20 Movies For Popcorn

Superheros, spaceships and assassins abound in our annual breakdown of the year's best popcorn movies, from 'Star Wars' to 'Skull Island'.
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As Fernando walks down a busy road in the end of the film, literally transformed into Rodrigues who may also be St. In the best way possible. That fact lends added poignancy to a movie that, in part, is about the fragility of everything: With JR as her co-conspirator, the Varda we see in Faces Places stands as a model for how to carry oneself through the world: Of course, what really made this movie one of the most beautiful and hilarious movies of the year was its cast, featuring performances from an incredible group of women with the kind of chemistry you dream of seeing on screen: Haddish has been rightfully celebrated as the breakout star, but her comedic prowess could have been lost on a lesser script.

Lee, and the result was one of the biggest blasts—among any genre—of the year. Chad Stahelski Perhaps the greatest compliment you can pay to both John Wick movies is via comparison to a contemporary: John Wick films are to guns what The Raid films are to fists. Within their respective spheres of combat, each is on an entirely separate level in terms of presentation.

They want you to stifle a guffaw as John Wick Keanu Reeves pulls off a move that is simultaneously so slickly unrealistic and bone-crunchingly visceral that the cognitive dissonance causes a brief misfire in your synapses. So yes, both cinephiles and action movie buffs will be pleased to know that John Wick: Chapter 2 is a worthy follow-up to the surprising original.

A Dark Song Director: Paced to near perfection, A Dark Song is ostensibly a horror film but operates as a dread-laden procedural, mounting tension while translating the process of bereavement as patient, excruciating manual labor. In the end, something definitely happens, but its implications are so steeped in the blurry lines between Christianity and the occult that I still wonder what kind of alternate realms of existence Gavin is getting at. But A Dark Song thrives in that uncertainty, feeding off of monotony.

Sophia may hear phantasmagorical noise coming from beneath the floorboards, but then substantial spans of time pass without anything else happening, and we begin to question, as she does, whether it was something she did wrong maybe, when tasked with not moving from inside a small chalk circle for days at a time, she screwed up that portion of the ritual by allowing her urine to dribble outside of the boundary or whether her grief has blinded her to an expensive con.

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War for the Planet of the Apes Director: Matt Reeves War for the Planet of the Apes is an absorbing, intelligent finale: When Rise of the Planet of the Apes hit theaters in the late summer of , it suggested a franchise in which humanity—flawed, noble, susceptible to its worst tendencies but trying to live up to its highest ideals—would eventually find itself under attack by an enemy of its own making. The real war is going on within him.

Homecoming is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Impossible because, well, Tony Stark is in this. Quite a bit, actually. Nevertheless, Homecoming manages to pull off the most difficult feat for just about any franchise installment: It justifies its own existence. Much of that praise is owed to Tom Holland, who is playing the first iteration of Peter Parker who, damnit, actually feels like a high school student—more or less. That act, in itself, summarizes the film. Previous Spider-Men would simply have suited up effortlessly and gone out to fight crime.

Other times, the sledgehammer approach has significant benefits. Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev, whose last film was the Oscar-nominated Leviathan , has crafted a slow-burn moral drama that starts off as the portrait of a loveless marriage and the unhappiness it spawns in the form of a distraught year-old child. But as Loveless rolls along, its scope widens, becoming a blistering commentary on the callous society that Zvyagintsev sees around him.

Much in the style of his stripped-down drama Elena, Loveless is all perfectly composed, slightly icy images and tightly drawn characters, the plot only gradually asserting itself. Zhenya Maryana Spivak and Boris Alexey Rozin count down the days until their divorce—barely able to live under the same roof, they both have lovers on the side, and neither seems particularly concerned what will become of their boy Alyosha Matvey Novikov once they separate.

But this time around, he's traded in his pirate clothes and a ship crew for well-tailored suits and a team of eccentrics. But an unexpected heir emerges: Jupiter Jones Kunis , a home caretaker on Earth. Along with the protection of an intergalactic warrior Tatum , she has to fend off headhunters after one of the hopeful heirs, who wants to steal Earth's life force, puts a bounty on her. After being bumped from its original release date in July, it looks like the film is being re-marketed with Jupiter being more kickass than damsel in distress.

The visuals from the trailer are stunning, and the chemistry between Tatum and Kunis looks super convincing. Also, usual good guy Redmayne is playing a sinister villain. Everyone's favorite sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea is popping out of the water and going 3-D with his crew of friends. The Bikini Bottom residents must recover the Krabby Patty secret formula after an evil pirate steals it.

Before you turn away from the porous protagonist, take a look at the trailer.

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And if you're not convinced, it's likely a younger cousin is going to make you take them anyway, because Spongebob is still one of our most recognizable children's cartoons. A young troublemaker Egerton gets a chance at achieving his true potential after being recruited into a super-secret spy organization.

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Just as his training starts, a tech genius' wicked plan puts the world in danger. Also, Adele is supposed to make a cameo, and who doesn't love that sultry songstress? Anastasia Steele Johnson gets to interview the young, attractive and mysterious billionaire Christian Grey Dornan. The two start a heated relationship, and soon Ana finds out the "singular" taste that Mr.

Grey has for BDSM that comes from his need to control everything. Since the announcement that there would be a film adaption of the bestselling book, there has been a ton of buzz surrounding the project. We'll have to wait and see if the movie lives up to the trilogy's erotic reputation. Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, the kind and humble girl with an evil stepmother. Cinderella's fairy godmother decks her out in a princess package, including a ball gown and pumpkin carriage, but Cinderella loses her glass slipper while rushing out of the party.

The prince who has fallen in love with the girl is in search of the lady whose foot fits the slipper. There have been other versions of Cinderella, and all have enchanted audiences. The tale truly is ageless and the updated adaptation, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is sure to impress both longtime lovers of the princess and wide-eyed youngsters. Afraid of getting too close to anyone, she has lived a solitary life. But when she finally falls for a charming philanthropist Huisman , something from her past threatens to reveal her secret.

While it's always uncertain how romances like this may do with the critics, The Age of Adaline is sure to bring in the cash at the box office, especially with big names like Ford and Lively. It'll be exciting to see what layers Adaline's eternal youth brings to the plot.


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