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The Best Movies and TV Shows of 2. So Far. As we head off to our Fourth of July holidays to celebrate what’s left of America, it’s time to take a look back at the year we’ve had so far. Somehow we’re halfway through 2. TV. Which certainly is worth celebrating.

For this list, we’re only counting movies and television that were released before July 1, so while we’d love to include wonderful things like War for the Planet of the Apes or A Ghost Story, we’ll have to save that praise for later. In the meantime, these 2. We’re not ranking them 1- 1.

We’ll save that for December. Movies. Courtesy of Universal Pictures. Writer- director Jordan Peele’s first feature is a stylish, trenchant horror film. It’s also grimly funny, though it has a real anger and sorrow lying knotted at its heart. A tale of race and racism that in no way attempts to placate or soothe, Get Out has an electrifying boldness to it, the immediate and tingling thrill of seeing something expressed on screen that is so rarely allowed to be.

From 2. 0th Century Fox/Everett Collection. A superhero movie with a fatalist- humanist bent, small and intimate in scale, James Mangold’s sad, crunching finish to the Wolverine saga has brutal, flinty flair. Hugh Jackman tears into this tough material with grizzled intensity, reminding us that not all superheroes have to be slick and quippy. It’s a grief drama, a paranoid techno- horror, a metaphysical inquiry into the supernatural, a tour of the banalities of the fashion world.

In jumbling its tropes and styles, Personal Shopper captures something both mysterious and piercingly relatable. Assayas and his wise and marvelous star Kristen Stewart say something chilling, comforting, hopeful, and mysterious about what it is to be alive in the world—and, just maybe, what it is to not be. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures. At the beginning of this year, if you’d told me that between Daniel Espinosa’s. Life and Ridley Scott’s.

Alien: Covenant, Espinosa’s film would be the superior extraterrestrial thriller, I’d have called you crazy. But, here we are. While Covenant is an eye- rolling slog, Life has surprising smarts and visual invention. The alien is squishy and terrifying, the performances—from Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson most of all—are thoughtful and engaging, and the movie rattles with a disarming, elegantly realized dread.

What more could you want from a springtime B- movie? From Neon/Everett Collection. All we initially knew about this movie was that Anne Hathaway plays a woman who has somehow mind- melded with a monster that is attacking South Korea.

Which sounded fun enough. But Nacho Vigalondo’s arch, biting film has a lot more on its mind than mere wacky sci- fi. As it crescendos to its rather stirring grand finale, Colossal becomes a pushback against the culture of toxic, entitled masculinity, a furious fantasy pitched with a stinging righteousness. It’s dark, odd entertainment, and Hathaway gives her most engaging performance in years. Your Name. From FUNimation/Everett Collection. Makoto Shinkai’s achingly gorgeous animated feature was a worldwide smash last year, but it only opened in the States this spring. Thank heavens it finally did.

Shinkai’s strange, poignant body- swap tale—about a city boy and a country girl who are cosmically linked somehow—is as sweet and magical as a first kiss. There’s an arresting existential whisper murmuring through the jungle that Gray so richly renders, beautiful and menacing and metaphorical.

Tragically overlooked in its release, The Lost City of Z is Gray’s first true masterpiece. Courtesy of Lacey Terrell/Roadside Attractions. This dreamy, gentle film does something cathartically cruel. How To Watch Pray For Rain (2017) Online. It draws you in, lulls you with its soft tone and understated, mellow performances. And then it utterly guts you.

Director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White set up a kicky social comedy—Salma Hayek plays a masseuse who squares off against a Trumpian billionaire (played by John Lithgow) when her client invites her to a dinner party. But the story they’re telling ultimately proves far more serious, far more despondent than any awkward fish- out- water tale. An almost unbearably timely movie, Beatriz at Dinner is a brilliantly acted (especially by Hayek), gorgeously shot and scored movie that, in the end, says, Yup, everything’s terrible, and then walks off tantalizingly into the night. Hopeless, but mesmerizingly so.

Courtesy of Ben Rothstein/Focus Features. Small and pointy as a dagger hidden in a petticoat, Sofia Coppola’s handsome, efficient Civil War- era thriller finds the filmmaker working in surprisingly compact mode. She’s also doing something more narrative than she’s ever done before, a risk that pays off. Coppola has perhaps copped- out by avoiding the topic of race in a movie about the Civil War—especially considering the women are, nominally, Confederate supporters. But as a piece of technical filmmaking—and acting from Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst—this quick, wry 9.

Courtesy of Barry Wetcher/Netflix. A heartening and galvanizing call to resistance, Bong Joon- ho’s peculiar and rollicking story of a girl and her giant pig- hippo creature is uneven. Some of its comedy is too broad and mannered.

But when the movie clicks into place, dashing off on a whizzing chase scene or slowing down for a moment of quiet introspection, it’s really something. The spirited cast is led by impressive newcomer Ahn Seo- hyun, who helps ground all of Bong’s whimsical flights of fancy in a decidedly human place. Okja is an effective rallying cry for compassion, one with heart and a healthy perspective. Which is probably what a lot of us need right now.—Richard Lawson. TVThere was an enormous amount of pressure riding on HBO’s The Leftovers as it headed into its third and final season.

Whether the show “stuck the landing” would serve as either a referendum on or redemption of embattled showrunner Damon Lindelof, still licking his wounds from the 2. Lost. But the melancholy, weird, and utterly absorbing third season of The Leftovers not only stuck the landing—it drew near- total adulation from critics and fans alike, a rare feat these days. The nearly perfect eight- episode season not only showcased the acting talents of its heavy- hitting cast—including Carrie Coon, Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, and Christopher Eccleston—but also delivered a deep meditation on faith and human relationships that somehow managed not to drown in its own self- seriousness. There’s still a lot of great TV to come in 2.

The Leftovers Season 3. Courtesy of Donald Rager/ABC. Alas, this oddball gem of a sitcom has already been cancelled by ABC, but it’s not too late to celebrate its gone- too- soon beauty.

Starring Fargo alum Allison Tolman,Raising Hope’s. Lucas Neff, and a delightfully wry talking dog, the quirky comedy never felt quite like network material. But anyone (animal lover or no) looking for a sweet story of a compelling woman torn between work, romance, and, well, the responsibilities of being a pet owner should catch up with this short season. Maybe, maybe, if Downward Dog gets enough love, ABC will rescue it from the cancellation pile.

Stranger things have happened. If the first season of Master of None was very much the quasi- autobiographical Louie model remixed through the lens of Aziz Ansari’s experiences as an actor, foodie, and son of immigrant parents, Season 2 transcends that to become its own thing. Unconcerned with conventional parameters like episode running time, coloring consistency, or the main characters appearing for most of an episode, Ansari and his crew flexed all their experimental creative muscles to create a bold season of television that meticulously blended the bitter with the sweet. Standout elements like guest- star Angela Bassett, love interest Alessandra Mastronardi, and the sumptuous Italian countryside all help elevate Ansari’s winning star turn to a 2.