{"id":1395350,"date":"2016-12-30T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1395350"},"modified":"2016-12-30T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:04:16","slug":"the-10-best-and-worst-movies-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-10-best-and-worst-movies-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best and Worst Movies of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/2016bestworstmoviessMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We saw a lot of movies this year. Some of them were good, some of them were bad, and some of them were <em>Swiss Army Man<\/em>, which I&#8217;m still not entirely sure about. But I&#8217;m not here to talk about the <em>Swiss Army Man<\/em>s of 2016, those middling cinematic enigmas\u2014I&#8217;m here to talk about the <em>Moana<\/em>s and the <em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em>s. \u00a0You know, the movies we either loved or hated. The movies we could all agree on. The movies that had us all saying, &#8220;Hey, that movie was objectively pretty good!&#8221; or &#8220;Hey, that movie was a waste of precious \u00a0life seconds!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are those movies. I&#8217;ve assembled five of the best and five of the worst, in no particular order. If you disagree with anything on this list, I&#8217;m sorry. But the selection process was incredibly scientific (which is to say I saw these movies, had thoughts about them, and decided to slap a slideshow together), so I don&#8217;t know what to tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw a lot of movies this year. Some of them were good, some of them were bad, and some of them were Swiss Army Man, which I&#8217;m still not entirely sure about. But I&#8217;m   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[21379,23415,23414,23418,23417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395350"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}