The 43-year-old U.K.-born Edgar Wright is just about the perfect 21st-century genre director. It’s so offhand and so comprehensive.Īnsel Elgort is the beautifully stringy, poker-faced youth who wears earbuds and drives the getaway car for an increasingly psychotic gang of bank robbers (among them Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm) at the behest of the icy “Doc” (Kevin Spacey). The title itself is one of those accidents that come from casual conversation - how a girl named Delia describes the start of a new school year. That sounds a little broad, especially for a movie that runs a scant 79 minutes, but the filmmakers obviously shot a ton of footage, and what they chose has a fullness that can be loosely called Chekhovian.
What she sees (literally) fundamentally changes her marriage, but Forster isn’t content to let his film look like a standard domestic drama, and he and cinematographer Matthias Koenigswieser make All I See is You one of the loopiest and expressive exercises at the movies this year, a meditation on sight itself that’s ultimately in service of a not-half-bad potboiler.Īn unusually rich and suggestive documentary directed by Jenny Gage and centering on a group of teenage Brooklyn girls who confront (writhe about, squirm over, wrestle with) matters of identity, family, love, and their place in the world. She stars as Gina, a blind woman living with her husband (Jason Clarke) in Bangkok, who undergoes experimental surgery to partially restore her vision.
(A quick note about our methodology: We’ve restricted this list only to films that have had an official release in the first seven months of 2017, though we will continue to update it throughout the year.)īlake Lively gives her best film performance to date in Marc Forster’s strange and ultimately gripping psychological drama. Here are the best movies Vulture has reviewed, according to our movie critics David Edelstein and Emily Yoshida. This year has already seen one attempt at crowning a best film go awry, but we won’t be deterred: With 2017 more than halfway over, it’s time for us to take stock. This list has been updated to include October releases.
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