10 Best Movie Posters Of 2017

1. Mother!

Mother Jennifer Lawrence
Paramount Pictures

Few, if any 2017 movies caught both critics and audiences so unawares as Darren Aronofsky's mother! Headlined by Oscar-winning superstar Jennifer Lawrence and promoted as a fairly standard home invasion horror movie, it turned out to be a monumentally strange, shockingly intense and borderline insensible audio-visual assault, which - according to who you talk to - is a retelling of the Book of Genesis, an environmental allegory, a hard-hitting feminist parable, or a repulsive display of misogyny.

It was always a film that was going to inspire extreme reactions, and again this much was made clear by the poster art: an eerie image of Lawrence's unnamed protagonist holding out her freshly removed heart, against a picturesque floral backdrop that wouldn't look out of place on a Mother's Day card.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a less provocative poster showing Lawrence side by side with co-star Javier Bardem was more widely circulated around the multiplexes and bus stops.

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