As Boas Maneiras (Good Manners, 2017)

Two women in São Paulo deal with pregnancy, love and werewolves.

The Last Jedi (2017)

A sea change in Star Wars.

The Disaster Artist (2017)

What might have been if they had taken a step back and dug further.

Justice League (2017)

The team assembles and it's not quite as super as it could be.

Mother (2017)

Mother may be my favorite comedy of the year. It’s essentially the haunted house and characters of Shirley Jackson and the kitchen sink emotional violence of Sam Shepherd whipped together into an over-the-top mix of creation and toxicity. There’s a lot here, from relationship problems to haunted houses to Michelle Pfieffer being awesome to a scary frog. It’s goofy fun.

Dunkirk (2017)

A satisfying movie about an interesting corner of World War II, but not much more.

Beware The Slenderman

An interesting surprise of a documentary, in that this look at the Slenderman assault in Wisconsin starts out as a look at memes and how they propagate and how this affected the two attempted murderers but then slowly shifts into a look at how mental illness was a factor. It's that second part that was much more interesting to me, as I was pretty much familiar with all the meme stuff (Creepy pasta, got it, Richard Dawkins, eh, memetics, so forth and so on). But the interviews with families of the girls involved in this get deeper and more complex as everyone tries to come to some sort of understanding of what happened (and jeeeez, did I feel for the parents of the accused).

2017 - Written and directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky