Our favorite movie posters of the year, as chosen by the Rotten Tomatoes staff!
The ‘dude with his back to the camera’ poster is typically Nolan’s bag (see Dunkirk, Inception), but Dark Tower did it best this year.
Blade Runner 2049‘s mulitple posters served looks, but we like the off-center simplicity of this one.
A sensuous orgy of death from Alien: Covenant.
Beautifully drawn variant for Atomic Blonde.
Pure a e s t h e t i c from Baby Driver. Reminsicent of Eizin Suzuki‘s stuff.
A24 probably did too good a job with It Comes At Night‘s enigmatic marketing campaign; audiences were disappointed when the film turned out to be a psychological thriller.
Hilarious parody of The Bodyguard‘s poster, with inappropriate tagline intact.
Ghost in the Shell variant.
Not exactly artistic, but effectively teases Get Out‘s shattering social weirdness.
A provocative close-up of The Field aka the Brendan Fraser Bollywood movie.
Preying on everybody’s memories of the infamous scene from the original IT miniseries.
The original John Wick had lousy posters; great to see confidence in Chapter 2‘s art.
Justice League does a wonderful tribute to Alex Ross. And finding a way to incorporate each hero’s logo into the tagline is genius.
The Killing of a Scared Deer found a way to make sterile hospital rooms even more uncomfortable.
A bananas Japanese poster for Kong: Skull Island. Impressively, every thing on the poster is actually in the movie.
This Lady Bird poster captures the inner turmoil of late adolescence without being overdramatic. Kinda wondrous.
A virtual tie with the other mother! poster.
Another hilarious parody, this time of the Stallone joint Cobra.
Tenuous, tender poster for War for the Planet of the Apes.
The Void pulls off some incredible thrills on a shoestring budget, and that extends to this eye-opening poster.
Thor: Ragnarok blasts some tantric color to Marvel’s usual line of floating heads posters.
Relaxed and with wide-open optimism, Spider-Man‘s poster shows off the best possible homecoming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
A keen blaxploitation throwback for Proud Mary, coming next year.
Obit has probably the best use of Helvetica since its unofficial banning from all serious movie poster design.
