2017 Films, Alphabetically (with grades)
Monday, December 25, 2017 at 9:23AM 116 Films Screened
Title (Director) Grade* Review
Last Update: 02/28/2018
Grades represented Nathaniel's take (they do not always correlate with the reviews themselves if another contributor wrote it)
104 THEATRICAL OR STREAMING RELEASE
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Abundant Acreage Available (Angus Maclachlan) B- Review
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott) C+ Review
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch) B+ Review, Podcast
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright) B+ Review
Bad Batch, The (Ana Lily Armipour) C-/D+ Review
Battle of the Sexes (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris) B+ Podcast, Capsule
Baywatch (Seth Gordon) D+ Reviewish
Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman) B Review, Podcast
Beauty and the Beast (Bill Condon) C- Review
Beguiled, The (Sofia Coppola) B- Podcast,
Big Sick, The (Michael Showalter) B Review
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve) B Capsule, Short Films
Bombshell: The Story of Hedy Lamarr (Alexandra Dean) B Review
Boss Baby (Tom McGrath) B Review
BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo) A Review
Breadwinner, The (Nora Twomey) B² Review
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) B+² "I'm Armie", on intimacy
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (David Soren) B-
Catfight (Onur Tikel) C+ Review, 2nd Opinion
Coco (Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina B+ Review, Feeling Seen
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) C+ Review, Production Design
Commune, The (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark) B+ Review
Darkest Hour (Joe Wright) B+³ Review
Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson, The (David France) C+ Review
Detroit (Katherine Bigelow) C+ Podcast
Disaster Artist, The (James Franco) C
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) B Review
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan) B Podcast
Fantastic Woman, A (Sebastian Lelio) B+ Review
Fifty Shades Darker (James Foley) C- Reviewish
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (Paul McGuigan) B² Capsule
Florida Project, The (Sean Baker) A- Chris's Review, Jason's Take
Frantz (François Ozon, France) B+ Review, Production Design
Get Out (Jordan Peele) A-² Review, Production Design
Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders) C+
Gifted (Marc Webb) B-
Girls Trip (Malcolm D Lee) B Review, Podcast
Glass Castle, The (Destin Cretton) C Review
God's Own Country (Francis Lee) B+ Best Actors
Greatest Showman, The (Michael Gracey) B² Review, Another Musical Hit
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) B- Review
Handsome Devil (Robert Butler, Ireland) B Review, Interview
Hero, The (Brett Haley) C+
iBoy (Adam Randall) D-
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer) B+ Review, on the screenplay
It (Andy Muschietti) B- Review
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) C- Review
Justice League (Zach Snyder) C- Review
Kedi (Ceyda Torun) A- Review, 2nd Opinion
Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) B Review
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts) C Review
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) A² Review, 2nd Opinon
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) B+ Review
Land of Mine (Martin Pieter Zandvliet) B Interview
Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater) C+ Capsule, Podcast
Lego Batman (Chris McKay) B-
Life (Daniel Espinosa) C+ Review
Logan (James Mangold) B Review
Lost City of Z (James Gray) B Review, 2nd Opinion, Production Design
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) B+/A- Capsule
Lovers, The (Azazel Jacobs) B+ Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) D+ Review
Menashe (Joshua Weinstein) B- Review
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin) C+
mother! (Darren Aronofsky) ABCDF² Review, Podcast
Mountain Between Us (Hany Abu-Assad) C- Review
Mudbound (Dee Rees) B- Capsule, Review, 2nd Opinion
Murder on the Orient Express (Kenneth Branagh) C
My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell) B- Podcast
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw) C+ Review
Novitiate (Maggie Betts) B- Review
Okja (Bong Joon-ho) B- Reviewish
Ornithologist, The (Joao Pedro Rodrigues) B Review
Paris 05:59 (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau) B Review, 2nd Opinion
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas) B Review
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) B
Post, The (Steven Spielberg) B Review
Power Rangers (Dean Israelite) D+
Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) B+
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson) B Podcast
Roman J Israel Esq Dan Gilroy C+ on Denzel
Sense of an Ending, The (Ritesh Batra) C+ Review, Interview
Shape of Water, The (Guillermo del Toro) B Capsule
Snatched (Jonathan Levine) C Review
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts) B- Review, Podcast
Split (M Night Shyamalan) C+ Interview
Square, The (Ruben Ostlund) B
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) B² Review, Queer Take, Podcast, Top Box Office of the Year
Sweet Virginia (Jamie M Dagg) B Review
Thelma (Joachim Trier) B+/A- Review
Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi) B+ Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (Martin McDonagh) B Review
Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski) C+
Victoria and Abdul (Stephen Frears) B- Capsule
Wall, The (Doug Liman) C+
War of the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves) B
Wedding Plan, The (Rama Burshtein) B+
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) B Review
Wonder (Stephen Chbosky) B
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen) B Podcast
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins) B+² Review, Alamo Drafthouse, Ten Fav Things
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) B Review
Wound, The (John Trengrove) C+
Zookeeper's Wife, The (Niki Caro) B Review
11 UNRELEASED. (NO US DISTRIBUTION)
ICE MOTHER
Euphoria (Lisa Langseth) C Review Future Perfect, The (Nele Wohlatz, Argentina) A- Review (TBA) Happiness Academy (Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, France) B- Review (TBA) Ice Mother (Bohdan Sláma) B (TBA) Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert) B+ Review TBA, Mary Shelley (Haifaa al-Mansour) C+ Review (TBA), Seen and Unseen, The (Kamila Andini) A- Review (TBA), Sexy Durga (Sanalkumar Sasidharan) D+ Review (TBA), On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi) B+ Review (streaming only but in 2018) Sheikh Jackson (Amr Salama) B- Review (TBA), Spoor (Agnieska Holland) B (TBA)
NATHANIEL DID NOT SEE BUT REVIEWED BY A TEAM MEMBER
THEATRICALLY RELEASED OR STREAMING
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James) Glenn's Review
All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott) Chris' Review
Brad's Status (Mike White) Murtada's Review
Casting Jon Benet (Kitty Green) Glenn's Review
Circle, The (James Ponsoldt) Eric's Review
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Jason's Review
Contemporary Color (Bill & Turner Ross) Glenn's Review
A Cure For Wellness (Gore Verbinski) Spencer's Review
Dark Tower, The (Nikolaj Arcel) Chris's Review
Death of Louis XIV, The (Albert Serra) Bill's Review
Emoji Movie, The (Tony Leondis) Sean's Review
Everything Everything (Stella Meghie) Chris's Review
Exception, The (David Leveaux) Jason's Review
Faces Places (Agnes Varda & JR) Murtada's Review
First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie) Nick's Review
Five Came Back (Laurent Bouzereau) Glenn's Review
Gaga Five Foot Two (Chris Moukarbel) Glenn's Review
God Knows Where I Am (Jed & Todd Wider) Glenn's Review
Good Time (Safdie Brothers) Spencer's Review
Happy End (Michael Haneke) Chris's Review
Inconvenient Sequel, An (Bonnie Cohen & Jon Shenk) Glenn's Review
It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults) Chris's Review
Jane (Brett Morgen) Glenn's Review
Last Man in Aleppo (Firas Fayyad) Glenn's Review
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Chris's Review
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh) Chris's Review
My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers) Jason's Review
Obit (Vanessa Gould) Glenn's Review
One of Us (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady) Glenn's Review
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean) Glenn's Review
Risky Business (Laura Poitras) Glenn's Review
The Snowman (Tomas Alfredson) Eric's Review
Song to Song (Terence Malick) Eric's Review
Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips) Jason's Review
Strong Island (Yance Ford) Glenn's Review
Table 19 (Jeffrey Blitz) Chris's Review
Thirst Street (Nathan Silver) Jason's Review
Thy Father's Chair (Alex Lora & Antonio Tibaldi) Glenn's Review
Unforgettable (Denise di Novi) Jorge's Review
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson) Dan's Review
Wilson (Daniel Clowes) Spencer's Review
Woodshock (Kate and Laura Mulleavy) Chris's Review
UNRELEASED
Documentaries at 2017 Slamdance Glenn's Review, All This Panic (Jenny Gage) Glenn's Review, Departure (Andrew Steggall) Glenn's Review, Dog Years (Adam Rifkin) Jason's Review, Hounds of Love (Ben Young) Jason's Review, Never Steady Never Still (Kathleen Hepburn) Sean's Review), Nobody's Watching (Julia Solomonoff) Jason's Review , Pilgrimage (Brendan Muldowney) Jason's Review, Political Animals (Jonah Markowitz & Tracy Wares) Glenn's Review, Psychopaths (Mickey Keating) Jason's Review, Revenge (Coralie Fargeat) Chris's Review, Rock'n'Roll (Guillauime Canet) Jason's Review, Tigre (Ulises Porra & Sylvia Schnicer) Sean's Review, Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Jennifer M Kroot) Glenn's Review,
