Carpe diem, indeed. It's tough to pick just one "Lord of the Rings" movie to watch. You should really invest in the entire trilogy about the young hobbit embarking on a perilous journey to destroy an all-powerful ring. If you only have time to watch one, go with the second movie that won two Oscars and is the best-reviewed of the trilogy.
His ensuing adventure of sabotaging two wannabe burglars in the neighborhood with pranks like hot tar and feathers is a holiday staple. Sp you've watched the Disney classics? Why not switch things up with the story of a different mouse leaving NYC for the west with his family. Still not convinced? Before she was J. After a few less-than-stellar releases, Pixar nails it with a heartwarming story about the importance of family during the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos The Day of the Dead.
He winds up in search of his great-great-grandfather who he believes to be a famous guitar player in a stunningly vibrant-colored Land of the Dead. You can read our review here. The film received four Oscars. Not done with your Keanu Reeves fix? Us neither. The unexpected Lionsgate hit is a nonstop minute rush of adrenaline of Reeves taking names as he seeks revenge on the men who killed his puppy. You read that right.
It also made us fall in love with the adorable mogwai, Gizmo. Fritz Lang's thriller is about the manhunt of a serial killer who murders children. Other people hate him so much that even criminals try to catch him, teaming up with police to do so. The major difference is Ryder's character Veronica teams up with a badboy, J. Christian Slater , to take down the group and she eventually gets in over her head. If you're looking for another good rom-com, look no further.
You wouldn't think that a movie about zombies on a train could be equally funny and heartbreaking, but the South Korean apocalypse thriller is just that. For the squeamish, this movie isn't scary. Think the setting of "Snowpiercer" with the fast-moving zombies from "World War Z. You've probably seem the image parodied somewhere: Max von Sydow, playing a knight, challenges Death himself to a chess match on the beach.
The entirety of Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" is loaded with allegorical, beautifully composed images like these that will haunt you with questions about death and life.
The Jennifer Garner movie about going from a teen to an adult overnight is essentially Tom Hanks' "Big" for young women. If you're going to watch any of the "Fast and Furious" movies, we recommend watching the fifth installment which course-corrected the franchise. It united Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and more cast members from previous movies for a giant "Ocean's 11"-like heist. And let's not forget a massive brawl between Diesel and the Rock.
You can read our ranking of the "Fast and Furious" movies here. Gene Wilder made every child want to win a golden ticket to visit a magical candy factory and ride down a chocolate river.
Sean Penn's performance as a father with a developmental disability fighting for custody of his daughter, who's played by a young Dakota Fanning, is both heartbreaking and warming. Leonardo DiCaprio's chemistry with Tom Hanks as a youngster con man trying to evade the law i s electric. It's one of those movies you can always watch when it's on TV. The first time you watch this movie, you think you're in for a sweet movie about two young friends who are falling in love.
One of them is played by McCauley Culkin. Then the rug is ripped up from under you. Have some tissues on standby. It's adorable watching the "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends try to sabotage Alfalfa as he attempts to court his crush Darla. Movies about growing up are always difficult, but with "Lady Bird," director Greta Gerwig nailed it. Saoirse Ronan plays an unforgettable woman trying to find her place in the world , and it's now the best-reviewed movie in the history of Rotten Tomatoes.
The lone directorial effort from the legendary actor Charles Laughton and written by James Agee is about a couple of children who flee a corrupt minister when he hatches a plot to marry their mother and steal their dad's money.
It's scary, sure, but it's shot more like an elegiac fairy tale. With a remarkable performance by Paul Newman, "The Verdict" is one of Sidney Lumet's finest and most overlooked films. It doesn't have the same actorly fireworks as "12 Angry Men" or "Dog Day Afternoon," but it has someone everyone can root for.
Newman plays an alcoholic lawyer trying to redeem his career by taking a medical malpractice case that fights against the entrenched health system. You'll find scenes that inspired everything from "Michael Clayton" to "Spotlight. A spin on the movie "Blow-Up," where a photographer discovers he accidentally captured a murder scene in the background of his photos, "Blow Out" does that with sound.
It's about a movie sound effect technician, played by John Travolta in his prime, who discovers he found audio of a would-be political assassin while recording sounds in the park.
It's an inventive thriller and a thrill to watch — especially if you have good speakers. It's definitely worth seeking out. It's about a young woman — beautifully played by Anna Paquin — who witnesses a bus accident and the consequences of it spiral through her life and to the people around her.
You'll definitely cry. Smith about the effect he had on Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, after closing down several factories. Moore never gets the interview, but we learn a lot about America along the way. Starring Andy Griffith, "A Face in the Crowd" is about a small-town drifter who gets a radio show and, eventually, climbs the ladder to the top of the media world.
Locked in on Vega's radiance, Lelio follows Marina through the trials of public grief, the abusive streets of Chile, and the back rooms of her imagination, where escape can be a kaleidoscopic memory or a full-blown dance number. By the end, you'll believe the title. He has issues to work out with men, machines, and the tangible universe, and Alien: Covenant a direct sequel to 's Prometheus , will disappoint anyone looking for wall-to-wall Xenomorph carnage.
With big ideas on his mind , Scott recasts Fassbender as his idea engine, the actor's diligent, lifeless android Walter pit against David, the defiant robot from Prometheus. His baroque bravado sets the tone for the entire movie, while his humanoid costars exist so Scott can rip them apart in excessively giddy and gruesome displays of violence.
Alien: Covenant echoes Jurassic Park , The Evil Dead , and a movie Scott didn't make, James Cameron's Aliens , but the science fiction fueling its engines, and the science fate that steers the ending, amounts to a sadistic "fuck you" to humanity that's basically unheard of in modern blockbusters. Stahelski and Reeves meet impossibly high expectations with more brutal fights, windier shootouts, and a finger-lickin' helping of assassin guild mythology. You could remove every instance of Reeves's Wick planting a bullet in a foe's neck or taking a razor blade to the knee out of John Wick: Chapter 2 and you'd still have a badass movie, a testament to the intricate and loony world created by writer Derek Kolstad.
At a time when most action movies settle for one trailer-worthy setpiece, this sequel gives and gives and gives until you scream bloody murder. Bloody bad guy murder. A coming-of-age story that'll have the queasy retreating from age, Raw finds sheltered vegetarian Justine Marillier embarking on her first year of French veterinarian school. Between graphic dissections, nightly raves, and hazing that makes American fraternity life look like a day at the massage parlor, the student struggles to fit in.
Justine's frosh year takes a morbid turn when her upperclassman sister forces her to consume meat for the first time, unleashing an insatiable hunger. The metaphors are obvious, but Ducournau's clinical eye for horror tableaux -- the "gross" parts range from skin peeling to gnawing on human fingers to dredging dung from a cow's anus for science! Ahn Seo-hyun plays Mija, the young keeper of a "super-pig," bred by a food manufacturer to be the next step in human-consumption evolution.
When the corporate overlords come for her roly-poly pal, Mija hightails it from the farm to the big city to break him out, crossing environmental terrorists, a zany Steve Irwin-type Gyllenhaal , and the icy psychos at the top of the food chain including Swinton's childlike CEO along the way.
Okja won't pluck your heartstrings like E. T , but there's grandeur in its frenzy, and the film's cross-species friendship will strike up every other emotion with its empathetic, eco-friendly, and eccentric observations. Each suffocating second of Good Time , blistered by the neon backgrounds of Queens, New York and propelled by warped heartbeat of Oneothrix Point Never's synth score, finds Connie evading authorities by tripping into an even stickier situation.
His confident ineptitude is at times comical -- after breaking his brother out of a police-secured hospital like one of Danny Ocean's 11, he realizes, whoops, the bandaged guy isn't his brother -- but the commitment to moral ambiguity by both the Safdies and their leading man amounts to the masochistic pleasure of sucking on a sour candy for just a second too long.
Circumstance thrusted his ex-girlfriend, Erin Orphan Black 's Tatiana Maslany back into his life as a de facto caretaker. Green swings back and forth between two powerhouse, physical performances: Gyllenhaal, disabled and miserable, and Maslany, a lost, loving entity forced to drag a wheelchair up and down stairs.
Who signed up for this? No one, the unspoken curse of tragedy, which finally gets its due in Stronger. Where to see it right now: Rent on iTunes, Amazon, and Vudu watch the trailer. Nearly 40 years after the discovery, filmmaker Bill Morrison has spliced the "Dawson City Collection" into a found-footage experience akin to a Ken Burns documentary beamed through the Space Odyssey Star Gate.
Kicked off like a war drama, ignited by social satire -- Harrelson, as subtly as possible, plays an anarchical white nationalist obsessed with walling off his weapons compound from both primate and his fellow man -- and concluded like a Biblical epic, Reeves's sizes up our humanity through the eyes of a inhuman-yet-compassionate leader tasked with saving a civilization without sacrificing his moral code: "ape not kill ape.
To blow off some steam, the couple finds themselves indulging in sex with each other… and loving it. Jacobs leans into the farce of his criss-crossed romance with a flighty, throwback score, but The Lovers ultimately runs deeper, asking questions about intimacy, carnal urges, and love that few movies about aging everypeople would dare to ask. Winger and Letts give two tender, deep-seated performances that'll have your jaw on the floor.
Rees rectifies the overlooked stretch of history with this novelistic drama about two Mississippi families working a rain-drenched farm in The white McAllans settle on a muddy patch of land to realize their dreams.
The Jacksons, a family of black sharecroppers working the land, have their own hopes, which their neighbors manage to nurture and curtail. To capture a multitude of perspectives, Mudbound weaves together specific scenes of daily life, vivid and memory-like, with family member reflections, recorded in whispered voice-over.
The epic patchwork stretches from the Jackson family dinner table, where the youngest daughter dreams of becoming a stenographer, to the vistas of Mississippi, where incoming storms threaten an essential batch of crops, to the battlefields of World War II Germany, a harrowing scene that will affect both families.
Confronting race, class, war, and the possibility of unity, Mudbound spellbinding drama reckons with the past to understand the present. Clinging to his past as a award-winning novelist, Ryota Abe makes due as a part-time detective, spending too much at the tracks and not enough for alimony. After the death of his father, the well-documented liar, Ryota works on his mother for money while tracking his ex-wife's new lover.
None of it is helping his relationship with his, or his own health. Complex yet light-as-a-father, After the Storm questions life's purpose through the lenses of career and relationships, where our dreams can often prevent life from having purpose. Seemingly spliced together from a fuzzy home movies, Fraud tracks a carefree family as they commit a destructive act of insurance fraud and head on the lam like a summer road trip. What's real and what's fabricated?
Fleischer-Camp never allows his sleight-of-hand editing to disrupt the descent into hell, resulting in one of the spookiest movies of the YouTube era. Michael Haneke would be proud. Where to see it right now: Coming soon to VOD watch the trailer. Nolan's treatment of "Operation Dynamo," the effort to smuggle those men out through waves of air raids and U-boat torpedo attacks, is not. Intricate yet simplistic, like the pocket watch one hears tik-toking behind every bar of Hans Zimmer's propulsive score, Dunkirk is an elemental chronicle where each path of escape -- by land, by sea, by sky -- diverts back to the Hell on earth that was World War II.
There aren't so much characters as there are factions of men, soldiers and British amateurs looking to lend a hand. There's no plot beyond "get the hell out. Set in the early s, a time when Dave Matthews' "Crash Into Me" regularly melts hearts, Lady Bird charts a year-in-the-life through precision recreation of shared moments: the arguments with parents, the math quiz meltdowns, the arguments with parents, the life-or-death musical tryouts, the arguments with parents, the fleeting first-time sexual encounters that mean everything, and of course, the arguments with parents.
Laurie Metcalf is an understated powerhouse as Lady Bird's mother, a constant source of contention who reconciles with poverty through her daughter's success. It's a tragic note in total complement to Gerwig's hysterical love letter to home, high school, and the history of ourselves. At the beginning of spine-tingling Sacred Deer , Steve steps up to be a father figure to Martin, gauche and puzzling and bubbling with darkness.
The relationship eventually sours, and it's from there that Lanthimos, known for bitter strains of magical realism, finds footing for an ice-cold rumination on regret and responsibility.
Farrell is gifted unprecedented complexity in his Sophie's Choice , Kidman challenges him with every move, and Keoghan gives a performance that echoes Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
It's a maddening and exhilarating time at the movies. McDonagh sinks his teeth into every meaty expression of hate, rage, and difficulty, and finds humor in the unlikeliest places, as he follows Mildred, hell-bent on answers.
In a world where nothing makes sense, the raw nerves of Three Billboards are truly cathartic. Reynolds Woodcock Day-Lewis is the premiere fashion designer of the era, a genius playboy who detects the contours of women, dresses, and life itself like Neo sees The Matrix. And though his sister Cyril Manville manages every second of his every day, a new muse, Alma Krieps , slips by the alarms and disrupts his understanding of success with a simple trick: love.
Early on, Woodcock reveals that he sews secret messages into his garments. Anderson does the same in Phantom Thread , a drama rich with details and personal admissions. It's one of the year's best horror films, and Lawrence delivers the most physical scream queen performance of a generation, but that may give you the wrong idea; Aronfosky boils down humanity's creation, existence, and future extinction into an absorbing invasion thriller. Imagine Hell on Earth… with a little Heaven thrown in.
With Logan Lucky , the filmmaker gifts those of us without bespoke tuxedo collections the heist movie we deserve: a bluesy, Southern-fried, NASCAR-set bank job where pick-ups do the heavy-lifting, gummy bears and cleaning solution make the vaults go boom, and blue collars are worn with pride.
How they stick it to the naysayers is one of the most pure-fun times I've had at the movies this year. Like Tangerine , his iPhone-shot profile of L. His eyes are Moonee, a six-year-old who adventures through abandoned condos, along strip-mall-encrusted highway, and across verdant fields of overgrown brush like Max in Where the Wild Things Are. But as gorgeous as the everything appears -- and The Florida Project looks stunning -- the world around here is falling apart, beginning with her mother, an ex-stripper turning to prostitution.
The juxtaposition, and down-to-earth style that can make a Hollywood veteran like Willem Dafoe , reconsiders modern America in the most electrifying way imaginable. She's enigmatic yet seductive, the perfect set of observing, questioning eyes to lead us down a windy exploration of grief. Hunnam, rousing and physical, stars as Percy, a turn-of-theth-century military man who embarks to South America to map Bolivia and cleanse his family name of scandal.
Months of starvation, illness, piranha-infested waters, and encounters with natives end with the near-discovery of a hidden, advanced civilization. Gray makes room for court scenes, WWI battles, tender family drama, and a musical score that can stand alone. But in the end, the verdant unknown of Amazonia that has its way with Fawcett and our senses, reflecting a profound component of human nature. Together they wander the modernist menagerie of Columbus, tour guide trivia making way for intimate conversation, and eventually, arguments that challenge their worst habits.
Kogonada, a video essayist with Reddit cred, frames everything from towering glass office buildings to the long hallways of Casey's house with Zen-like composition, giving Columbus a beauty that strengthens the foundation of its two transcendent lead performances. Where to see it right now: Stream on Hulu; rent on iTuens and Amazon watch the trailer. With stylistic quirks, enough winks to resist pretension a scene where Mara devours a pie in one five-minute, uncut take is both tragic and cheeky , and a soundscape culled from the space-time continuum, A Ghost Story connects the dots between romantic love, the places we call home, and time -- a ghost's worst enemy.
Peele's directorial debut begins as like an update of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? As the weekend hours pass, Chris stumbles into a racially charged conspiracy that only Peele, a student of Wes Craven and horror masters of yesteryears, could conjure up.
It's a timeless story of greed and power. Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" — and its sequels, each made nine years apart — are the most romantic movies ever made. Stanley Kubrick's " A Space Odyssey" came out in , but its special effects — and its message — are just as brilliant today as they were back then.
Few movies take as sharp a knife to the pettiness of class distinctions as "The Rules of the Game," Jean Renoir's hilarious yet moving satire. Of all the Pixar films, "Toy Story" is still the most essential.
It's a moving tale that changed animation forever. While you're at it, watch its sequels as well. Every kid should watch "The Muppet Movie," which helped bring the charms of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and the rest of the gang to the world. It was the first animated movie to receive a best picture nomination at the Oscars. For kids, "E. Every kid remembers the first movie that terrorizes them. To make it a good one, watch Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" or "Jaws.
Of all of Martin Scorsese's films, "Goodfellas" is his most masterful. It shows what can go wrong in the life of a promising young person, and how it can go spiraling down — all while being hilarious. Red Rum. It's one of Jack Nicholson's best and most terrifying performances.
Barry Jenkins's "Moonlight" may be new but — in its portrayal of neglected lives and their pitiable turns — it's already essential. Billy Wilder has made about a dozen classics. Once you view it, you too will be able to weigh in on one of the hottest debates in pop culture: Whether or not "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie.
Adapting "Hamlet" as a musical would be hard, but "The Lion King" succeeds wonderfully by turning all the characters into animals. There are no other movies like "Mulholland Drive," which has a dreamlike aesthetic, cryptic narrative, and dark humor that pushes the possibilities of cinema itself. Christopher Nolan's second Batman film elevated the genre to new, darker heights and made it worth taking seriously.
Heath Ledger gave the performance of a lifetime as the iconic Joker villain, earning an Oscar posthumously. Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" helped change the way audiences thought about cinema, putting dozens of references and genres into a blender and turning it into something effortlessly cool.
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