Be sure to check back on December 20 to see IGN's Best Dramatic Movie of 2017 winner. And of course our opinion isn't the only one that matters — cast your vote in the poll at the bottom of the page to help decide the IGN People's Choice selection!
From IGN's Darkest Hour Review: Joe Wright, the director of Atonement and Anna Karenina, never resists the urge to spruce up an old-fashioned character piece with bombastic filmmaking. In Darkest Hour, Wright sculpts scenes out of darkness and smoke, and seemingly knows the right moments to rotate his camera for dramatic effect. He’s not showing off; he’s telling a story about people talking in rooms with all the cinematic dynamism he needs to sell just how important the words really are. And he does his job extremely well.
From IGN's Dunkirk Review: Dunkirk doesn’t dwell on the horror of war but instead successfully conveys the sheer terror of it all through both small, human acts and deafening scenes of conflict. This isn’t a war story that leads to victory – that’s not what the story of Dunkirk is about – it was a retreat, an inglorious defeat. The war would continue for five more years. But through its miraculous events, Nolan and an outstanding cast of both young unknowns and veterans are able to depict not only the overwhelming, inhuman forces in play but the power of small acts of decency and bravery.
A Ghost Story feels like a poem put on film. It’s a gorgeous, ephemeral story of love, loss, and coping with the emptiness you feel when you a loved one is gone. With a pair of incredible performances by Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, the movie drifts through time and space as it shows the eternal flame of love. A haunting score and stunning cinematography show us a world that’s painfully intimate, while simultaneously being as vast as existence itself. Simply put, few movies have ever captured the pains of loss quite like A Ghost Story.
From IGN's The Lost City of Z Review: The Lost City of Z marks yet another impressive addition to director James Gray’s growing filmography. Featuring a career-best lead performance from Charlie Hunnam and some truly awe-inspiring visuals, it’s yet another one of this year’s can’t-miss films. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of The Lost City of Z is how it manages to feel appropriately massive, and yet simultaneously small and intimate, which should speak to the talents of Gray as a filmmaker more than anything else.
From IGN's Only the Brave Review: Only The Brave isn’t exactly complicated, as far as dramas go, but it’s also not trying to be. It’s a straightforward celebration of these heroes’ lives, with a few meaningful revelations along the way, but nothing that will completely blow your mind. These are interesting, likable people who led interesting, exciting lives. Joseph Kosinski’s film follows them from their days as underdogs through their greatest successes and tragedies, and when that kind of story is as strikingly presented as Only The Brave, it’s more than enough.
From IGN's Roman J. Israel, Esq. Review: It would have been easy for Roman J. Israel Esq., the movie, to transform into a pat legal thriller by the time all the danger seeps in. And to be fair, director Dan Gilroy seems to have made his judgment about Roman, who doesn’t seem to notice that his stalwart principles have had a transformative impact on every single person around him. His patience might even have been rewarded, but patience doesn’t pay bills, and the sudden influx of comfort into an impossibly stressful existence can be a very addictive narcotic. But even that just gives Roman J. Israel, Esq. another devastating layer of tragic irony.
From IGN's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is an uncompromising, heart-wrenching tale of loss. Writer and director Martin McDonagh takes the striking visual image of the three billboards at the heart of the film, and surrounds them with some of the most memorable characters in any movie this year. It’s true that most may not be prepared for the film’s intense sadness and anger. And yet, the film’s injection of humor throughout helps to make it feel not like just some nihilistic tangent, but instead, a story of one woman’s struggle to come to terms with her daughter’s death. Even more extraordinary, is how the film manages to involve the other men and women surrounding Mildred, who bare witness to her fury and come out the other side, transformed.
Voting closes on December 19, so cast your vote for Best Drama Movie now!
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