Best movies of 2017 on amazon prime

The Big Sick(2017)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 89

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.



Stronger(2017)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope after surviving the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.



Downsizing(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.



Last Flag Flying(2017)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.



The Glass Castle(2017)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.



The Wall(2017)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Two American Soldiers are trapped by a lethal sniper, with only an unsteady wall between them.



Megan Leavey(2017)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.



Wonderstruck(2017)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.



Wonder Wheel(2017)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 65

On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife, and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.



Jungle(2017)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.



The Hero(2017)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.



XX(2017)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Four short horror films that are directed and written by women.



The Shack(2017)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called "The Shack."



Landline(2017)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair.



1945(2017)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 70

12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.



Crooked House(2017)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 48

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.



The Only Living Boy in New York(2017)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Adrift in New York City, a recent college graduate's life is upended by his father's mistress.



Crown Heights(2017)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 64

When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence.



Thirst Street(2017)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.



Tiger Zinda Hai(2017)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Inspired by real events, Tiger Zinda Hai is a sequel to the blockbuster Ek Tha Tiger, and an espionage action thriller that follows an adventurous rescue mission in Iraq.




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