Dave Clennon

The last time I saw Cicely Tyson -- she was riveting in a poignant scene near the end of "Last Flag Flying." She played the elderly mother who had lost her son in Vietnam. She sits in her apartment with three surviving veterans, played by Lawrence Fishburn, Steve Carrel and Bryan Cranston (all excellent). These vets know the war was fruitless and (maybe?) criminal, but they don't know what to tell her when they realize how desperately this fragile woman wants to believe that her son didn't die for nothing in Vietnam. Aside from giving us one of Tyson's last performances, this film is beautiful and important. I really like Spike Lee, but "Last Flag Flying" is head and shoulders above "Da 5 Bloods." I don't know why this film didn't get the recognition it deserved, in 2017. It's also vastly superior to "The Trial of the Chicago Seven." Skip those two, see this.