My final post on the best films of 2017 will focus on the comedies. It was a strong year for funny movies, including some I’ve already written about earlier this week (Lady Bird, Thor: Ragnarok, Get Out and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, to name a few).
The unlikeliest great movie of the year was The Disaster Artist (#5 on my top 20), James Franco’s dramatization of the making of “the Citizen Kane of bad films,” 2003’s The Room. I caught up with that bizarre film as homework for this one, and it is certainly worthy of the cult following it has amassed. Writer/director/star Tommy Wiseau is a uniquely fascinating character, and Franco captures him in one of the year’s best performances, nailing not just Wiseau’s otherworldly accent but his focused spaciness and hostile earnestness.
Meet Me In Montauk 