November 15th, 2017 | Updated on April 2nd, 2024
After all, there are most popular movie lists. Lots and lots of others. So many lists, you couldn’t list them all. This list is from IMDB, these are the films we still argue over, quote endlessly and return to again and again.
Whether you agree with their choices or not, there’s lots to enjoy on these pages.
1. Blade Runner 2049
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Watch Here…
Review: Vulture
Maybe it’s that his icy demeanor is undercut whenever he speaks, sounding like he studied Marlon Brando a bit too much and for all the wrong reasons. Perhaps it’s because his body bristles with anxiety and discomfort, as if he isn’t convinced of his own brooding. Read Full Review…
2. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The film picks up immediately after Episode VII: The Force Awakens, after Force-sensitive scavenger Rey (Daisy Ridley) finally tracks down powerful Jedi Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) to train and help the Resistance defeat the First Order. Although most of the plot details are being kept very secret to avoid spoilers, many of the heroes and villains return, including escaped Stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), dark warrior Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), Resistance pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), and Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa. If The Last Jedi is anything like The Force Awakens or Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, you can expect a lot of violence that may be too intense for younger kids, but also great role models and an action-packed adventure that tweens and teens will love. Visit Here…
Review: Chicagoreader
In 1997, when I was eight years old, my father took me and my sisters to see the first three Star Wars movies, which were being rolled out in U.S. theaters in January, February, and March of that year to mark the franchise’s 20th anniversary. After each viewing, he would take us out for milk shakes and question us about the film’s themes. “What does the Force mean to you?” he’d ask. “What is the difference between the dark side and the light?” Read Full Review…
3. Blade Runner
Blade Runner 2049 Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. Watch Here…
Review: The Washington Post
The pictorially stunning new science-fiction detective thriller “Blade Runner,” opening today at area theaters, certainly reflects the description forecast by director Ridley Scott: “A film set 40 years hence, made in the style of 40 years ago.” Read Full Review…
4. It
It (2017) In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one, leaving behind bloody remains. In a place known as ‘The Barrens’, a group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It. Watch Online…
Review: The Muse
What do scary clowns and nostalgia have in common? They are equally obvious and effective devices. Also, they are the air in the balloon of Andy Muschietti’s new version of It. I don’t want to begrudge the pragmatist filmmaker for taking the direct route and giving the people what they want, especially because this is a reasonable strategy in such a visceral genre as horror, but asserting that clowns are scary or that nostalgia is pleasurable. Read Full Review…
5. Justice League
Justice League Dark (2017) Justice League Dark is what it sounds like. It’s the dark side of justice. A group of supernatural heroes who band together loosely to take on occult threats, supernatural threats – threats that the real Justice League may be powerless against. Available here…
Review: San Diego Reader
Did you like Joss Whedon’s The Avengers? Then you’ll love, or at least maybe be able to mostly tolerate, Justice League, and not just because Whedon helped out with the script and direction. (Don’t worry, though: Zack Snyder still leaves his gritty, operatic fingerprints on the project, especially early on.) You’ve got your super-powerful magic geegaw – Motherboxes instead of the Tesseract. Read Full Review…
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6. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy. Click Here…
Review: The Atlantic
When Kingsman: The Secret Service landed in theaters two years ago, it was a surprising, if modestly guilty, pleasure. For more than 30 years—going back at least as far as Never Say Never Again—James Bond had been derided within his own franchise as a “dinosaur,” for his tailored suits, sexist attitudes, and proclivity for violence. Read Full Review…
7. Professor Marston And The Wonder Women
This man single-handedly created Wonder Woman, the fearless, righteous and gorgeous comic-book character that the entire world came to love and respect. Back when he released it, the book generated a lot of controversies. Apart from coming up with one of the finest heroines in history, the man was also one of the key inventors of the so-called lie detector test. He was in a polyamorous relationship with his wife and a student. Both ladies were big-time feminists, and, after Marston passed away in ’47, they stayed with each other. Yes, the professor had an eventful life, and this movie did a wonderful job depicting every important step he took. Click Here…
Review: The Atlantic
The life stories being told in Professor Marston and the Wonder Women are truly radical. William Marston (Luke Evans) was a psychologist and university professor who helped invent the lie detector in the 1920s and created the character of Wonder Woman for DC Comics in 1941. Read Full Review…
8. The Dark Tower
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.Watch Now…
Review: The Village Voice
Yes, you’ve heard it’s bad. It is. But there are some things to like in The Dark Tower, directed by Nikolaj Arcel, the new adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel series. Just as in the books, an evil sorcerer named The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) orders around his henchpeople — actually rat people — who must don human skin suits to travel around Keystone Earth undetected. Read Full Review…
9. Thor: Ragnarok
Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must fight for survival and race against time to prevent the all-powerful Hela from destroying his home and the Asgardian civilization. Get One…
Review: Salon
I didn’t need to look at the early box office projections to know that “Thor: Ragnarok” was going to be a hit. As soon as I saw the giant lines curled up for yards outside my movie theater, I deduced that Marvel was looking at yet another of its runaway successes. Hell, even a quick glance at the positive reception to the “Thor: Ragnarok” trailers was a fair indication of positive audience response. Read Full Review…
10. The Snowman
Harry, the famed and respected detective of a top-notch crime unit is investigating the abduction of an innocent civilian on the 1st snow of winter. As he digs deeper into this case, the detective starts to suspect that a notorious serial killer is back to murdering people. It’s obvious that even the great Harry Hole won’t be able to stop this psycho. So, he teams up with a young yet incredibly smart recruit for a chance to put an end to these horrifying killings. The only way to figure the criminal out is to find the connection between the old cases and the new crimes. The clock is ticking, and time is working against the cops. Will the dynamic duo find a way to bring the maniac to justice? Watch Here…
Review: BuzzFeedNews
The Snowman is made up of all the right parts. The cast, which includes Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and J.K. Simmons, is first-rate. The source material is an acclaimed best-selling Norwegian mystery novel. The story is the kind of brainy serial killer tale that’s oh so hot right now. Read Full Review…
11. Baby Driver
The movie tells the story of talented getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort). After being coerced into working for a robbery syndicate managed by Doc (Kevin Spacey), Baby finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.Visit Here…
Review: ChicagoReader
Writer-director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) has been mashing up genres since he was an amateur filmmaker in his teens; here he tweaks the caper film by replacing the familiar figure of the aging protagonist who’s in for one last score with a fresh-faced kid (Ansel Elgort) who’s in debt to a criminal mastermind (Kevin Spacey). Read Full Review…
12. Gerald’s Game
While trying to spice up her marriage in a remote lake house, a woman must suddenly fight to survive when she is left handcuffed to a bed.
Review: The Hollywood Reporter
Making your horror movie stand out from its peers isn’t easy. You’re competing in a genre with a low buy-in that begets high ubiquity; literally anybody with access to cameras and corn syrup, plus a troupe of actors game enough to play dead onscreen, can knock out a quickie horror project without breaking either a sweat or the bank. That’s the genre’s floor. The ceiling is considerably higher, decorated with a mural of horror’s recent classic elects, a la The Babadook, The Witch, The Neon Demon, It Comes at Night, The Conjuring, It Follows, Prevenge, Get Out, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, You’re Next, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Honeymoon, V/H/S 2 and Jennifer’s Body
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13. War For The Planet Of The Apes
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. Click Here For Movie…
Review: Star-Telegram
Who would have thought that a bunch of chattering apes would have so much to say?
But “War for the Planet of the Apes,” the finale in the “Planet of the Apes” reboot trilogy that began with the surprisingly satisfying “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” in 2011 and continued with the darkly impressive “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” in 2014, is smart, funny and moving.
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14. Happy Death Day
A teenage girl, trying to enjoy her birthday, soon realizes that this is her final one. That is, if she can figure out who her killer is. She must relive that day, over and over again, dying in a different way each time. Can she solve her own murder? Visit Here…
Review: TimeOut
What would you do if you found yourself repeatedly re-experiencing your own murder? It’s a scary and compelling premise, but in answering that question, Happy Death Day aims less at horror devotees and more at teenagers, taking a breezy, CW-esque approach to questions of fate. As a result, the movie offers sufficient surface pleasures, while a deeper, darker satisfaction remains elusive. Read Full Review…
15. The New Mutants
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
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16. The Foreigner – 2017
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers’ identities. Get One…
Review: Reel Film Reviews
It was inevitable, but it appears as though Steven Seagal has finally gone the Van Damme route. Instead of praying for sidekick roles in lame theatrical action flicks (Half Past Dead, anyone?), Seagal’s begun appearing in leading roles in straight-to-video productions – beginning with The Foreigner. Read Full Review…
17. Wonder Woman
Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. Watch Now…
Review: 7M Pictures
Continuing the string of PG-13 adventures with the DC Comics superheroes, “Wonder Woman” is a one-shot film telling the origin of the legendary Amazon warrior. The Amazons have lived without men for centuries, but when Ares, the God of War, escapes, they must try to capture him. The Amazon Princess Diana wins a competition to be the one to go after Ares and, with the aid of a fighter pilot who crashes on the Amazons’ invisible island, she tracks Ares to the world of men in an effort to return him to the underworld. Read Full Review…
18. Pacific Rim Uprising
The globe-spanning conflict between otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and the human-piloted super-machines built to vanquish them was only a prelude to the all-out assault on humanity in Pacific Rim Uprising.
Review: The Detroit News
“Pacific Rim Uprising” returns to the world of giant fightin’ robots that was introduced in 2013’s “Pacific Rim.” That earlier film was director Guillermo del Toro’s mash-up of “Top Gun” and “Godzilla,” a spirited celebration of monster and military movie clichés. This sequel continues inside the same basic framework, with less inventive moxie and a more workmanlike attitude. Read Full Review…
19. Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark, Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine – distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man – but when the Vulture emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened. Movie Is Available Here…
Review: Salon
Inside the theater, the audience seemed to be having a fantastic time. Men and women of all races, skewing young, laughing at the right cues, gasping at the appropriate plot twists and cheering when the credits began to roll. Read Full Review…
20. The Mountain Between Us
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and discovering strength they never knew possible.Watch Online Here…
Review: The New Republic
The best moment in the new survival drama The Mountain Between Us is when a cellphone rings. Ben (Idris Elba) and Alex (Kate Winslet) are stranded up a mountain after a plane crash, her phone smashed and his without signal. As the signature iPhone ringtone warbled around the movie theater, the audience drew in their breath: They’re saved! But no. It was just an elderly attendee who picked up his phone to stage-whisper, “I’m in a movie.” Read Full Review…
21. American Made – 2017
Brad is a modern-day American man trying to provide for his family and make a living. He’s not the happiest fella out there but is confident that he’s doing the right thing and is proud of that fact. When his son becomes old enough, the two of them embark on a thrilling journey to check out the colleges on the entire East Coast. Everything goes great until Brad comes across one of his old buddies. Instead of cheering him up, the “friend” makes the father doubt every single choice he made for the last couple of decades. Pretty much all of his friends achieved great things with their lives, while he’s just another routine dude. Watch Online…
22. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Jack is back, and this time around, he’s after an artifact that is believed to be incredibly powerful. It’s the Trident of Poseidon, and it can control the oceans. Obviously, the agile captain is not the only one hunting for this weapon – he’s got Salazar and a bunch of brutal ghost pirates rushing towards the Trident, and if Sparrow fails, the world will turn into a war zone. The clock is ticking; there’s no room for error; Jack can’t trust anyone. Will he still be able to outrun and outsmart all his enemies and, once again, save the world? The fans of the “Pirates” saga will, without a doubt, appreciated the latest addition to the franchise. It’s fun, engaging, comes with great CGI effects and a gripping plot. Watch Online…
Review: New Year Post
Welcome to the fifth — and, Davy Jones willing, the last — installment of this franchise: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Johnny Depp Is Bad With Money.”
It’s a little less cute these days to watch his Jack Sparrow swish about drunkenly, knowing the actor’s been accused of being an abusive lush. Equally wearisome is the spectacle of a once-entertaining franchise staggering around, devoid of purpose. Read Full Review…
23. Wind River – 2017
There’s been a murder on one of the Native-American reservations, and it’s up to a decorated agent with the Bureau to investigate the case and find the ones responsible. She’s aided by the townlet’s hard-boiled game tracker, and together they’ll have to get to the bottom of it. The people at the reservation were forced to live there – for centuries now. They like to keep to themselves and aren’t particularly nice to strangers. Wyoming’s climate is harsh and unforgiving, which means it’s going to be twice as hard for the FBI agents to solve this mysterious case and go back home, where she belongs. The hunter is the only man she can trust, and the clock is ticking. Watch Now…
Review: The Detroit News
“Wind River” opens with the stark image of a woman running barefoot across the frozen emptiness in wide-open Wyoming. The particulars of who she is, where she is and why she’s running are the subject of this gritty, dense, superbly realized crime procedural that ranks among the year’s best films.
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24. Mother!
He and She are in love and thankful for every single day they get to spend with each other. A married couple with no ups and downs, they’re about to go through the ultimate test when a bunch of unwanted guests enters their calm, peaceful and uneventful lives. The man and the wife spent a lot of time, money and energy on turning their house into a perfect home, and now these strangers are turning it into a disaster. Pretty soon, hundreds of people surrender the couple. Could it be that her husband has been lying to her this entire time? Thrilling, suspenseful and full of tension, Mother! is one hell of a nail-biter. Available Here…
25. The Babysitter
The events of one evening take an unexpected turn for the worst for a young boy trying to spy on his babysitter. A teenage babysitter is the focus of two boys and a man’s separate obsessions. Watch Online….
Review: The Star
The script has a stale air, like something that was doing the rounds for a long time before David Ross found backers to make a film out of it. In the end, it was produced by the same company that brought us a clever urban romance, Raising Victor Vargas (2002). Read Full Review…
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26. Jigsaw
We’ve been waiting for the 8th chapter for quite a long time, and now it’s finally here! The cops are finding more and more dead people all over the city. It’s not the work of a serial killer because every single murder is unique and unimaginably brutal. The citizens are starting to panic, and, in order to stop the chaos from spreading, the local authorities will have to get to the bottom of this. The investigation comes to one single conclusion: Mr. Kramer, who goes by the name of “Jigsaw”, is the only one who could do something like this. But the man was killed a decade ago, and nobody has seen or heard of him ever since. Could it be that the monster is still alive? Purchase Here…
Review: AV Club
Say this for the Saw series of self-mutilating slasher pictures: They get right to it. Most of them open with a victim or victims waking up in a signature horrifically violent trap—no stalking or backstory until later, if at all—and proceed straight into parallel narratives involving a gauntlet of survival traps set for those victims and the hard-bitten cops trying to pause the carnage.
27. Geostorm
When climate change led the world to the brink of destruction, the greatest nations of the world joined forces in creating an artificial intelligence armed with the most advanced satellites out there. They were designed to prevent further disasters from putting the population of planet Earth in danger. The system has been protecting the humans for two whole years, but it’s obvious that something’s not right with the program. That’s when they bring in two bruvs who haven’t spoken to each other for ages to get to the bottom of this. A gigantic Geostorm is coming, and if they fail at fixing the system, the world will turn into a graveyard in a matter of days. Click Here…
Review: The Hollywood Reporter
The planetary disaster film equivalent of a two-hour call to tech support, Dean Devlin’s Geostorm boils down to that classically annoying hail-mary bit of advice: Have you tried shutting it down and rebooting? Big, dumb and boring, it finds the co-writer of Independence Day hoping to start a directing career with the same playbook — but forgetting several rules of the game. The result isn’t the end of the world, but it’s certainly no Armageddon either.
28. Cult of Chucky
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane, Nica Pierce is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family in this Unrated version of Cult of Chucky. Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife. Visit Here….
29. American Assassin
Mitch, a 23-year-old man, was just a 14-year-old boy when his mom and dad died in a horrifying car accident. He also lost the love of his life, the girl he was about to marry, to a vicious terrorist attack. Devastated by his loss, Mitch decided to join the CIA and fight injustice every way he could. They assigned Hurley, a veteran from the Cold War era, to work with him. After years of training, the recruit becomes a black ops agent. Together, the master and the apprentice investigate a series of random attacks on innocent civilians and military bases. When Mitch figures out the pattern of these violent acts, it becomes clear that someone wants to start WW3 in the Middle East. Get One Here….
Review: Chicago.SunTimes
Michael Keaton as a battle-scarred, Cold War Secret Ops legend now living far off the grid in the obligatory remote cabin, where he trains a small band of elite young warriors for ultra-dangerous, top-secret overseas missions the USA will never even acknowledge? Sure. I’m not sure who goes out and gets the groceries during the whole training period, but all right.
