable cannibal horror flick.Īttempt to Remove San Diego Library’s LGBTQ Books Backfiresĩ. The veterinary school classmates develop a taste for the same stud, Adrian (Rabah Nait Oufella), who happens to be gay. That’s fine, since the humor and curated cool allow a closer view of the violently complicated relationship between sisters Justine (Garance Marillier) and Alex (Ella Rumpf). RAW - Morbid and sexy, writer-director Julia Ducournau’s feminist horror film is just unhinged enough to avoid being as sadistically disturbing as one of its clear antecedents, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. That pleasure was, of course, emphatically deniable to some - hence, this entirely subjective list of the year’s ten best films. But even that was the kind of bad that Bad-Movie lovers live for, just as the year’s most divisive film, Darren Aronofsky’s lunatic Mother!, offered the undeniable pleasure of J-Law’s plugged-in performance in the midst of utter narrative chaos. Love stories are great, and not much was truly terrible (with the exception of that lurid sins-of-the-father thriller The Snowman, starring Michael Fassbender).
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