

Jones is a captured aquatic creature, clearly based on one of the all-time great movie monsters, The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Hawkins is a mute and mild-mannered laboratory janitor. The Hellboy films failed to break out, and Pacific Rim only barely squeaked past $100 million domestically, relying on foreign grosses to justify its upcoming sequel.ĭel Toro's latest film, The Shape of Water, is a provocative fairy tale love story starring Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones. Like Edgar Wright, Guillermo Del Toro is an acclaimed auteur director who just hasn't had a significant mainstream box office hit. The fact that those movies didn't win a spot on this list is just more proof that 2017 was a tightly competitive year, chock full of incredible cinematic experiences. It would be a shame to begin without mentioning the numerous runners up movies like Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2, It Comes at Night, American Made, and I, Tonya, among so many others. There were so many excellent picks from which to choose, but here are The 20 Best Movies Of 2017 (According To Rotten Tomatoes). These are the highest-scoring movies of the year, based on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes. Here are the best of the best, twenty films which defined 2017. This year saw a magnificent mixture of crowd-pleasing epics, deep dramas, and genre-bending movies that combined high-octane thrills with risky storytelling decisions and fascinating characterizations. For proof of that statement, look no further than this very list. While there were definitely some major duds like Transformers: The Last Knight, Justice League, and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the successes of 2017 definitely outnumbered the disappointments. In terms of both big-budget blockbusters and intimate indies, every month delivered a slew of critical and commercial hits. There's no denying it: 2017 was a banner year for film.
