best movies 2017 thru 2018 rotten tomatoes

However, the elements within the format work well enough that I can forgive it. I mention this right off the bat because a lot of critics have praised this films format, and I really can't as much, since it feels like they cheated with it a bit to me. However, since so much of this story takes place in the internet, I can accept its format. It threw me off at first, and made me wonder why this format was even necessary if they weren't going to stick to it. There are montages, timejumps, and cuts across different machines. We are not stuck to one computer, and even on one computer the camera will still pan around the screen. Unfriended was real time and straight on, Searching uses the format more to tell its story in a unique way.

For example, Blair Witch Project altogether made sense as a 'found' footage movie, whereas later movies of the type raise the question of 'who found this and who edited this altogether?' Searching has a similar oddity. Similar to how other movies expanded from Blair Witch Project though, there is an odd subtext here. Taking the microgenre within the found footage genre of the all-on-your-computer-screen genre (I guess it's a thing?), Searching expands from the formula in Unfriended.

Best movies 2017 thru 2018 rotten tomatoes