What was the best film you saw this week? (11/12/2017 - 17/12/2017)

The /r/movies BEST OF 2017 series returns on Wednesday, December 27! As you attempt to recover from your holiday parties, think back to all the new movies you watched this year, and tell us about the ones you loved!DateTopicWednesday, December 27Best Score of 2017Thursday, December 28Best Trailer of 2017Friday, December 29Best Scene from a 2017 FilmSaturday, December 30Best Performance of 2017Sunday, December 31Best Film of 2017**The customary Sunday "What was the best film you watched this week?" thread, to discuss all the other movies not from 2017 that you enjoyed that week, will be posted on December 31 as well.The way this works is that you post a review of the best film you saw last week. It doesn't have to be a new release, just any film you have seen over the last seven days that you feel is worth talking about. Here are some rules.1. Check to see if your favourite film of last week has been posted already.2. Please post your favourite film of last week.3. NO TV SHOWS!4. ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Report any comments that spoil recent / little-known films without using the spoiler tag. NOT EVERYONE HAS SEEN THE LAST JEDI YET!5. Comments that only contain the title of the film will be removed!Here are some great comments from last week's thread:Mother (마더) - (not to be confused with Mother(1996) or mother! (2017) - Holy crap, this movie... It's part psychological thriller, part very dark comedy (a la Fargo), and part Shakespearean tragedy. I will try to summarize it without any spoilers. It's very difficult because it's such an amazingly directed film, but let me tell you - it packs a wallop, and you'd need to see it for yourself. It starts off the standard murder mystery route. A strange, eccentric medicinal herb peddler only known as Mother (played by Kim Hye-ja - more about her in a moment) is extremely overprotective of her dimwitted, mentally challenged son Do-joon- almost comically so. After a golfer hits him with his Mercedes, he and his punk friend Jin-tae go out to pursue the golfer, smashing his parked car and stealing his golf balls. Do-joon decides to go to a bar that night and get wasted. He also tries to hit on some girls that night, but with no success. The next morning, the body of a schoolgirl named Moon Ah-jung is found hanging outside the window of an abandoned building. Authorities suspect Do-joon of murdering her, and arrest him.Mother, believing he could not have done it, then goes on an absolutely maddening quest - with a little help from Jin-tae - to clear his name. That's all I'm going to say. Kim Hye-ja does something few actors and actresses can do - grab you by the collar of your shirt and drag you straight into their character's psyche. Her performance is so emotionally powerful and gripping, I hesitate to call it a performance; you'd swear she's actually a madwoman. Anyway, it's an excellent movie, 9.5/10 would absolutely recommend- go check it out on Netflix (it's in Korean, but don't worry - it's subtitled.)Call Me By Your Name - This is honestly one of the best films I have ever seen. Every shot oozes with sensuality and beauty. Guadagnino's direction made me smell the food on the dinner table, feel the Italian heat on my skin, and remind me of circling my fingers on a lover's chest. It's really not a "gay movie," although the main relationship is a homosexual one. It's not a trite and typical "coming out" story - there's no life-or-death fear of discovery. It's simply a beautiful, exquisitely sensitive story of a doomed, passionate romance. On every level - acting, photography, film scoring (the opening track by John Adams and the two original Sufjan Stevens songs are standouts and match the action perfectly), this film is a tour de force. There are also strong classical motifs throughout, such as ancient statues, that help create a sense of eroticism (and it is erotic) without falling into smut. Guadagnino also uses nature to great effect, creating a sense of classical purity. He also swings you back and forth emotionally. I don't know how else to describe it other than: It's some of the most believable, deepest romantic chemistry I've ever seen. They are so convincingly in love. I saw it with three friends and after the credits, none of us felt ready to leave the theater. On a personal level, the events of the film happened to mirror a similar event of my life. Although there was no age difference, I had a quasi-relationship with a more experienced and more confident man while we were studying in Italy - my first real homosexual experience. I knew it couldn't last, and I knew that we were very different people, but somehow, during those months, we needed each other. Cheesy as it sounds, this film helped me come to terms with the impermanence of past relationships like these, even though they happened years ago. That's the power of this movie. I believe it's hitting wide release later this month. I highly, highly recommend it. It's not for everyone (think realism meets art house), and you shouldn't see it with a blood relative (it's almost X-Rated), but if you let yourself be moved by it, it will mess you up. In the best way.Bad Genius. I wouldn't call this movie underrated or overlooked because it has great reviews, and apparently it's really big and popular in Asia, but it was definitely the most surprising movie of the year for me. When I first heard the plot (a group of high school students try to smuggle out exam answers and sell them for a high price), I thought this was gonna have the depth and quality of YouTube Red and Netflix originals aimed for WOKE tweens (namely the absolutely horrible Coin Heist and The Thinning), but what I got instead was one of the most intense, real, and thrilling films of 2017. The stakes were way lower than your usual heist film; if the characters failed, they wouldn't die or go to jail, they would simply get expelled from school, but this just made it feel more relatable. We've ALL cheated on exams, and we all know the crazy anxiety and adrenaline rush that we felt fearing the humiliation and consequences of getting caught, and this film absolutely nailed those feelings to a T. Every exam taking scene was a nail biter and scarier than most horror movies, it sounds so stupid but it's honestly so unbelievably intense. The film also benefits from having a great sense of humor, good acting, and a fast paced editing style that is very reminiscent of Edgar Wright films. If it wasn't for Good Time and Get Out being so exceptionally great, I would confidently call Bad Genius the best thriller of the year, and it's definitely the most fun I've had watching a movie in 2017. Greatly recommended.For further expansion of the rules, please read this link.Have fun and play nice! via /r/movies http://ift.tt/2kGjSZc