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.
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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.
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.
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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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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