Best movies of 2017
We dissect the cinema of 2017. Here is our top ranking from best to worst based strictly on our editorial autopsies.
S. Craig Zahler delivers a staggeringly dry, deliberate, and brutal crime-and-prison thriller, featuring a colossal and relentless Vince Vaughn.
Yorgos Lanthimos takes Euripides' classic myth and injects it with an unrelenting clinical nightmare, where a surgeon’s guilt unleashes an unbearable physical curse.
Jordan Peele made his directorial debut with a razor-sharp social horror satire about hypnosis, liberal hypocrisy in the suburbs, and brain transplants—because nothing says "woke" like turning Black bodies into empty vessels for rich white folks.
Lanthimos turns trauma into grand guignol opera with Farrell, Kidman, and a Barry Keoghan who stares into your soul like a rusted scalpel. Chamber cinema hurtling toward horror at a glacial pace.
Demian Rugna revolutionizes paranormal horror—possessions, poltergeists, and all—by transplanting it to a residential neighborhood in Buenos Aires, armed with a devastating sound design that rattles your bones.
Caye Casas made her directorial debut alongside Albert Pintó in this hilarious, cruel, and pitch-black satirical farce where God is a dwarf vagrant forcing a dysfunctional family to choose the end of the world.
Tom Hardy rises from the dead to inherit an empire of rotting ships and enemies with grinning masks. A gothic masterpiece or a soap opera in dirty suits? Claqueta Ácida dissects this feast of shadows.
A French woman with a knife and style: feminist thriller or gratuitous exercise in cruelty? Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature splits opinions sharper than an axe through a skull.
The Claqueta Ácida review of A Ghost Story, a film that explores existence and human connection.
A scathing critique of the horror flick *Verónica*, based on an unsolved—and deeply unsettling—real-life case
Lucio A. Rojas delivers one of the most brutal, ruthless, and politically controversial films in Latin American extreme cinema.
The Indonesian horror flick that’ll leave you gasping for air—or praying for a quick death
"Mother!": A Descent into the Abyss (or: How Darren Aronofsky Turned Allegory into a Sledgehammer)
(2017)Claqueta Ácida’s most scathing takedown of Darren Aronofsky’s *Mother!*. A genius masterpiece or a pretentious mess? Spoiler: It’s both—like a Michelin-starred dumpster fire.
Sergio G. Sánchez crafts a gothic thriller with textures so rotten they reek of mothballs. Does it escape its own labyrinth of references, or does it drown in them?
*Leatherface* (2017): When New French Extremism Laces Up Its Texas Boots (And Fills Them with Blood)
(2017)Bustillo and Maury cross the pond to deliver a grimy, violent, and unpredictable prequel that blows up the chainsaw myth from the ground up.
Brendan Gleeson tries to salvage a script that reeks of mothballs and a pace slower than a Mercedes stuck in '90s traffic.
A scathing review of *Star Wars: The Last Jedi*, the biggest fan controversy in the galaxy—where the Force drowns in debates and memes.
