Wondering which Hollywood movie to watch now? Here's a list of best five movies as of October 25, 2017 for you to watch.  

5. The Lost City of Z

Acclaimed American filmmaker James Gray (Two Lovers, The Immigrant) ventures for the first time outside New York City— and into the dark heart of the Amazon—withThe Lost City   of Z, an adaptation of David Grann's 2009 non-fiction  book of the same name. Such a geographic  relocation, however, does little to alter Gray's  fundamental artistic course, as his latest—about  early 20th century British explorer Percy Fawcett's  (Charlie Hunnam) repeated efforts to locate a lost  South American civilization that he believed to be  more advanced than any previously discovered –  boasts his usual classical aesthetics and empathetic  drama. Energized by a hint of Apocalypse Now's into-t  he-wild madness, this entrancing period piece is at  once a grand adventure, a social critique about class  and intolerance, and a nuanced character study about  an individual caught between his love for, and desire  to escape, his environment. Led by Hunnam, Robert  Pattinson, and Sienna Miller, it's also one of the  finest-acted dramas of the year. 

4. I Called Him Morgan

  Lee Morgan was one of the mid-century jazz scene's   brightest lights, until his life was cut tragically short     when his wife Helen fatally gunned him down in a       New York City nightclub on the snowy night of February 18, 1972. Using copious archival footage, newly recorded interviews with friends and collaborators, and, most illuminating of all, a tape-recorded 1996 interview with Helen made one month before her death, Kasper Collin's transfixing documentary I Called Him Morgan recounts this sad real-life saga as two separate stories—Lee's and Helen's—that eventually dovetailed, intertwined, and then combusted in horrific fashion. Abandonment, drug abuse, and betrayal all factor into this sorrowful equation, as Collin assuredly conveys the messy stew of passion, need, ego, loneliness, and fury that eventually begat such a calamity. In doing so, it recognizes the jazzy spirit of Lee and Helen's doomed romance—and, also, the riffing-our-way-forward nature of life itself. 

3. Okja

Bong Joon Ho's Okja is many things at once: a rollicking kid's fable about the bond between a young South Korean girl (Byun Hee-bong) and her genetically enhanced super-pig (named Okja); a satiric critique of the corporate food industry; a wacko comedy about transcending cultural boundaries; and a fantastical adventure full of kidnappings and chases, buoyed by over-the-top performances from Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal, and culminating with a Times Square spectacular and a Holocaust-esque trip to the slaughterhouse. Most of all, however, it's the year's most exhilaratingly idiosyncratic work, indebted to the spirit of both Steven Spielberg and Hayao Miyazaki, and energized by the distinctive signature of its director. Vacillating between mirthful, madcap and morose on a dime, Bong's latest—about Byun's heroine trying to reunite with Okja after the animal is reclaimed by the conglomerate that created her—is both all over the place and yet assuredly coherent. Whether viewed on a big screen or via Netflix (its exclusive distributor), it's a wondrous whatsit unlike anything you've quite seen before. 

2. I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Suspenseful and hilarious, despondent and optimistic, I Don't Feel at Home in This World   Anymore is a masterful genre film, one that      immerses itself in the small, painful indignities of  everyday life, and then casts the battle against  those wrongs as a serio-comic odyssey of  sleuthing, heavy metal, and nunchakus. After her  house is burglarized, nurse Ruth (Melanie Lynsky)  partners with her rat-tailed martial-arts-loving  neighbor Tony (Elijah Wood) to recover her stolen  belongings. Their ensuing black-comedy adventure  is grimy, bloody, and ridiculous, as director Macon  Blair (best known for his performances in Jeremy  Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room) pitches his  material as an absurdist neo-noir saga about  combatting existential despair. Courtesy of a great  Lynsky performance that's equal parts miserable  and furious, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance before premiering exclusively on Netflix) finds humor and horror in the notion that "everyone is an asshole"—and then locates hope in the closing-note idea that, rather than worrying about them, life is best spent in the company of those precious few who aren't. 

1. Lady Macbeth

Hell hath no fury like a woman oppressed, as is shockingly born out by William Oldroyd's phenomenal feature directing debut—an adaptation not of the Bard but, rather, of Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. In a breakout performance of  coiled intensity and ruthless cunning, Florence  Pugh is Katherine, a young woman sold into  marriage to an older landowner (Paul Hilton),  whose nastiness is only surpassed by that of his  domineering father (Christopher Fairbank). That  union is rife with problems from the start, though  despite the film's Shakespeare-referencing title,  the path it wends is an original and horrifying one.  Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir  saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this  twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious  racial- and gender-warfare issues, employing a  meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story  about Katherine's at-any-cost attempts to attain  liberation. Like its protagonist, it's a film that's  placid and refined on the outside, ferocious and  pitiless on the inside.

 
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