Your Favorite Stars Geek Out Over Their Favorite Movies of 2017

By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | January 3, 2018 |

By Kristy Puchko | Celebrity | January 3, 2018 |

This is the time of year when writers, directors, actors, and even lowly film critics get inundated with screeners, meaning DVDs of this year’s most buzzed about movies. It’s so we can vote in our various guilds for award honors. And it means this is the time of year when we get to see celebrities geek out about their favorite movies of the year. Like who knew the Rock was so into docs?

Documentarian Errol Morris was stunned to see Dwayne Johnson might have been checking out Wormwood, his 6-part documentary about a top-secret experiment that ended in a grim death.

Is the Rock watching Wormwood? pic.twitter.com/P4v2ZFVzFn

— errolmorris (@errolmorris) December 22, 2017

He was.

WORMWOOD is great. Love the piece you wrote! “We all reconstruct reality for ourselves again and again and again” Yes we do. Go Katie! 🤙🏾👊🏾 https://t.co/3LCE4jtnkB

— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) December 23, 2017

In 2010, Duncan Jones won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut for a British Director for Moon. Now, he’s voting for Jordan Peele’s debut Get Out. But in which categories!?

Just voted for GET OUT where it counts. Good luck, Jordan!

— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 2, 2018

Barry Jenkins, director of Best Picture winner Moonlight, showed love for Call Me By Your Name.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME — sweetness without a trace of sentimentality; a work made without fear of sentimentality. Sweetness beside sex. Sex that transmutes love. An intellectually rigorous examination that never loses warmth. Earnest, mature and endearing the whole way through.

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) December 29, 2017

And I’m glad I waited to see it in a theatre. Had no idea it was shot on emulsion. I may be reaching, but there’s a tension between the grain and the focus here. A delicate tension for sure. A struggle to resolve. A fleeting, elegiac struggle to resolve.

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) December 29, 2017

Big Fish screenwriter John August used Lady Bird as a teachable moment or three.

Also, hi @BeanieFeldstein you were great in this.

— John August (@johnaugust) January 2, 2018

RuPaul gave a shout out to “Sir Shaw” Ronan and company.

LOVED film "Lady Bird." Sir Shaw, Greta Gerwig & Laurie Metcalf for the win. Beanie Feldstein is effen brilliant, too. pic.twitter.com/ndRqvj5vqV

— RuPaul (@RuPaul) December 23, 2017

James Mangold, who helmed the lauded Logan, went gaga over Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water.

Wow! @RealGDT! Thank you for your astounding & daring “SHAPE OF WATER”. You made such a devastating joyous personal moving humane fanciful honest beautifully crafted complex intimate imaginative romantic spectacle. My hat is off. Folks, please go see it in a movie theater!

— Mangold (@mang0ld) December 31, 2017

Ocean’s 8’s Mindy Kaling is also a fan, particularly of Michael Shannon’s scowling baddie.

“We need an actor to play a sadistic man who tortures a beautiful opalescent merman”. Michael Shannon: “It shall be me and no one else.”

— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) December 31, 2017

Russell Crowe, who you might remember head-butted Colin Farrell off the Brooklyn Bridge in Winter’s Tale, loves James Franco’s comedy about the making of The Room. Forever on brand.

Just watched The Disaster Artist . You should too. pic.twitter.com/I2F1lQwZYx

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) December 28, 2017

Thor: Ragnarok’s Mark Ruffalo loved The Last Jedi.

Hello @rianjohnson Great job with #LastJedi. So many amazing turns in it. Great acting and great women’s roles. Luke’s blue light saber. Silly Kylo.

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) December 22, 2017

On the other hand, Keanu director Peter Atencio has a serious question about Alexander Payne’s Downsizing. And we get it. We really do.

Hello, please direct me to any and all articles that explain why the movie DOWNSIZING was made. Thanks in advance.

— Peter Atencio (@Atencio) December 31, 2017

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