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 Wall

When you bring home a war movie that stars a professional wrestler, you’re prepared to watch a meathead special. Not so with “The Wall” (2017). About two minutes in, I got the sense this was going to be some kind of throwback drama, like a teleplay from 50 years ago or a short story from even longer ago. (The fact the wrestler doesn’t have a lot of dialogue helps.) An Army Ranger and an Iraqi jihadist square off physically, technologically and psychologically, but the story could have just as easily been set in World War II or the Civil War.