![]() Top 20 Best Netflix Original Series, Ranked From Great to Phenomenal (Photos) Kelly Ripa’s 205 Guest Co-Hosted Best Horror Movies 2016. Ha, I literally added it just as you were posting this. It’s in the number 2 spot (given how good its advance reviews are). Awards season is nearly upon us, but you may have missed many of the best movies of 2016. Film critic Peter Travers, who has seen nearly 400 movies this year, put. The Best and Worst of WWE Raw for November 7, 2016, featuring a trip to Scotland and three champions losing for some reason. Best and Worst Movies of 2. Awards season is nearly upon us, but you may have missed many of the best movies of 2. It’s your guide to all the films you still need to make time to see and those you should avoid. But the soon- to- be retired sheriff stands in their way. Joel Edgerton is the husband. Ruth Negga is the wife. Two better performances would be hard to find. BET Awards 2016: 20 Best and Worst Moments. Beyoncé stomps, Prince is honored and more. 2016 officially kicked off Hollywood's Heroic Age with the release of 6 Superhero Movies. Here the year's releases ranked from worst to best. Tomatometer rankings of the top 100 best movies of 2016 and all time. Lists of recent good movies and award winners. The MTV Video Music Awards have a deserved reputation for being a place where fashion can wander off the main road for a while. The artists hardly ever disappoint the. Critics tend to see all the same good movies and none of the same bad ones. That’s the major difference between a best-of-the-year staff list and a worst-of-the. Was 2016 a good year for movies? We've seen a variety of opinions on both sides of the argument, but one thing is clear: it was indeed a great year for great films.So look this one up and definitely see it. It stars Tom Hanks as American Captain Chesley . New York. 6. The film centers on Jacqueline Kennedy the week after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Great performance and not just a great performance but a great movie. New York City. They go to Japan to try to find out what happened to their mentor, a priest played by Liam Neeson. But it is so worth it. Directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson. It tells the story of one boy who grew up in the Miami projects who's gay, who's an outsider, who feels that he can't reach out to anybody in love. He's played by three separate actors at different ages. How is a miracle of a movie like this possible?'. It sounds like it's serious to the extreme and it isn't. It makes you believe that you're watching a life that's actually being lived, not a Hollywood version of anything, just terrific in every way. But I'm picking 'La La Land,' which is written and directed by a young man, Damien Chazelle, who has said to himself, 'I'm going to reinvent the musical. I'm tired of everybody just being nostalgic about what it's going to be. I'm going to cast Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. I'm going to set it in LA right now. And I'm going to make what musicals meant to people - - in terms of their beauty, in terms of their yearning, in terms of how they make you feel. And I am going to do it with all the technique I have at my disposal,'. He doesn't have the experience to do this. And yet what he does is to basically reinvent cinema for now. Let's make it fresh.' There isn't a fresher, more live movie in 2. La La Land.'. This is a movie so desperate to be funny that it never is. You can thank me later. It just made me want to scream and look at the screen itself and say, 'Make it stop!'. The same ensemble of actors, including Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska, returns for this installment, but according to Travers, the vibe is not the same. It's directed by Ron Howard. You could tell Tom Hanks' heart isn't in it. There was more chemistry in the false rumors that he and Marion Cotillard were having a thing off camera, which they both denied. In that, there was some energy. In the movie, there was nothing. Travers said the storyline itself makes you want to bolt for the exits and added, . They deserve a stake through the heart. We're supposed to feel for them. The 1. 0 Best Movies of Summer 2. It wasn’t the best summer movie season. Okay, so it wasn’t even a good summer movie season. Okay okay, so it was one of the worst summer movie seasons in recent memory. Trying to find the good blockbusters amongst the last four months’ releases sometimes felt like trying to find a needle in a stack of garbage covered in vomit. But even this year there were diamonds in the rough. Today we’re celebrating the ten best; the summer movies of 2. We’ll have a separate piece on under- the- radar summer films you might have missed next week on Screen. Crush. In the meantime, let’s celebrate the highlights from a crummy summer before we clear the decks and get ready for the fall. In alphabetical order, the best movies of summer 2. Captain America: Civil War. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. I’m still not convinced that the cinematic universe model can work for anyone else, but it’s definitely working for Marvel. Over the course of a dozen movies, the comic- book giant has built a rich foundation to tell stories on the big screen; the third Captain America continued plot threads from the previous Cap and Avengers films to craft a compelling philosophical debate between Steve Rogers (peerlessly virtuous Chris Evans) and Tony Stark (peerlessly snarky Robert Downey Jr.) about the right way to respond to threats. Developing characters, delivering massive superhero action, teasing future movies like Black Panther and Spider- Man: Homecoming; Marvel and the Russo brothers made it all look easy. Civil War’s mostly dreadful competition this year showed that crafting this kind of massive entertainment is anything but. That made the arrival of something as delightful, cheery, and tender as Florence Foster Jenkins all the more welcome. The rare period piece on our list, Florence offered an escape from our harsh times. But even outside of that context, Stephen Frears’ sentimental look at one of the world’s worst singers is as lovely as the elaborate gowns Meryl Streep wears during her pitch- perfect performance as the off- pitch title crooner. It’ll give you some good belly laughs and put a few tears in your eyes, and these days that’s all I ask of a good movie. Kubo and the Two Strings isn’t just masterful storytelling; it’s a meditation on the stories we tell, and a brilliant subversions of our expectations about what a hero’s journey should look like. Laika transforms familiar themes of loss, hope, and family into a poignant experience that reflects on the creation of stories — and what it means to live them. But this Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne comedy turned out to be the most refreshing surprise of the season. The movie used a gender- swapping gimmick to subvert the sexism of the Greek system (and most bro comedies), and offered a thoughtful commentary on feminism and male sexuality. Best of all, Neighbors 2 didn’t sacrifice humor to become an issues movie, proving self- awareness and progressive storytelling can coexist with raunchy jokes. Elle Fanning is fascinating in the role of an aspiring model who subtly transforms from doe- eyed naif to disaffected narcissist, becoming a point of violent fixation for those around her. An unnerving exploration of feminine ferocity punctuated with pitch- black humor, The Neon Demon is a glittery and gruesome thriller in the vein of Paul Verhoeven’s tragically misunderstood Showgirls. Or, in some cases, sequels to remakes of superheroes. These are the films that define the modern summer movie season, and they can get pretty tedious when they’re piled up one on top of another. That’s one big reason I treasured Shane Black’s The Nice Guys. It won’t spawn any sequels. It’s based on nothing. It’s just Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as two morally dubious guys who stumble into a mystery in 1. Los Angeles. Black’s hilarious whodunit harkened back to the less than glorious days of L. A sleaze, and also to Black’s own past, when he was writing movies like Lethal Weapon and The Long Kiss Goodnight, and big Hollywood originals weren’t the exception to the rule. If any dated Disney movie needed a revamping, it was the 1. David Lowery brings to a sense of majestic wonder to his remake, a movie that’s visually spectacular from the first scene to the last. Pete’s Dragon is also overflowing with heart; it’s a story about family, imagination, and friendship, topics that can get easily lost amidst forced mawkishness. But Lowery brings an emotional maturity to this film, something we often don’t see in movies about childhood. Pete’s Dragon reminds you how magical and moving cinema can be for audiences of any age. Time will tell if the Lonely Island’s mock- doc has the cult staying power of Will Forte’s (and Popstar co- director Jorma Taccone’s) Mac. Gyver spoof, but Popstar is definitely as hilarious as its unfortunately overlooked predecessor. With a delightfully irreverent soundtrack and a stellar cast of co- stars and cameos, Taccone, Andy Samberg, and Akiva Schaffer delivered one of the goofiest and most entertaining comedies in a long time. Where else will you find something as amazing as a rap verse that name- drops Martha Plimpton and O. J. Simpson in the same breath? I like movies, I like sharks, and I like movies about sharks trying to eat Blake Lively. Coincidentally, I really enjoyed The Shallows, the latest bonkers genre film from Jaume Collet- Serra (Orphan, Non- Stop). Stripping Jaws’ premise down to the bare minimum (to say nothing of Ms. Lively’s wardrobe), Collet- Serra found new twists on an old B- movie formula. Dismiss The Shallows at your own peril; few summer movies were as confident or as self- aware, and few would have dared to give its heroine an arch seagull sidekick named Steven Seagull. Surrounded by 2. 01. Star Trek celebrated its first half- century with a clever and exhilarating referendum on its place in modern pop culture. As Star Trek Beyond begins, Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk wonders aloud whether he and the Federation (and therefore Star Trek) still serve a purpose after all these years. The rest of the movie provides a resounding yes. Director Justin Lin and writers Simon Pegg found they key to Trek’s future in its past, ditching the last film’s darker vibe and returning to the series’ core values of exploration, optimism, and barely disguised political allegory. Even as Beyond addressed contemporary issues, it found plenty of room for excitement, with several action scenes, including the frenetic destruction of the Enterprise, that ranked among the summer’s very best.
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