Times that are spirit-crushingly awful desperately need great films. And 2016, for all its daggers, at least delivered some of the in recent memory. After a weak year (2015), the medium came roaring back in 2016. Especially encouraging was the diversity to be found in the best movies of 2016—three of our top six films feature African-American or mixed-race leads, and four of our top nine starred a female lead. Overall, there were an impressive number of truly transcendent films to find U.S. 3D movies in 2017 are going to be all about the blockbusters; here's what's coming this year. The fifth in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, you can be sure this latest outing will be big on over-the-top swashbuckling, giving Johnny Depp the perfect opportunity to show off for a couple of hours as Captain. May 26, 2017. If the first half of 2017 has offered more than a few reasons to run screaming from the news and sit in a darkened room away from it all, at least it's also offered plenty of great movies to watch in that darkened room. Those seeking total relief from reality could find it in Beauty and the Beast's floral fantasies. Top-Grossing Movies of 2016. Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2016. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money. Feb 25, 2017. According to critics, the 2017 Academy Award best picture nominees Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, and La La Land are historically great movies. In fact, these three films were so well received, they might be the best crop of films to have graced the Academy Awards' Best Picture category in decades. Release this year, and many more that were fascinating and thrilling in their own ways. So much so that narrowing the list down to 50 was extremely difficult, and we suspect (and hope) that many of you will tell us about favorites of yours that missed the cut. Here are the 50 best movies of 2016. Miles Ahead Director: Director/actor dismissed a pitch for a conventional biopic structure and instead suggested making a film that captures the essence of Miles Davis’s spirit by bucking the biopic form—a film in which, as Cheadle tells it, Davis himself would want to star. Everyone got on board, so Cheadle proceeded to co-write, direct and star in what now amounts to a piece of Miles Davis fan fiction: Miles Ahead is a caper film with a refreshing sense of creative authority, chutzpah and goodwill. A musician in his past life, Cheadle makes a striking transformation in his role, parading a crown of Jheri curls and straining and rasping his voice to the point that he and Davis are indistinguishable. In that spirit, Miles Ahead is massively entertaining but guided with a shaky hand, at times overly stylized and others stiflingly formulaic, a film whose quest for innovation within its genre may have outpaced its ability to deliver. During a rehearsal scene, Davis implores his band to “be wrong strong,” one of the many callbacks to Davis’s passion for improvisation. If Cheadle meant to communicate the messy rebelliousness of jazz music, then he succeeded through a messy rebellion of cinema. —Melissa Weller 49. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Director: Brett Story Empathy is at the forefront in The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, director Brett Story’s masterful collection of vignettes. There’s no central figure, Story instead using her snapshots of different individuals to suggest something grander—namely, Americans’ inescapable entanglement with their country’s prison system. There’s a cumulative power, a headlong rush, in watching one vignette segue into another, the viewer trying to make connections between seemingly dissimilar American portraits. Other filmmakers would mount a frontal assault on the classism and racism rampant in the way we lock up so many people, but Story doesn’t want us to watch the usual images and absorb the normal statistics. She’s asking us to see the dilemma in a new light, and her powerful essay film never stops making us queasy—or, at the same time, alive with anger and sorrow that the dilemma is being communicated so forcefully. —Tim Grierson 48. Men & Chicken Director: Anders Thomas We live in a wondrous world where a film which breaks box office records in Denmark prominently features a chronic masturbator (the inimitable in his least embraced role in a year in which he’s been part of every worthwhile blockbuster tentpole) and a reasonable-sounding description of the logic behind certain forms of bestiality. In Men & Chicken, Elias (Mikkelsen, mustachioed repugnantly) and his pecky milquetoast of a brother Gabriel (David Dencik) share both a harelip and, upon trekking to a remote island estate where they meet their estranged brood, the discovery that the foundations of their existences hinge on a sort of nightmarish debauching of the basest tenets of life and love.
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In 2017 we experienced both incredible highs and incredible lows. We saw longtime bachelor Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, we watched dueling political factions rally to support their causes, and we lost stars like Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington and classic rocker Tom Petty. While our spirits rose and our hearts were broken in equal measure, these 20 viral stories caught our attention this year, and were well worth sharing. Fortunately, even if 2017 has left you feeling down, these might still brighten your day. Harvey Weinstein’s Hollywood Ousting The rumors of Harvey Weinstein’s sexually inappropriate behavior came to a head in 2017, when numerous women, including a number of Weinstein’s former employees and a handful of famous actresses, including Angelina Jolie, Ashley Judd, and Asia Argento, claimed he pressured, coerced, or raped them. Weinstein was subsequently fired from The Weinstein Company, which he’d co-founded with his brother Bob, and was kicked out of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His wife, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman, left him, too. If there’s yet another upside to the Weinstein scandal and fallout, it’s that we learned there are some. Prince Harry’s Proposal In one of the year’s most heartwarming stories, royal bachelor Prince Harry popped the question to his girlfriend, Suits star, in November 2017. The couple gave an adorable interview to following the announcement of their engagement, and fans of the pair were excited to see the royals welcome not only an American, but one of the first mixed-race British royals in centuries, to the family. May 22, 2017 9 BEST Moments From The 2017 Billboard Music Awards. Of all the unforgettable moments that happened at the 2017 BBMAs. When we polled Paste editors, staff writers, and contributors on the best TV shows of 2017, more than 60 series received at least one vote—already a slim 15% or so of the total number of original scripted series to air this year. To narrow that “shortlist” to 25 titles was an almost impossible, often thankless. It's difficult to pick our favorite fashion moment from 2017 — there were just too many. From Kaia Gerber's runway debut and Selena Gomez's Coach. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle aren’t the only royal couple with intense weddings; these might just shock you. For more advice on living your best life, now! America's love affair with Cardi B began with a hilarious Instagram full of catch phrases ('wash poppin?!' ) and two seasons of Love And Hip Hop New York, where viewers embraced her larger-than-life personality. (It's been hard for me to ever say the word 'foreva' the same again after.) 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Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have picked up the North American rights to faith-based feature I Can Only Imagine. Dennis Quaid and Cloris Leachman star in the Jon and Andrew Erwin-directed drama, along with Priscilla Shirer, Madeline Carroll and J. Michael Finley. I Can Only Imagine follows the true story of Bart Millard, lead singer of the Christian band MercyMe, and how he wrote what is now the most-played radio single in Christian music history. May 15, 2017 - 3 secWatch The Voice highlight 'Aliyah Moulden: 'I Can Only Imagine' on NBC.com. 11:00 AM PDT 8/14/2017 by Mia Galuppo. Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions have picked up the North American rights to faith-based feature I Can Only Imagine. Dennis Quaid and Cloris Leachman. “Coming on the heels of our faith-based box-office hit The Shack, I Can Only Imagine will touch audiences everywhere. Kevin Downes, Cindy Bond and Daryl Lefever are producing. 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