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Best Films of 2017

1. The Shape of Water

2. Dunkirk

3. Three Billboards Outside Billings, Missouri

4. Kong: Skull Island

5. Lucky

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Best exploitation: Don’t Breathe

 

 

 

 

Best Films 2016 (see CinemaDope.com for full story)

1. Fences

2. The Witch

3. Christine

4. Birth of a Nation

5. Midnight Special

6. Moonlight

7. La La Land

8. Paterson

9. Manchester by the Sea

10. Deadpool

Best Exploitation: “Don’t Breathe,” “Green Room,” “Blood Father”

Best Foreign Films: France’s “Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart,” Chile’s “Neruda”

Worst

Star Trek Beyond

Jackie

Race

Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice

 

Best Films 2015

1. Beasts of No Nations

2. What We Do in the Shadows

3. Mad Max: Fury Road

4. Sicario

5. Ex Machina

6. White God

7. Bone Tomahawk

8. Brooklyn

9. Spotlight

10. The Hateful Eight

11. Best Exploitation: “It Follows,” “Bone Tomahawk”

Foreign

1. Black Souls
2. White God

Worst

1. The D Train

2. Youth

Best Films of 2014

1. Under the Skin

2. Birdman

3. Boyhood

4. Grand Budapest Hotel

5. The Homesman

6. The Skeleton Twins

7. Nightcrawler

8. Snowpiercer

9. Force Majeure

10. Life Itself

11. Flamenco Flamenco

12. Cold in July

Best Exploitation: In the Blood

Best Foreign Film: Force Majeure

Best Documentary: Life Itself

Worst

1. Wild

2. Interstellar

3. Godzilla

Best Films of 2013

1. Mud

2. All Is Lost

3. Captain Phillips

4. Prisoners

5. Gravity

6. Side Effects

7. Simon Killer

8. The Place Beyond the Pines

9. Don Jon

10. 12 Years a Slave

Worst

1. The Counselor

2. The Lone Ranger

3. Only God Forgives

Best Films (Thus Far) of 2012

1. Compliance

2. Moonrise Kingdom

3. Lawless

4. Wake in Fright

5. Paperboy

6. Chronicle

7. Bernie

8. Flight

9. Skyfall

10.

Worst

1. Magic Mike

2. John Carter

Best Films (Thus Far) of 2011*

1. Drive

2. Warrior

3. The Help

4. The Debt

5. Bridesmaids

6. Thirteen Assassins (Japan)

7. Limitless

8. Win Win

9. Take My Eyes (Spain)

10. Source Code

11. A bout portant (Point Blank, France)

12. Come Undone (Italy, 2010)

13. The Housemaid (S. Korea)

BEST EXPLOITATION

1. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

2. I Saw the Devil (S. Korea)

3. Dream Home (Hong Kong)

4. Wrecked (Canada-U.S.)

BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life”

MOST OVERRATED: Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris”

WORST

1. Arthur

2. The Tourist

3. Dream House

4. Straw Dogs

5. The Rite

6. Cowboys & Aliens

7. Just Go with It

8. Hall Pass

9. Paul

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* Some of these titles are from 2010, but only found U.S. distribution this year.

Best Picture:

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti (“Win Win”)

Best Actress: Jennifer Chastain (“Tree of Life,” “The Debt,” “The Help”)

Supporting Actor: Nick Nolte (“Warrior”)

Supporting Actress: Viola Davis (“The Help”)

Best Cinematography: Drive

Best Screenplay

Best Director

Best Foreign Film: Thirteen Assassins