2017 was a great year.

After the brilliant horror/thrillerThe Visit, Shyamalan continued with theJames McAvoy-ledSplit, which made waves globally.

It was praised for brilliant performances, Shyamalan’s directing and editing, and a solid plot.

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It’s also one of the last moviesArmie Hammermade beforean array of bizarre accusationswere made against him.

He’s had a weird run, for sure, though his acting career hasn’t stopped.

The movie follows 17-year-old Elio (Chalamet), spending the summer of 1983 in Italy with his family.

James McAvoy as the Horde aka Kevin Wendell Crumb at the end of ‘Split’

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Thisbeautiful and vulnerable coming-of-age drama has amoving final speech and ending, and it defined 2017 in many ways.

Itfollows a group of friends in 1989 spending the summer holidays in their hometown, Derry.

People weren’t used to good adaptations of King’s works, soItwas monumental.

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Dunkirkbegins with Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), one of the soldiers at Dunkirk.

To many critics, this was Ford’s best performance.

Its horrors grow from microaggressions and passive-aggression to full-on mental and physical violence against its Black characters.

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The moviefeels very muchStepford Wives-like, which Peele cited as a great inspiration.

His debut marked a big moment in 2017, and in history.

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Dominic West as Julian with a surprised look on his face at a dinner party in The Square

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A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

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Lily James sits in the passenger seat of a red car while Ansel Elgort points a gun out of the driver’s seat window in Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’

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Tommy crawling on a beach surrounded by smoke and other soldiers in Dunkirk

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Hector and Miguel playing guitars while smiling with Dante the dog at their feet in Coco

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Chris desperately reaches out into the void as he falls deeper into the ominous “sunken place” in 2017’s Get Out.

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