The 2. 1 Best Movies of 2. Movies promise escapist glee. But it’s 2. 01. 6, and politics and entertainment are outright inseparable.

This was the year a damn Ghostbusters reboot sowed hysteria in the “men’s rights” community; it was the year the theater became a site of fierce division when Vice President- elect Mike Pence decided to attend Hamilton. And 2. 01. 6 was the year a reality- TV personality ascended to the presidency and every movie star and his mom was asked to weigh in. So our favorite movies of 2.

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Great cinema can be escapist, but it can also reflect the imperfect world we occupy in slightly more perfect color: the grief (Manchester by the Sea, Jackie), the oppression (Moonlight), the ugly spectacle of politics (Weiner), the collapse and ultimate inadequacy of language (Arrival), the demonic goats and witches (The Witch). Well, no witches yet—that’s in store for 2. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. Here are our very favorite films of the year, ranked in alphabetical order. ALLIEDLet’s be honest: The big question isn’t who dies at the end of Allied (spoiler alert: One of the star- crossed lovers does die) but whether the on- screen chemistry of its stars, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, was really worthy of all those real- life rumors of a scorching affair between the two that ultimately ended Pitt’s marriage. In this case, the answer is no. In fact, for most of the film, Cotillard, who plays a steamily coquettish French Resistance fighter (Marrianne Beaus.

For lovers of the World War II classic Casablanca, get ready for obvious overtones. We watch Max and Marianne fall in love as they assassinate people, escape to London and marry. They soon have a child, but as the war rages on, Max learns to his grave dismay that all may not be as it seems in his otherwise blissful marriage. Thus begins his secretive campaign to find out—before his superiors do—whether he is sleeping with the enemy. Watch As Good As You (2017) Online Free there.

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The moral of this story: When in doubt, talk to your wife. The alternative may be deadly. ARRIVALAliens arrive on earth, but they don’t speak our language. That’s the concept of Arrival. To make a good sci- fi film, you need more than a good idea. Arrival’s concept is its strongest asset by far, but director Denis Villeneuve, who will no doubt become one of the greatest of his generation, has taken a creative nugget and expanded it to create a gripping tale of time, language and love, with an elegant and tangible realism that makes it unique in comparison with its counterparts.

Amy Adams excels in one of her best roles, which is something of an achievement considering how many great parts she has had. Bradford Young’s visuals are sublime, while Oscar winner J. The film has been compared to 2. A Space Odyssey or the more recent Interstellar, and I don’t disagree. Villeneuve, like Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan, understands how to create not just a visually stunning film but an enigmatic tone that envelops you in the world. Some viewers may find Arrival a touch ostentatious, but what good film doesn’t get a bit pretentious sometimes? CAPTAIN FANTASTICThis movie is the story of the evolution of an eccentric American family in the days after their mother dies.

Swedish looker Viggo Mortensen plays Ben, an idealist who has taken his six children to be home- schooled and trained in self- sufficiency off the grid, somewhere in the mountains of Washington state. Unlike most doomsday preppers, he is a secular humanist, and he’s gone off the grid not to await a race war or nuclear Armageddon but to give his kids an anti- materialist, organic lifestyle. When his wife dies, he and the kids are forced out of the woods and back into society. Their clashes with authority, including robbing a grocery store to “Free the Food” in celebration of Noam Chomsky’s birthday, are especially heartwarming acts of rebellion to watch in the Age of Trump. Musical and erudite, they are the radical American version of the Sound of Music’s von Trapp family.

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Writer and director Matt Ross (who also acts in the HBO series Silicon Valley) loosely based the idea on his own childhood experiences living with his mother in various communes in the 1. For Mortensen’s many fans, he also offers a full frontal nudity scene. CHRISTINEIf the film Christine is anything to go by, the journalism industry hasn’t changed much since the 1. Christine Chubbuck, a local television reporter in Sarasota, Florida, is a smart, passionate and wryly funny journalist who clashes with an explosive boss who prods her for juicier stories and reminds her that “if it bleeds it leads.” It’s a mantra she internalized right until the end.

Chubbuck, played by a remarkable Rebecca Hall, also struggled with depression and made history in 1. The film explores Chubbuck’s life leading up to the incident and the inner workings of a small 1. Thankfully, we don’t see the moment of Chubbuck’s death. Her story lodged itself in a macabre corner of American culture and is mistakenly cited as the inspiration for another great film about journalism, Sidney Lumet’s Network. Hopefully equal attention will now be paid to Chubbuck’s life. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEENHigh school sucks. This movie doesn’t.

The Edge of Seventeen is a film about outcasts, by outcasts, for outcasts. Newcomer director Kelly Fremon Craig wrote the sharp script about a brainy, alienated 1. Then she found the best possible actress for the part: Hailee Steinfeld, whose performance pairs self- loathing with tenderness and warmth. Edge of Seventeen crackles with that sense of irredeemable humiliation that’s inherent in the high school experience, and it has a lot to say about the real crisis of teen depression without tiptoeing into mawkishness. Woody Harrelson is excellent as Steinfeld’s ornery teacher.

As the movie’s title suggests, the soundtrack is great too. Oh, and it’s illegal to end a blurb about a great teen movie without mentioning John Hughes, so here: John Hughes John Hughes John Hughes John Hughes. HAIL, CAESAR! The trailers were well tantalizing: A- class actors, stunning visuals and great punch lines. And the Coen brothers’ latest film delivered on that promise with great, skitlike impromptu scenes, like the hilarious “No Dame” song by a tap- dancing Channing Tatum or Tilda Swinton’s dual performance as two reporter twins.

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If you liked No Country for Old Men, don’t miss this one. HELLO, MY NAME IS DORISOld people get crushes too.

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That’s basically the moral of Hello, My Name Is Doris, in which Sally Field plays an eccentric woman named Doris who has a debilitating crush. What’s funny is whom she's crushing on: a much younger and hipper colleague named John (Max Greenfield). And what’s impressive is how Michael Showalter's movie avoids all the obvious directions and cheap laughs this could go for.

Field makes Doris—an utterly ridiculous character, who hoards junk and seeks love advice from a preteen—seem real and worthy of the viewer’s sympathy. Here is a winning movie about being a loser.

Like most real- life crushes, it’s funny and a little sad and also kind of sweet. JACKIENatalie Portman will win the Oscar or she won’t.

She gets the accent right or she doesn’t. Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone or he didn’t. It doesn’t matter. Jackie is not a movie about fixed truths.

As you can probably guess, last week’s episode of Game of Thrones—and its increasing dominance over the pop culture landscape—has filled the ol’ postman’s stolen mailbag to the brim. There are a few spoilers for last week’s episode, but more importantly, an answer to a question we should have been asking ourselves since the first episode: Should we want Daenerys and Jon Snow to fuck? Aunt, Man. Aaron W.: So I’ve been struggling with this question a lot: Is it ok to . So the aunt/nephew dynamic is an absolute deal breaker to modern audiences, but maybe wouldn’t be the worst thing in Westeros?

Lots of reasons it would be good, but one BIG reason it is unacceptable. Thoughts? Shipping is. I’ve seen worse than aunt and nephew. And the show is definitely presenting them as future romantic partners/fuckbuddies, which makes it as legitimate as these things get.

Their familial relationship may freak you out, but that’s sort of the point. GRRM wants to show a medieval, feudal- type era with all the awfulness most fantasies skip over. The relentless sexism, the rape and torture, the horror that regular people could and did experience constantly as the result of what the nobility chose to do—you can absolutely complain about how omnipresent it is in his stories and/or how it’s portrayed, but it’s not inaccurate to the source material of that reality. And one part of that reality is medieval (and certainly ancient) nobility’s tendency toward incest, especially between uncles and nieces—to the point where its got its own name, avunculate marriage.

As you said, the books/show have already shown that Targaryens have been more than willing to marry within the family in order to keep their bloodline pure, so there’s a precedent for Jon and Dany starting a relationship. And since we’re talking about an aunt and nephew here (since Jon is the son of Dany’s deceased brother Rhaegar) and not uncle/niece, a Jon/Dany hook- up would.

I am far more skeptical that Jon would be cool with sleeping with his aunt, given the rest of Westeros isn’t nearly as cool with incest (hence Cersei and Jaime’s hiding of their sexual relationship—well, until Cersei took the throne and decided that yes, in fact, as queen she gets to have sex with anyone she wants, and everyone else has to deal with it. Or be tortured and killed). But Jon’s problem is easily solved by keeping his parentage from him until after Ice and Fire have fucked each other. In fact, I suspect Bran is keeping/will keep the truth of Jon’s parentage from everyone until after Daenerys gets pregnant for that very reason. The Three- Eyed Raven knows this has to happen, so mum’s the word for now Or GRRM—or the show, for that matter, since we know it’s diverging from GRRM’s plan in major ways—could just throw a curveball and have Dany marry Gendry, the closest thing King Robert had to a legitimate heir, combining the Targaryen and Baratheon lines to create a progeny whose claim to the throne is unassailable throughout Westeros. Actually, that’s a pretty good idea!

He’s way at the bottom . No way Bronn can hold his breath long enough to get down there, cut all the straps to all the pieces of the armor, pull them off, and then also pull him to safety before they both drown. I’m not going to say it’s unrealistic, since Jaime was pushed into the water to avoid a dragon, but the point of Game of Thrones is that it has fantasy elements but it’s still realistic in the basic laws of physics. So isn’t Jaime getting rescued impossible? You bring up a good point about fantasy, in that the best fantasy has a set of rules, even if the audience doesn’t know them, and doesn’t break them. Someone suddenly having a “hoist person out of lake” spell to save Jaime would be dumb.

Tyrion running down the hell and begging Dany to have Drogon fish the dude who was about to kill her out of the lake is more realistic for Go. T, but implausible in terms of Dany’s character and the time it would take for Tyrion to get down to Dany and ask for her to save his brother. So that leaves Bronn. Here’s one thing we all need to make our peace with first, right now: Game of Thrones the TV show has begun playing fast and loose with strict reality in favor of presenting the most exciting story possible. This is how armies and fleets are moving gargantuan distances in- between and sometimes even during episodes. It’s why Tyrion can pick out Jaime from half a mile away amid a battlefield full of smoke and destruction. It’s why Cersei and her allies can suddenly kick ass or all of Highgarden’s gold can get into King’s Landing with a mutter and a handwave.

There are only nine episodes left, total, as of the time this mailbag hits the nerdernet. The show doesn’t have any time to waste.

Yes, part of the reason the books are so good is because they were sprawling and complicated in the way life is, and yes, the show is 1. I also, as I mentioned in my recap this week, think it doesn’t make any narrative sense for Bronn to push Jaime out of the way of a giant cone of dragon breath into a lake, only to have him immediately drown—if Weiss and Benioff are going to kill the character, having Jaime get turned into cinders by Drogon is a much, much cooler death. So I think the show will forgo realism (I mean, how was that lake at the side of that road a full 3. Bronn will cut Jaime out of his armor and drag him to the surface (because Jaime is the one who’s going to give him a castle, after all), and the Lannister will probably live to fight another day. And I also think he’ll be the one to perform those (book spoilers) valonqar duties, and obviously, he can’t do that if he’s dead. Last time I looked, I didn’t see any friendly priests of R’hllor nearby.

Where to even begin? Ser Barristan would have been the most solid member of Daenerys’ Queensguard due to military and combat experience, but his relationship to Rhaegar is most interesting. When Dany tells Jon that everyone loves doing what they’re best at, Jon disagrees. Ser Barristan once told Dany a similar story about her brother Rhaegar preferring singing in the street to killing. I also imagine Ser Barristan recognizing the late prince’s resemblance in Jon’s face, posture, or personality. Although Jon is very much Ned Stark in code and hair color, there would be a few opportunities for the show to make that connection. Are there any dead characters that would’ve enhanced the current story we have without breaking the series?

Barristan had to die because he had too many answers. He knew Rhaegar well, and he likely knew what Rhaegar was doing when he kidnapped Lyanna, or at the very least he knew whether Lyanna was kidnapped or went with him willingly. Download The New 3 Generations (2017) Movie there. Even though we know the result of their union was Jon Snow, the reason why Rhaegar kidnapped her, thus starting a chain of events that killed most of his family and ended their dynasty, is such an integral mystery that it’s going to need to be saved until the very end of the series.

Barristan may well have had those answers. The show could get away with not acknowledging this for a bit, while he hadn’t been in Daenerys’ service for long and wasn’t completely trusted. When Dany realized that Barristan knew her family pretty intimately, and was beginning to ask questions about them—well, that’s when he had to go. Barristan literally died in the same episode he began to tell stories Rhaegar (“Sons of the Harpy,” episode five). So yes, Barristan would added a great deal to the proceedings, but would have added too much, too soon.

My pick would be either Oberyn or Doran Martell, if only so one of them could make the Dorne storyline worth a damn. It would be cool so see Dorne have a major role to play in the great war other than serving as Cersei fodder. If a good Dorne storyline is off the table, I have to go Stannis, actually. Seeing him somehow bend the knee to Jon Snow and becoming part of the fight against the White Walkers would be really satisfying on a lot of levels, I think. But those are just mine—add and explain yours in the comments.