2017

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• Access All Areas – directed by Bryan Higgins, steering Ella Purnell, Edward Bluemel, Georgie Henley, Jordan Stephens, Nigel Lyndsay, Jo Hartley, & Jason Flemyng
• All Nighter – directed by Gavin Wiesen, starring J.K. Simmons, Emile Hirsch, Taran Killam, Kristen Schaal, & Analeigh Lipton
• American Fable – directed by Anne Hamilton, starring Peyton Kennedy, Richard Schiff, Kip Pardue, Marci Miller, Gavin MacIntosh, & Zuleikha Robinson
• Animal Crackers – directed by Scott Christian Sava & Tony Bancroft, starring the voices of John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Danny DeVito, Ian McKellen, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Warburton, Raven-Symoné, Harvey Fierstein, Wallace Shawn, Gilbert Gottfried, Tara Strong, James Arnold Taylor, Kevin Grevioux, & Lydia Rose Taylor
• Arsenal -directed by Steven C. Miller, starring Adrian Grenier, John Cusack, Nicolas Cage, & Johnathon Schaech
• Arthur Miller: Writer – directed by Rebecca Miller – tv movie documentary
• Atomica – directed by Dagen Merrill, starring Dominic Monaghan, Tom Sizemore, & Sarah Habel
• Atomic Blonde – directed by David Leitch, starring Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, & Toby Jones
• Bad Grandmas – directed by Srikant Chellappa starring Pam Grier, Judge Reinhold, Florence Henderson, & Randall Batinkoff
• Beauty and the Beast* – directed by Bill Condon, starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, & Emma Thompson
• Before I Fall – directed by Ry Russo-Young, starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Elena Kampouris, Diego Boneta, & Jennifer Beals
• The Beguiled – directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, & Wayne Pere
• Being Rose – directed by Rod McCall, starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin, & Pam Grier
• The Belko Experiment – directed by Greg McLean, written by James Gunn, starring John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, Melonie Diaz, Josh Brener, & Michael Rooker
• Between Us – directed by Rafael Palacio Illingworth. The film stars Olivia Thirlby, Ben Feldman, Adam Goldberg, Lio Tipton, Scott Haze, Peter Bogdanovich, & Lesley Ann Warren
• The Blackcoat’s Daughter – directed by Oz Perkins, starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, & James Remar
• Blade of the Immortal – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, Sota Fukushi, Hayato Ichihara, Erika Toda, Kazuki Kitamura, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Ken Kaneko, Yoko Yamamoto, Ichikawa Ebizō XIII, Min Tanaka, & Tsutomu Yamazaki – Japan
• Blade Runner 2049* – directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto, & Edward James Olmos
• The Book of Love – directed by Bill Purple, starring Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Biel, Maisie Williams, Mary Steenburgen, Orlando Jones, & Paul Reiser
• The Boss Baby – directed by Tom McGrath, starring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow, Miles Bakshi, & Tobey Maguire
• Bornless Ones – directed by Alexander Babaev, starring Margaret Judson, Devin Goodsell, Michael Johnston, & Mark Furze
• Bunyan and Babe – directed by Louis Ross, starring the voices of John Goodman, Jeff Foxworthy, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Orlando, Mark Hamill, & Dorien Davies
• Burning Sands – directed by Gerard McMurray, starring Trevor Jackson, Alfre Woodard, Steve Harris, Tosin Cole, DeRon Horton, & Trevante Rhodes
• The Bye Bye Man – directed by Stacy Title, starring Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss, Faye Dunaway, & Jenna Kanell
• Car Dogs – directed by Adam Collis, starring Patrick J. Adams, Alessandra Torresani, Octavia Spencer, Dash Mihok, Stefanie Butler, Josh Hopkins, Nia Vardalos, Cory Hardrict, Chris Mulkey, & George Lopez
• Carrie Pilby – directed by Susan Johnson, starring Bel Powley, Vanessa Bayer, Colin O’Donoghue, William Moseley, Jason Ritter, Gabriel Byrne, & Nathan Lane
• Catfight – directed by Onur Tukel, starring Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone, Amy Hill, Tituss Burgess, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Ariel Kavoussi, Craig Bierko, & Dylan Baker
• CHiPs – directed by & starring Dax Shepard, with Dax Shepard, Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Adam Brody, & Vincent D’Onofrio
• Churchill – directed by Jonathan Teplitzky, starring Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Ella Purnell, & James Purefoy
• Collide – directed by Eran Creevy, starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Marwan Kenzari, Ben Kingsley, & Anthony Hopkins
• Contemporary Color – directed by Turner Ross & Bill Ross IV, starring David Byrne – documentary
• A Cure for Wellness – directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Harry Groener, Celia Imrie, & Adrian Schiller
• The Discovery – directed by Charlie McDowell, starring Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough, & Ron Canada
• A Dog’s Purpose – directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Britt Robertson, KJ Apa, John Ortiz, Dennis Quaid, & Josh Gad
• Donald Cried – directed by Kristopher Avedisian, starring Kristopher Avedisian, Jesse Wakeman, Louisa Krause, & Ted Arcidi
• Fifty Shades Darker – directed by James Foley, starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes, Victor Rasuk, Kim Basinger, & Marcia Gay Harden
• Fist Fight – directed by Richie Keen, starring Ice Cube, Charlie Day, Tracy Morgan, Jillian Bell, Dean Norris, Christina Hendricks, & Dennis Haysbert
• The Florida Project – directed by Sean Baker, starring Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Kimberly Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, & Caleb Landry Jones
• Gangster Land – directed by Timothy Woodward Jr., starring Sean Faris, Milo Gibson, Jason Patric, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, & Peter Facinelli
• Get Out – directed by Jordan Peele, starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, & Catherine Keener
• Ghost in the Shell – directed by Rupert Sanders, starring Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han, & Juliette Binoche
• The Great Wall* – directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, & Andy Lau
• Growing Up Smith – directed by Frank Lotito, starring Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino, Hilarie Burton, & Roni Akurati
• iBoy – directed by Adam Randall, starring Bill Milner, Maisie Williams, Jordan Bolger, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Aymen Hamdouchi, Miranda Richardson, & Rory Kinnear
• I Am Michael – directed by Justin Kelly, starring James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts, & Charlie Carver
• I Am Not Your Negro – directed by Raoul Peck, narrated by Samuel L. Jackson – documentary
• I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore – directed by Macon Blair, starring Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, & Devon Graye
• John Wick: Chapter 2* – directed by Chad Stahelski, starring Keanu Reeves, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, Lance Reddick, Peter Stormare, Bridget Moynahan, Franco Nero, John Leguizamo, & Ian McShane
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable – Chapter 1 – directed by Takashi Miike, starring Kento Yamazaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nana Komatsu, Masaki Okada, Mackenyu Arata, Takayuki Yamada, & Yusuke Iseya – Japan
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer – directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, & Bill Camp
• Kong: Skull Island – directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Terry Notary, & John C. Reilly
• Lady Bird* – distracted by Greta Gerwig, starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen McKinley Henderson, & Lois Smith
• The Last Word – directed by Mark Pellington, starring Shirley MacLaine, AnnJewel Lee Dixon, Anne Heche, Tom Everett Scott, Thomas Sadoski, Joel Murray, & Adina Porter
• The Lego Batman Movie* – directed by Chris McKay, starring the voices of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, & Ralph Fiennes
• Lies We Tell – directed by Mitu Misra, starring Gabriel Byrne, Sibylla Deen, Harvey Keitel, Mark Addy, Jan Uddin, Reece Ritchie, Emily Atack, Danica Johnson, Gina McKee, & Sammy Winward – UK
• Life – directed by Daniel Espinoza, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, & Olga Dihovichnaya
• Logan* – directed by James Mangold, starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, & Dafne Keen
• Lost in Florence – directed by Evan Oppenheimer, starring Brett Dalton, Alessandra Mastronardi, Alessandro Preziosi, & Stana Katic
• Loving Vincent – directed by Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman, starring the voices of Robert Gulaczyk, Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd, John Sessions, Eleanor Tomlinson, &Aidan Turner
• Lovesong – directed by So Yong Kim, starring Jena Malone, Riley Keough, Brooklyn Decker, Amy Seimetz, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Eggold, & Rosanna Arquette
• The Marine 5: Battleground – directed by James Nunn, starring The Miz, Maryse Ouellet Mizanin, Curtis Axel, Heath Slater, Bo Dallas, & Naomi
• Madame – directed by Amanda Sthers, starring Harvey Keitel, Toni Collette, Rossy de Palma, Michael Smiley, Brendan Patricks, Sonia Rolland, Stanislas Merhar, Sue Cann, Tom Hughes, & Joséphine de La Baume – France
• Monster Trucks – directed by Chris Wedge, starring Lucas Till, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Rob Lowe, Danny Glover, Barry Pepper, Thomas Lennon, & Holt McCallany
• Okja – directed by Bong Joon Ho, starring Ahn Seo-hyun, Byun Hee-bong, Yoon Je-moon, Choi Woo-shik, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, Giancarlo Esposito, & Jake Gyllenhaal – South Korea
• On Chesil Beach – directed by Dominic Cooke, starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, & Adrian Scarborough
• Once Upon a Time in Venice – directed by Mark Cullen, starring Bruce Willis, Jason Momoa, John Goodman, Thomas Middleditch, Famke Janssen, Adam Goldberg, & Jessica Gomes
• Paddington 2 – directed by Paul King, starring the voice of Ben Wishaw, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, & Hugh Grant – UK
• The Party – directed by Sally Potter, starring Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, & Timothy Spall – UK
• Phantom Thread – directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Brian Gleeson, Harriet Sansom Harris, & Gina McKee
• Power Rangers* – directed by Dean Israelite, starring Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston, & Elizabeth Banks
• Rememory – directed by Mark Palansky, starring Peter Dinklage, Julia Ormond, Anton Yelchin, Henry Ian Cusick, Gracyn Shinyei & Colin Lawrence
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter* – directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Ruby Rose, & William Levy
• The Resurrection of Gavin Stone – directed by Dallas Jenkins, starring Brett Dalton, Anjelah Johnson, Neil Flynn, Shawn Michaels, & D.B. Sweeney
• Rings – directed by F. Javier Gutiérez, starring Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan, & Vincent D’Onofrio
• Rock Dog – directed by Ash Brannon, starring the voices of Luke Wilson, J.K. Simmons, Eddie Izzard, Lewis Black, Kenan Thompson, Mae Whitman, Jorge Garcia, Matt Dillon, & Sam Elliott
• Roman J. Israel, Esq. – directed by Dan Gilroy, starring Denzel Washington & Colin Farrell
• The Shack – directed by Stuart Hazeldine, starring Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Graham Greene, Radha Mitchell, Alice Braga, Sumire Matsubara, Aviv Alush, & Tim McGraw
• The Shape of Water* – directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, & Octavia Spencer
• Sleepless – directed by Baran bo Odar, starring Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, David Harbour, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Gabrielle Union, & Scoot McNairy
• Song to Song – directed by Terrence Malick, starring Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, & Holly Hunter
• Sophie and the Rising Sun – directed by Maggie Greenwald, starring Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Lorraine Toussaint, & Karen Wheeling Reynolds
• The Space Between Us – directed by Peter Chelsom, starring Gary Oldman, Asa Butterfield, Carla Gugino, Britt Robertson, BD Wong, & Janet Montgomery
• Spider-Man: Homecoming* – directed by John Watts, starring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Angourie Rice, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, & Robert Downey Jr.
• Split – directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, & Betty Buckley
• Table 19 – directed by Jeffrey Blitz, starring Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Tony Revolori, Wyatt Russell, & Amanda Crew
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – directed by Martin McDonagh, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Željko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving, Peter Dinklage, & Kathryn Newton
• Three Christs – directed by Jon Avnet, starring Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins, Bradley Whitford, Charlotte Hope, Kevin Pollak, & Julianna Margulies
• Transformers: The Last Night – directed by Michael Bay, starring Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins, & John Turturro, with the voices of Peter Cullen, Gemma Chan, Erik Aadahl, Jim Carter, Omar Sy, Ken Watanabe, John Goodman, John DiMaggio, Reno Wilson, Jess Harnell, Tom Kenny, Steve Buscemi, Steven Barr, Mark Ryan, & Frank Welker
• Trespass Against Us – directed by Adam Smith, starring Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Killian Scott, Rory Kinnear, & Sean Harris
• Underworld: Blood Wars – directed by Anna Foerster, Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Lara Pulver, James Faulkner, & Charles Dance
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – directed by Luc Besson, starring starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Rutger Hauer, & the voice of John Goodman
• Wilson – directed by Craig Johnson, starring Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Isabella Amara, Judy Greer, & Cheryl Hines
• XX – directed by Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, & Karyn Kusama, starring Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, & Christina Kirk – anthology
• XXX: The Return of Xander Cage – directed by D.J. Caruso, starring Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Deepika Padukone, Kris Wu, Ruby Rose, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Toni Collette, Ariadna Gutiérrez, Hermione Corfield, & Samuel L. Jackson
• The Yellow Birds – directed by Alexandre Moors, starring Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, Jack Huston, & Jennifer Aniston
• Youth in Oregon – directed by Joel David Moore, starring Frank Langella, Billy Crudup, Christina Applegate, Nicola Peltz, Mary Kay Place, Josh Lucas, & Will Janowitz
• The Zookeeper’s Wife – directed by Niki Caro, starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, & Michael McElhatton

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019