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Rafael Motamayor lists the best movies that may have went under your radar this year... 2017 was a great year for movies, and you can't convince me of the contrary!

«2017 has been a great year for movies, and our awards this year reflect that,» said Seattle Film Critics Society President Mike Ward.

Like I've said, 2017 was a great year for movies and those being celebrated at the Oscars all deserved their spots.

2017 continues to be a great year for movie lovers and movie goers as long lists of much awaited sequels and instalments are about to be released this year.

1993 was a great year for movies.

Not exact matches

Responsible for some of the greatest visual effects pulled off on screen in the last 40 years, he's done everything from James Bond movies like «Moonraker» and «GoldenEye,» to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and «Inception» (which he won an Oscar for).

Believe it or not, there are some great movies from the last year that didn't receive any nominations for the Academy Awards, which will air later this February.

2016 was a pretty great year for movies.

In most years, summer is a great time for relaxing with a beach novel and enjoying a good action movie.

We started this about six years ago and it allows me to have a platform for independent films, films that we're passionate about, and find a bigger audience for great, cool emerging talent and up - and - coming movies,» League continues.

It all started with my love for fashion which I have carried on for over three decades in that industry, really beginning in my earliest childhood years when hamming up and modeling my birthday - gifted outfits for my Dad's movie camera were my greatest pleasure!

The Big Short is a great movie to explain the mortgage - securities crisis of few years ago (i.e. people getting approved for mortgages they can not afford to pay, but which banks made money on nevertheless by bundling them together).

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For years I thought this movie was great, but it's jokes only hit half of the time and everyone seems to be over-acting.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

This movie is worth seeing for the three heavies, they are great and it's 15 years before Bogie and Holden teamed up for Sabrina.Sadly this film is hampered by the Hayes Code crime does not pay rule.

There was a great opportunity for the meta element here, considering the changes in horror movies along the past ten years, but this useless reboot is never original and basically redoes the same slasher of fifteen years ago.

With stunning performances from its cast, the film occur during the First World War, and it shows us the chaos, and considering the fact that this was made in 1930, it's an impressive feat in filmmaking, as what we have here is a picture that captures the fear and agony of combat, and it's a well made movie for its time, and it still looks great after all these years.

Of course, Wall - E still went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their top prize.

The Aviator is a well made film, and one of the year's best, with enough great moments to make the three hours not seem so long, although some trimming down of certain characters and scenes could still be done (Jude Law's cameo as Errol Flynn seems to be just an excuse to get him in the movie for a few minutes).

Three years later, 1999, I had met and married my wife and was taking for granted a genuinely great year at the movies.

It won't be long before this movie's late - game success has journos pushing the narrative that it's a great film year for women, and thanks to Bigelow, it may very well be.

Get Out is a great movie, and one of the few I saw this year that made me think for a long while about the story I tell myself about the life I live.

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

2 (Gunn) After the Storm (Kore - eda) Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (Smith) God's Own Country (Lee) Lost in Paris (Abel and Gordon) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh) A Quiet Passion (Davies) Logan Lucky (Soderbergh) 1922 (Hilditch) Cars 3 (Fee) Betting on Zero (Braun) People You May Know (Shilati) D + Wonderstruck (Haynes) T2 Trainspotting (Boyle) Raw (Ducournau) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (Ritchie) It Comes at Night (Shults) Win It All (Swanberg) I Love You, Daddy (C.K.) Atomic Blonde (Leitch) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Besson) Alien: Covenant (Scott) Before I Fall (Russo - Young) Rough Night (Aniello) Take Me (Healy) Patti Cake $ (Jasper) A Cure for Wellness (Verbinski) Last Flag Flying (Linklater) The Big Sick (Showalter) The Babysitter (McG) To the Bone (Noxon) The Little Hours (Baena) Queen of the Desert (Herzog) Casting JonBenét (Green) D Personal Shopper (Assayas) A Ghost Story (Lowery) It's Only the End of the World (Dolan) Bright (Ayer) I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (Blair) Good Time (The Safdies) The Lovers (Jacobs) Tulip Fever (Chadwick) The Bad Batch (Amirpour) The Vault (Bush) The Dinner (Moverman) Beauty and the Beast (Condon) War Machine (Michôd) Song to Song (Malick) War on Everything (McDonagh) Kong: Skull Island (Vogt - Roberts) Death Note (Wingard) The Mummy (Kurtzman) Girls Trip (Lee) Okja (Bong) Despicable Me 3 (Balda, Coffin and Guillon) Little Evil (Craig) Catfight (Tukel) Transformers: The Last Knight (Bay) Manifesto (Rosefeldt) D - Slack Bay (Dumont) iBoy (Randall) The 101 - Year - Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (The Herngrens) XX (Benjamin, Clark, Kusama and Vuckovic) Woodshock (The Mulleavys) Super Dark Times (Phillips) The Layover (Macy) Fifty Shades Darker (Foley) The Boss Baby (McGrath) xXx: Return of Xander Cage (Caruso) F The Emoji Movie (Leondis) Shimmer Lake (Uziel) The Incredible Jessica James (Strouse) Baywatch (Gordon) Sandy Wexler (Brill)

For as great as Hanks is in the role, however, the real highlight is the movie's gripping reenactment of the Miracle on the Hudson, which is hands - down one of the best sequences of the year.

Trust me, it's a great movie, and one you'll be able to see by the end of the year because Sony Pictures Classics picked up the film for domestic distribution.

However, it was a great year for horror movies.

Though Martin Scorsese finally won his first Oscar for the 2006 crime thriller, «The Departed,» after decades of being snubbed, it should have happened 16 years earlier with «Goodfellas,» which is hands - down one of the greatest gangster movies ever made.

Steven Spielberg has been trying to set up a movie based on the political career of The Great Emancipator himself, Abraham Lincoln, for quite a while now, but ran into some complications earlier this year when Liam Neeson, who had been signed on for the lead role, dropped out of the project.

The movie isn't without its flaws — for instance, there isn't enough narrative meat to justify its 137 - minute runtime (let alone the even longer director's cut)-- but it's packed with so many great thrills that it's not surprising why «Aliens» remains as popular as ever 30 years later.

It's an incredibly interesting compilation of the last 16 years of film, though, and certainly shows that we are living in a great, ever - evolving time for movies.

M. Night Shyamalan has had some great movies here and there, but due to his many recent failures, he has been looked upon mostly negatively for the last few years.

Related Reviews: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: 25th Anniversary Edition (1977) New to DVD: The Secret of NIMH: Family Fun Edition (1982) • Silver Spoons: The Complete First Season (1982 - 83) The Fox and the Hound: 25th Anniversary Edition (1981) • Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition (1973) The Little Mermaid: Platinum Edition (1989) • The Aristocats: Gold Collection (1970) • The Jungle Book: Limited Issue (1967) Dumbo: Big Top Edition (1941) • 101 Dalmatians (1961) • Lady and the Tramp: Platinum Edition (1955) The Rescuers (1977) • Bambi: Platinum Edition (1942) • Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995) The Muppet Show: Season One (1976 - 77) • Freaky Friday (1977) • Pete's Dragon (1977) The Cat From Outer Space (1978) • The Shaggy D.A. (1976) • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) Winnie the Pooh on Disney DVD: Sequel: Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) • Sing a Song with Pooh Bear and Piglet Too (2003) Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) • Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh: A Great Day of Discovery • Friends Forever • It's Playtime with Pooh • Love & Friendship Disney Learning Adventures: Winnie the Pooh - Shapes & Sizes • Disney Learning Adventures: Winnie the Pooh - Wonderful Word Adventure

With apologies to Minority Report, the year's most visually breathtaking action movie was China's Hero, a ravishing post-Crouching Tiger wuxia epic with an oddly pro-empire message and a stunning cast of Hong Kong legends, including Jet Li, who took a break from making dumb American B - movies for long enough to anchor something great.

The movie was once poised to have an amazing opening weekend, taking into consideration the film is 10 years within the making, the end result of 18 motion pictures prior to now launched through Marvel Studios, all tied in combination for this newest movie in opposition to the galaxy's greatest risk but — the mad Titan, Thanos.

Shot for $ 17 million (before marketing etc.), it's a great start for the movie, already being hailed as one of the best of the year.

Two years ago, I noted in my review for A Teacher that Hannah Fiddel had a great movie inside her waiting to be made.

i think Naomi Watts for the Edgar Hoover has a great shot of being nominated next year.A Clint Eastwood movie does wonders for its actors.plus being a bit overdue with the goodwill from last year for fair game makes her a strong contender.

2016 has proven to be a terrible year for life in general but a great one at the movies — even if we have had an abundance of true clunkers.

Look at so called «Film Twitter» or any of the great sites for film writing and you'll see the same story being written to death over the past two or three years: we're just not getting exciting movies, nothing like what made us all passionate about the medium twenty years ago, and there are no mid-size entertainments anymore.

And while the cast is wall - to - wall great, what's notable (for genre fans, anyway) is that the title character is played by none other than Anya Taylor - Joy, who broke out in this year's hit horror movie The Witch — only now it looks like she's the one doing the tormenting.

There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best Director nomination following last year's Arrival.

The Sessions Promised Land Broken City Side Effects Amour Take This Waltz Beasts of the Southern Wild Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Oz, The Great and Powerful Side By Side A Separation Wreck - It Ralph Compliance Admission The Silence The Prodigal Son Evil Dead Flashdance Days of Heaven Jurassic Park 3D Double Indemnity Room 237 To the Wonder The Place Beyond the Pines ParaNorman Iron Man 3 The Paperboy The Great Gatsby Bernie Star Trek Into Darkness Oblivion Now You Seen Me All Good Things End of Watch Lars and the Real Girl The Way Way Back Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil Behind the Candelabra Man of Steel Beautiful Creatures Stoker Not Fade Away Identity Thief Mama This is the End V / H / S The Heat White House Down The Exorcism of Emily Rose World War Z The Blue Umbrella Monsters University Despicable Me Modern Times The Conjuring Red Pacific Rim The Wolverine We're the Millers Fruitvale Station Lee Daniels» The Butler Seven Psychopaths Bachelorette Blue Jasmine Chronicle Like Crazy The Spectacular Now Austenland Hot Fuzz The World's End Best Worst Movie The Possession Isidious: Chapter 2 Prisoners Anna Karenina Don Jon Enough Said V / H / S / 2 The Ward Gravity Captain Phillips Nebraska Honeymoon Suite We Are What We Are Winter in the Blood Truth or Blood The Search for Simon Ghost Light They Will Outlive Us All Hot «n Bothered Casual Encounters A Better Life Mud 12 Years a Slave Much Ado About Nothing (2013) About Time Thor: The Dark World Only God Forgives Frances Ha Salinger Dallas Buyers Club JFK The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Frozen Philomena Parkland Delivery Man Prince Avalanche The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Upstream Color Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa What Maisie Knew The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) Lovelace Saving Mr. Banks The Secret Life of Walter Mitty August: Osage County The Wolf of Wall Street American Hustle

I have to be honest here and admit that in recent years my relationship with Leigh's film - making has become a little frayed, and yet I'll always be grateful to him for showing me that great movies could take place in a recognisable Britain.