Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics (A Fantastic Woman)
OUT managing editor and film critic R. Kurt Osenlund on his top films of the year.
December 18 2017 6:55 PM EST
March 07 2019 5:35 AM EST
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OUT managing editor and film critic R. Kurt Osenlund on his top films of the year.
Recently, a friend told me he felt that 2017 was a bad year for movies. I see a fraction of the films I used to see as a full-time critic, but even within that fraction, this year, I'd have to disagree. Whether emboldened by an oppressive political climate, Moonlight's path to Oscar glory, a fatigue of intolerance, or any of the above, the movies I saw in the past 12 months showed me a growing wealth of diversity being poured out into our culture.
From the surprise of female-led box-office hits like Wonder Woman and Girls Trip to the satisfaction of queer critical smashes like Call Me by Your Name, I saw hope for what Hollywood (and cinema at large) might just be: A medium and a machine that actually has the guts to make risky art that can change minds--and even change the future. Maybe that's not just a film projector behind you; maybe it's a light shining toward the end of a tunnel.
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Videography and Editing by Saskia de Borchgrave
Assistant: Tove Byrne
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