Jordan Vogt-Roberts made a monster movie and a Vietnam film fight each other and the result is this action-packed monster mash. We’re never forgetting the way he eats spaghetti (the rest of the film is brilliant too).
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman are excellent as the husband and wife who find themselves at the mercy of a determined young man from his past, but it’s Barry Keoghan’s performance as the devious yet deadpan Martin that will stay with you. Look past the miscasting of Dane DeHaan and embrace the sheer joy of Valerian.įrom “sheer joy” to the darkest dark comedy of the year, as The Lobsterand Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returned with this compelling, odd and pitch-black horror. It’s also packed with brilliant aliens, mad tech and Ethan Hawke and Rihanna as a space pimp and a kindly shape-shifter respectively. It’s visually stunning, it’s incredibly inventive and the prologue alone, one of the most striking in recent memory, would earn it a place on this list. Luc Besson’s mega-budget space opera may have disappointed at the box-office, but the fact that the film’s financial issues were being so widely reported meant that a very important fact was being overlooked: it’s a really fun film. VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
But what’s made our list of the very best? To get these results we polled our contributors for their top 10s and crunched the numbers, and the amazing range of movies here shows just how good a year it’s been.Ģ2. It’s been an exceptional year for the genre, as Wonder Woman stormed the box-office, Logan made us cry, Caesar hunted for vengeance and studios realised that audiences love horror films. The end of the year, specifically, when we make lists, and here are the sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies that had us talking in 2017.
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