Leave it to a woman to save DC’s comic book universe. Gal Gadot is a star, and her chemistry with Chris Pine sizzles and drives this film to the upper echelon of comic movie greatness.
As much fun as the LEGO Movie, Lego Batman dives deep into the Batman character to tell an amusing and sometimes poignant story that kids and adults will love in equal measure.
It’s amazing that this movie is so good with so many bizarre things happening: a depressing monster allegorical story, Jason Sudeikis serious, Anne Hathaway fairly unlikable. All of them pull it off, especially Sudeikis.
What’s Twilight? Kristen Stewart’s Tour de Force anchors this really weird story about mediums, personal shopping consultants, and skyping boyfriends from Paris. Also, turns out, airplane mode is scary.
A terrifying, rousing conclusion to an improbable franchise. Andy Serkis’s Caesar channels Shakespeare better than most humans in this haunting character study of how war affects someone’s psyche.
Christopher Nolan proves again why he’s the best technical director working today. His take on the war movie weaves time and space into a rousing war epic with a unique spin.
A great horror movie can scare the hell out of you in 10 minutes, just like It does. But a great horror movie channels something within everyone that the audience can connect to and root for, which It also does, and does both well.
Like It, Get Out also connects with people, but by using very pointed social satire, the scares are doubly terrifying because they come from a place of truth. Hey comedy world, Jordan Peele has conquered you, and now it looks like he’ll do the same for the horror world too.
A western masquerading as a superhero movie. But not since the Dark Knight have I been so emotionally moved by a superhero movie. Hugh Jackman’s swansong is almost perfect, including the last shot, which brought me to tears.
This came out in Japan in 2016, but in April in the United States. Makoto Shinkai channels the great Hayao Miyazaki to deliver a larger than life tale that grabs you with jokes and holds you with love and tears. It’s also as beautiful of a movie you will ever see.
