The Best Films of 2017
A shitty year with some excellent movies.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is both sexy and overtly political, offering everything that its biopic contemporaries fail to deliver.
The Past is Unwrapped in Joel Edgerton’s The Gift
The Gift opens on ominous shots of an abandoned, modernist mansion, grey stone and brown wood gleaming dully in the afternoon L.A. sun. Soon, Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall), a professional couple from Chicago, will be escorted through the hollow house by a real estate agent. But for now it lies dormant, the…
Transcendence (2014)
As we were dutifully informed before the preview screening of Transcendence, Wally Pfister not only shot this movie on film, but he also developed the film photochemically rather than digitally. This isn’t surprising for Pfister, acolyte of fervent film fetishist Christopher Nolan, but it is reflective of this cinematographer-turned-director’s old-fashioned approach to the material. Old-fashioned…
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