'Mudbound' tops Mark Olsen's 10 best films of 2017

[The Patriot]

'Mudbound' tops Mark Olsen's 10 best films of 2017

12-29-2017 07:44 AM

It's as if the movies answered our call. In a year that has seemed long and confusing, movies became an unexpected centering point, a beacon. As the era of Peak TV has toppled over on itself, cinema at least partly took back the reins of cultural conversation. Amid an ongoing onslaught of news and information, the idea of genuinely focusing on something else for a few hours often seemed the better thing to do.


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