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.

Continue reading The Worst Films Of 2017 at The Playlist.

If you live in Los Angeles and haven’t caught up with most of this year’s awards season titles you can breathe easy.  No, screeners aren’t arriving early, but AFI Fest has added some unexpected starpower and prestige to its 2017 slate.

Joining previously announced galas “Mudbound” (opening night), “All The Money In The World” (closing night), “Call Me By Your Name,” “The Disaster Artist” and “Hostiles” are seven films that hope to make a dent in the Oscars race in various categories.

Continue reading ‘I, Tonya,’ ‘Shape of Water’ And ‘Molly’s Game’ Added To 2017 AFI Fest Slate at The Playlist.

It’s an iron-clad, scientifically proven and peer-reviewed fact that the three most irritating devices to plague the movie portrayal of senior citizens are: old lady rapping, old lady cussing and old-lady-on-a-motorbike. According to this matrix, Italian director Paolo Virzi‘s English-language debut that played, amazingly enough, In Competition in Venice and now trundles into San Sebastian belching diesel fumes and mawkishness, challenges Meat Loaf‘s dictum that two out of three ain’t bad: While we can be thankful for the small mercy that nobody actually raps, the other two motifs do occur and it’s quite bad indeed.

Continue reading Weak-Sauce Wallow ‘The Leisure Seeker’ With Donald Sutherland And Helen Mirren [San Sebastian Review] at The Playlist.