What was the best movie you saw in the past two or three years?

ICBM

12 Years A Slave is probably the best.

Honourable mentions to The Theory Of Everything, Grand Budapest Hotel and Rogue One, all of which I've got on DVD having seen them at the cinema.

quarky

Just looked for Kingsmen and can't find it on IMDB.. Is that its full name?

snakemanStoo

quarky said:

Just looked for Kingsmen and can't find it on IMDB.. Is that its full name?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802144/

Fuengi

A film that had stayed with me for the past couple of years, for the performances and theme is 'Take Shelter'.

Incredible central performance from Michael Shannon, I loved the unsettling tension and analogous script.

A real slow burner but I keep thinking back on it. 

timmysoft

Midnight Special, genuinely the best Earth based sci-fi since Close Encounters.

 Really enjoyed Straight Outta Compton and i'm not a big fan of rap music!

 Kill The Irishman, i can't believe that Tara Reid has a hand in this, its so bloody good!

 I didn't really rate Kingsmen, infact i fell asleep watching it, twice!

littlegreenman

Guardians of the Galaxy - very entertaining.

The Hunt - quite unnerving in it's depiction of something that likely happens more often than we may know of.

Sharknado IV - Simply for the "radioactive-nado", and Tara Reid

JezWynd

Carol by Todd Haynes. Low key film, beautifully composed and shot and excellent performances by Blanchett and Mara. Had a really moving final shot, kinda like an emotional counterpoint to the last shot of Brokeback Mountain.

equalsql

Arrival - an incredible adaption of the brilliant​ novella: "Story Of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

IvanMC

Hector. I really thought it pretty profound and touching. Am I being corny?

frank1985

The Revenant was excellent. 

BRISTOL86

littlegreenman said:

The Hunt - quite unnerving in it's depiction of something that likely happens more often than we may know of.

Great film, completely forgot that one!

Also Prisoners - very uncomfortable watch at times but fantastic. 

JezWynd

equalsql said:

Arrival - an incredible adaption of the brilliant​ novella: "Story Of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

Really? I'd have nominated that as turkey of the decade. Dreadful film.

earwighoney

JezWynd said:

Carol by Todd Haynes. Low key film, beautifully composed and shot and excellent performances by Blanchett and Mara. Had a really moving final shot, kinda like an emotional counterpoint to the last shot of Brokeback Mountain.

If you've not seen 'Far From Heaven' it's a great film worth watching from the same director. 

DarnWeight

Been some really great horror films released in the last few years, which have broken out of the "found footage" rut the genre has been in for a while...

The Witch
It Follows
The Babadook
Get Out

Philly_Q

I'd agree with @DarnWeight's suggestions, and add:

Raw
Green Room
Nina Forever
Housebound

TheMarlin

Scott Pilgrim
Moonrise Kingdom
GOTG
Almost Famous 
Her
City of God
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind
Let the right one in (original Swedish)
No Country for old men. 

starwarsnosebleed

Philly_Q said:

I'd agree with @DarnWeight's suggestions, and add:

Raw
Green Room
Nina Forever
Housebound

..i would agree with all those and add 'Dont breathe'. 

@TheMarlin pretty sure most of those films you mentioned are way more than 3 yrs old.

EricTheWeary

Surprised by the love for Kingsmen , it's okay but if that's the best film of the last three years perhaps I should read more. 

Having said that pretty much everything that came to mind for me is older than that so maybe it was  

Honourable mentions for Logan as rising above the majority of super hero films ( despite being a Marvel obsessive in my youth I've generally found them to be disappointing), Whiplash for the performances and Amy for a well made documentary.

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

Honourable mentions for Logan as rising above the majority of super hero films ( despite being a Marvel obsessive in my youth I've generally found them to be disappointing), Whiplash for the performances and Amy for a well made documentary.

Yes, I forgot Whiplash, great film.  So much so that it actually persuaded me to watch a musical i.e. La La Land... which was OK.

Panama_Jack666

Django Unchained. Hateful Eight was also very good.

Hell or High Water was another stand out film for me.