Baby Driver (2017)
Chosen by me as I like to go to the cinema a lot. Also it's an Edgar Wright movie - c'mon!
A musical without dancing.
Just super cool, the soundtrack is this years Guardians of the Galaxy breakout film sound.
Pacy and exciting this manages to pull off a move that in many of directors hands would be excruciating. An almost wall to wall juke box of songs (see suicide squad for how nauseating this can be) that has emotional resonance and gives the whole film a fresh rhythm despite it's constituent parts being fairly stale (one last job, getaway driver tropes a plenty).
Spacey has not seemed this interesting in a film for a long time and everyone brings something a little extra to mostly one dimensional roles.
Especially Lily James, whose Deborah is mostly just a prize for Baby to get away from crime for, but who seems so much more on the screen.
Can't help but think that maybe Wright could do with someone like a Jessica Hynes with him to co-write as this certainly continues the trend of underdeveloped female characters and easily his biggest weakness as a creator.
Still, all in just fun and funny stuff.
Also, and this may be a massive shock to everyone, I'm a total nerd.
And I've started doing little video playlists for my friends before we watch a film together (if i've seen it before). Here's one i did for baby driver
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