Best Movies of 1987
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Full Metal JacketParris Island is perfect and Vietnam is merely very good, which is the film's whole problem.Read the review
The Princess BrideA fairy tale that mocks fairy tales and then delivers one straight, with dialogue people have quoted for forty years.
Empire of the SunSpielberg's one war film about a child nobody rescues, and the boy at its center is why it holds.
RoboCopVerhoeven smuggles a passion play and a savage ad break inside the nastiest cop movie of 1987.
Mio in the Land of FarawayA Soviet crew's eerie images trapped inside an English dub that flattens every feeling they manage to build.