Yeah, I’m going to veto having “a” favorite, because even in a year with a lot of disappointing flops which I managed to avoid, there were tons of films I will not be picking favorites for, because that’s bad parenting….
This year, I loved: Captain:America Civil War, Rogue One, Zootopia, Deadpool, the Witch, Hail Caesar!, Midnight Special, Green Room, the Nice Guys, Ghostbusters (2016), Star Trek Beyond, Hell or High Water, Kubo and the Two Strings, Doctor Strange, Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Jackie, La La Land, Fences, and 20th Century Women.
Everything on this list makes sense but Hail Caesar, which as near as I can tell after multiple viewings was a story about how a brutal, anti-labor, morally compromised, misogynist asshole should keep doing his soul-destroying work because movies are just so gosh darn important that the mere fact that he makes them washes his sins away, and anyway his other option is even more evil.
Also communists are dumb idiots.
I hated it and don’t get why so many people loved it.
Because A. it was funny, and B. given their previous work (most notably Barton Fink), I think you’re supposed to take the whole thing as not to be taken seriously.
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