Best of this; top 20 that; breakthrough the other. At some point in our ever-comprehensive year-end coverage, especially after a pretty great movie year like this one, we simply get sick and tired of scanning our thesauruses for synonyms for “awesome.” And when that happens, we like to aggregate a list of splat-rated films, bloated follies and our own personal loathe objects, and hate-watch the shit out of them in preparation for this feature, which serves as the Kylo Ren to our Best of 2017’s Jyn Erso, or maybe the poop emoji to the rest of our coverage’s thumbs-up smiley face.

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Don’t you just haaaate good movies (like the ones we counted down last week in our 25 Best Films of 2017 So Far)? Aren’t you just sick and bloody tired of walking out of a theater feeling entertained, refreshed and intellectually challenged, or switching off your TV at night having been caught up in a beautifully imagined world that seemed to spring fully formed from the mind of an inventive and uncompromising filmmaker? I know we are!

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If there is one lesson to be learned from the box office this week, it’s that the pull of nostalgia can be quite lucrative…unless it’s “CHIPS.”

Disney‘s “Beauty And The Beast” continued its commanding hold at the multiplex, spending the second straight week on top of the box office with $88 million domestic, and added another $119 million overseas. This brings the global total after two weeks to $690 million, and it looks like $1 billion worldwide is simply an inevitability at this point.

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Somewhere along the way, Warner Bros. believed that Dax Shepard had the vision to write, direct and star in your Dad’s favorite cop show, “CHIPS.” And his approach seems to be embracing an R-rating and seeing how far it can go while taking Michael Pena along for the ride.

This reboot of the ’70s series frames the comedy around a pretty familiar story, following a cop and federal agent who are paired up to find corruption within their ranks.

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While a movie based on the ’70s drama “CHIPS” seems silly, that was everyone thought about “21 Jump Street” at first, until Phil Lord and Chris Miller showed that it’s possible to really shake the dust off an aging property. And yet, our reservations remain for “CHiPs” mostly because we’re not quite ready to put our faith in Dax Shepard as writer, director and star (but hey, we’d be more than happy to be proven wrong).

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Dax Shepard To Direct & Star In 'CHiPS' Reboot, Michael Pena To Join Him

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