Kermode's Full top 10 for 2017: 10 (tie) In Between & Paddington 2 9. Get Out 8. Blade Runner 2049 7. Toni Erdmann 6. My Life as a Courgette 5. The Florida Project 4. The Red Turtle 3. The Levelling 2. Moonlight 1. Raw
Here's my list: 1. Manchester by the Sea 2. Dunkirk 3. The Handmaiden 4. Call Me By Your Name 5. Toni Erdmann 6. Aquarius 7. Elle 8. Moonlight 9. The Florida Project 10. Christine 11. The Beguiled 12. A Ghost Story 13. Jackie 14. Certain Women 15. I Am Not Your Negro 16. After the Storm 17. Blade Runner 2049 18. My Life as a Courgette 19. Get Out 20. The Lost City of Z
My top 10: 1. Moonlight 2. Blade Runner 2049 3. The Handmaiden 4. Silence 5. Dunkirk 6. The Love Witch 7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 8. Neruda 9. Manchester by the Sea 10. Jackie All of Mark's top 10 I've seen would make my top 50. Longer list + explanations here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JQom2ng8iic.html
Good list! My personal top 10: 1. A Ghost Story 2. The Florida Project 3. Grave AKA Raw 4. Wind River 5. Juste la fin du monde AKA It’s Only the End of the World 6. Logan Lucky 7. The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8. Hounds of Love 9. Free Fire 10. It Comes at Night Honourable mentions to: Personal Shopper, Lady Macbeth, Only the Brave, Baby Driver, Jackie, Good Time, The Death of Stalin and many more. I hope 2018 is as good a year for films as 2017 was.
Douglas Moone That muppet just embarrasses himself in public by ignoring this masterpiece. I want to see his face after CMBYN gets Globes and Oscars for best picture and actor.
My list (based on Chicago release dates): Honorable mentions: The Disaster Artist, My Life as a Zucchini, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Personal Shopper, Graduation - 10 - The Beguiled - 9 - 20th Century Women - 8 - T2 Trainspotting - 7 - The Florida Project - 6 - Lady Bird - 5 - Get Out - 4 - A Ghost Story - 3 - Ingrid Goes West - 2 - The Killing of a Sacred Deer - 1 - mother!
I might have to rewatch it. I thought it was okay and the music was clever but it felt too long and the concept stretched a bit too far. Wouldn't be in my top ten of the year but I've changed my opinion on a rewatch before..
YES!!! I loved raw. I don’t usually enjoy horror films, but the metaphors, performances and disturbing nature blew me away. Shocked that Dunkirk wasn’t on the list (I though British film critics were contractually obligated to love everything Nolan) but I am so glad he mentioned raw.
The two films that I enjoyed most in 2017 were Transporting 2 and The Other Side of Hope. Mark gave both films enthusiastic reviews earlier in the year and I'm a bit surprised that neither of them are in the top 10. I guess he sees an awful lot of good and bad films over the year but I'm wondering if these were forgotten gems as they were early in the year. Anyway I'd recommend them both for anyone that has not seen them yet and see Marks reviews first as they are on here.
Astonished that you haven't included Dunkirk. An amazing achievement by Christopher Nolan, who yet again has produced an intelligent blockbuster which is stunning to look at, evocative and an amazing portrayal of that event (with a soundtrack to match). Having watched the DvD extras was even more astonished to realise that it was done virtually entirely in camera, using a mixture of lots of extras, real planes and ships with a few traditional film practical effects rather than lots of CGI, which accounts in part for its amazing feeling of reality.
Foebane72 Lol thanks for clarifying. On a technical level it's really good, but Nolan doesn't seem to know how to make the audience question things without using really forced, contrived dialogue
For me, the best films of 2017 will probably be films that I will only be able to see in 2018: Especially Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri, The Shape of Water (!) and The Phantom Thread. So far my favourites are The Red Turtle, Lady Macbeth and The Killing of a sacred deer.
I am so looking forward to these three, too. But in my country those won't be released until late january/february. Also Lynne Ramsays new movie You were never really here looks very promising. I feel like 2018 is gonna be a good year.
Struggled with The Red Turtle. Visuals didn't grip me, pacing was a problem. Might give it another go. Baby Driver was the standout for me. Really great.
Great list! Here's mine: 10. The Shape of Water 9. Star Wars The Last Jedi 8. The Florida Project 7. Baby Driver 6. War for the Planet of the Apes 5. A Ghost Story 4. Logan 3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2. Dunkirk 1. Blade Runner 2049
My List: 1. Blade Runner 2049 2. A Ghost Story 3. Wind River 4. Bleed For This 5. Loving Vincent 6. Silence 7. The Lost City Of Z 8. Brad's Status 9. Alone In Berlin 10. The Sense Of An Ending Honourable mentions: Dunkirk The Killing Of A Sacred Deer It Comes At Night Get Out Split Good Time It The Glass Castle Buster's Mal Heart The Big Sick Logan Lucky The Comedian T2: Trainspotting Documenaries Top 5: 1. Jim & Andy - The Great Beyond 2. Icarus 3. What The Health 4. I Am Not Your Negro 5. City Of Ghosts
Yeah that's why he doesn't have films like Call Me By Your Name or The Shape of Water or others like them on the lkst. They don't come out in the UK until January or February there.
My favourite movies of 2017 1. Blade runner 2049 2. Dunkirk 3. Logan 4. War for the planet of the apes 5. Star Wars the last Jedi 6. IT 7. John wick chapter 2 8. The LEGO Batman movie 9. The disaster artist 10. Baby driver
Bearing in mind that I live in a town that isn't well catered to much arthouse, My Top 10 films of 2017... 1. Bladerunner 2049 2. Baby driver 3. War for the Planet of the apes 4. Guardians of the galaxy vol.2 5. Moonlight 6. IT 7. Paddington 2 8. Ghost Story 9. Dunkirk 10. Mother! (Just cause never seen anything like it and for the few gasps and groans of those in the screening. It's a divisive and testing movie and thankful it graced the multiplex)
I also have to add, once or twice when I have taken Mark's recommendations on some weird indy thing... not always a great watch. Still find him a very informative and entertaining critic though.
Star Wars was my number 1 by a mile. A real cinematic masterpiece that made go through every emotion. All those 5-1 films are sensational too along with as you say about 50 other films this year. A fantastic year for cinema,fantastic.
10. The Shape of Water9. Baby Driver8. The Square7. The Kiling of a Sacred Deer6. Lean on Pete5. Loveless4. Blade Runner 2049 3. Call Me By Your Name2. Happy End1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Paddington 2 and Blade Runner 2049 made it to Dorset, and were watched, and enjoyed. That's 2 more films than last years Kermodes top ten films (that don't make it out of the cities)
Honorable Mentions: Born In China, The Lego Batman Movie, A Quiet Passion, Life, Thank You For Your Service, Beauty And The Beast, Split, It Comes At Night, Baby Driver, Ingrid Goes West, American Made, Marshall, Last Flag Flying, The Florida Project, Wonderstruck, Darkest Hour, Novitiate, Lady Macbeth, Only The Brave, Lady Bird, It, Get Out, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Alien: Covenant, Battle Of The Sexes 1. Dunkirk 2. Coco 3. The Shape Of Water 4. The Lost City Of Z 5. Detroit 6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 7. Wind River 8. Star Wars: Episode VIII-The Last Jedi 9. Wonder 10. Mudbound 11. Blade Runner 2049 12. Brigsby Bear 13. The Big Sick 14. The Disaster Artist 15. A United Kingdom
Love everything you do Mark, a truly great list of films........ But surely Dunkirk deserved to be mentioned....... Not judging as I say I love all the reviews and such that you do and looking forward to a new year of reviews 😊
Join us for the next episode of Kermode uncut wherein Mark bashes his audience round the face with a copy of Fouccault's History of Sexuality (all joking aside, great list, keep on keeping on Mark)
My Top 10 Fresh Fruit of 2017 1. Mudbound2. The Disaster Artist3. Logan4. War of the Planet of the Apes5. Coco6. IT7. Star Wars: The Last Jedi8. Baby Driver9. Get Out10. Wonder Woman Honorable Mentions: •Dunkirk •Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 •Spider-Man: Homecoming •Thor: Raganrok •Molly’s Game •Darkest Hour •Split •Goodbye Christopher Robin •The Lego Batman Movie •Colossal •All The Money in The World •Wonder •Kong: Skull Island •Beauty and The Beast •The Greatest Showman •The Big Sick •Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri •Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle •The Shape of Water •All The Money in The World •I, Tonya •Lady Bird
I quite enjoyed Moonlight. I don't know if it was the best film of this year, but it certainly was better than La La Land and deserved the win, out of the competing films. I still need to watch Raw because I'm a bad person or something lol
i watched all movies in this list and thought were amazing , especially The Red Turtle and Blade Runner 49 , but Moonlight ??? nah nothing happens in that movie and it's all over the place and the time skipping doesn't work at all , i would have liked it more if they focused on one timeline .
red turtle is a film difficult to not like, but I thought it shot itself in the foot by having such a conventional story arc. it felt cliched and almost sappy. I wouldve liked something a bit darker or more surreal.
My Top 10 10. After the Storm/Certain Women 9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 8. Manchester by the Sea 7. The Red Turtle 6. The Levelling 5. Christine 4. The Lost City of Z 3. The Boy and the Beast 2. The Handmaiden 1. Personal Shopper
