That’s not an easy thing to do, so hats and whatever other apparel off on that count. A Bad Moms Christmas: The sexiest moments in this raunchy comedy sequel are also the funniest. The scene with Cicely Tyson, when each old warrior discovers how to still make personal sacrifices for the cause, is an American beauty.Ĥ. And when you have such experts as Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell as three aging Vietnam vets talking top trash and wrestling with their grief, words become a pleasure even if they’re not zinged with that inimitable, Badass Buddusky spin. Like his “Before” trilogy and numerous other works, “Flag” is at its best when it’s just people sitting around gabbing.

Last Flag Flying: It’s no “Last Detail,” but what other film can be? Forty-four years after that Jack Nicholson classic, this honorable pseudo-sequel plays to the strengths of director Richard Linklater. Still, great spectacle, and it is relentlessly. While comedy director Taika Waititi brings a load of genuinely clever angles to the Thunder God’s third solo outing – weird bro bonding between Thor and The Hulk (with the latter’s Bruce Banner persona, like he’s jealous or something, getting all bent out of shape about it), Cate Blanchett’s villainous Hela dressed to the nines and cranking it past 11, even imagining a role for Jeff Goldblum at his Goldblumiest – dramatic tension in a film whose subtitle means end of the world is diffused by all the merriment. Thor: Ragnarok: Marvel movies try a little too hard to have fun sometimes, and that’s the case here. Cate Blanchett as Hela, Goddess of Death in “Thor: Ragnarok”Ģ.

There’s little that’s particularly unique about Ronan’s title character or her various relatives, friends and lovers, but a vibrant realism makes them and everything about this movie remarkable – and kind of exhilarating. All over the place emotionally and note perfect about it at all times, actress Greta Gerwig’s solo writing-directing debut makes you feel like you’re seeing every new teenage experience for the first time. Lady Bird: Is Saoirse Ronan aging in reverse? Following her outstanding performance as a young immigrant woman in 2015’s “Brooklyn,” the 23-year-old Irish actress is even more convincing as a Sacramento high school senior in this smartly detailed production. openings, in descending order of how much I liked ’em, is one place to start.ġ. Genuine pleasure should be abundant if you know where to look for it. Or, at least, they’ll try to convince us that from now until the end of the year, it’s all gonna be the most entertaining and worthwhile movies we’ve ever seen. It’s November, so both the major studios and people who care about the art of cinema are starting to roll out their best-made products.

Movies from 2017 that are worth seeing