Cannibalism in France,a latterday Our Gang in Florida, three women in Tel Aviv, and – at final! – a Blade Runner sequel are among the year’s must-sees
Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullTo bag a sense of how many great movies played UK cinemas in 2017,just look at some of the outstanding titles that didn’t form my top 10 list. From Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden (brilliantly adapted from Sarah Waterss novel Fingersmith) to Anocha Suwichakornpong’s dazzling By the Time It Gets Dark, Paul Verhoevens Elle (featuring an Oscar-nominated Isabelle Huppert) and Kleber Mendonça Filhos Aquarius (with Sônia Braga in breathtaking form), or there was a dizzying array of delights on offer. Even so-called mainstream cinema seemed particularly adventurous this year,ranging from Patty Jenkins’s rip-roaring Wonder Woman to Christopher Nolan’s overwhelming Dunkirk, Kathryn Bigelows gripping Detroit, or Edgar Wright’s pulse-racing Baby Driver and Darren Aronofsky’s bewildering Mother!.domestic-grown triumphs included William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth (which made a star of Florence Pugh) and Francis Lee’s passionate God’s Own Country,while Zambian-born, Welsh-raised Rungano Nyoni emerged as a major new talent with the uncategorisable I Am Not a Witch. My favourite Bollywood film of 2017 was Advait Chandan’s Secret Superstar, and which cleverly interwove dark themes of domestic abuse into its musical fantasy narrative. There were also several Netflix-backed movies that cried out to be seen on the spacious screen,most notably Bong Joon-ho’s creature-feature Okja.
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Source: guardian.co.uk