Much has already been said about the sensory wonders of Luca Guadagnino's wellspring of a movie but nothing in 2017 bore such splendor and such genuine wisdom as "Call Me By Your Name".
Most of all, "Call Me By Your Name" is an exquisitely alive movie, calling you to lean into life.
"The Florida Project": Speaking of vibrant movies. Sean Baker's latest and best is somehow both an affecting, thoughtful social drama and the most spirited movie of the year.
More than most, Baker's films are fully engaged with the real world.
Bill Morrison's documentary recounts the unbelievable story of how several hundred reels of silent film were discovered in the foundation of an old athletic club in the far-north Canadian town of Dawson City, once the capital of the Yukon gold rush.
It's unquestionably a landmark movie in representing an African-American perspective in a way that has seldom, if ever, been seen before.
"Phantom Thread": For such a finely attired film, Paul Thomas Anderson's latest is funny.
This is a very down-to-earth movie about finding your own idiosyncratic love, and getting outside your own head enough to appreciate it.
Steven Soderbergh's heist movie "Logan Lucky" delights in both dignifying and laughing at its slow-witted, folksy characters, but, man, is it fun.
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