My 2017 top 10

Here is a ranking of all the films released in the U.S. in 2017 that I’ve seen, with links to my reviews where applicable:

1. Get Out

2. The Hero

3. The Founder

4. Once Upon a Time in Venice

5. Table 19

6. The Wall

7. Going in Style

8. Logan Lucky

9. War on Everyone

10. I Do… Until I Don’t

11. Wilson

12. My Cousin Rachel

13. Atomic Blonde

14. A United Kingdom

15. Chips

16. Paris Can Wait

17. All Nighter

18. Sleepless

19. The Lego Batman Movie

20. A Woman, a Part

21. Kidnap

22. Snatched

23. Rough Night

24. The House

25. Youth in Oregon

26. The Lovers

27. Arsenal

The Founder

I watched “The Founder” (2017) during the week that Tropical Storm Harvey devastated Houston and for some reason, I connected the two. From a distance, way up high, hurricanes are truly a thing of beauty to behold, both in design and power. Down at the surface, however, things can get ugly and downright inhumane. My understanding of the McDonald’s restaurant story has mostly been lofty – a quintessential American success (with vague undercurrents of controversy). This beautifully filmed, superbly acted adaptation provides a street-level (gutter-level?) version, a rat-eat-rat, greed-is-good, coffee-is-for-closers version that only a Lomanesque salesman like Ray Kroc could love.