Year-End Lists

Joanna Di Mattia: Favorite Films of 2017, as posted to Twitter and submitted to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll.

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. 20th Century Women
   Mike Mills
3. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
4. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
8. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
9. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
10. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
11. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
14. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
15. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
16. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
17. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
18. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
19. Their Finest
    Lone Scherfig
20. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd

Honourable mentions (in alphabetical order by original-language title)

1. The Beguiled
   Sofia Coppola
2. Frantz
   François Ozon
3. God’s Own Country
   Francis Lee
4. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
5. The Party
   Sally Potter
6. A Fantastic Woman
   Sebastián Lelio

Alicia Malone: Top 50 Films of 2017, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2018]

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
4. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
   Yorgos Lanthimos
5. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
6. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
7. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
8. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
9. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
10. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
11. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
12. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
13. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
14. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
15. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
16. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
17. A Fantastic Woman
    Sebastián Lelio
18. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
19. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
20. Flesh and Blood
    Mark Webber
21. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
22. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
23. Columbus
    Kogonada
24. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
25. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
26. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
27. Molly’s Game
    Aaron Sorkin
28. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
29. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
    Paul McGuigan
30. Happy End
    Michael Haneke
31. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
32. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
33. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
34. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
35. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
36. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska
37. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
38. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
39. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
40. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch
41. Step
    Amanda Lipitz
42. Menashe
    Joshua Z Weinstein
43. Wind River
    Taylor Sheridan
44. Oh Lucy!
    Atsuko Hirayanagi
45. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
46. Hounds of Love
    Ben Young
47. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
48. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
49. Lemon
    Janicza Bravo
50. Patti Cake$
    Geremy Jasper

gal-dem: The Five Best Books of 2017 by Women of Color

1. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
   Reni Eddo-Lodge
2. Pachinko
   Min Jin Lee
3. Your Silence Will Not Protect You
   Audre Lorde
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
5. Peluda
   Melissa Lozada-Oliva

Scott Feinberg: Top Ten Films of 2017 (as posted on Twitter)

1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
3. Icarus
   Bryan Fogel
4. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
5. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
   John Ridley
7. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
8. In the Fade
   Fatih Akin
9. Molly’s Game
   Aaron Sorkin
10. Spoor
    Agnieszka Holland

Peter Debruge: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Variety

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Distinguished Citizen
   Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
6. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
9. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
10. Lost in Paris
    Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon

Other exceptional movies

• Brigsby Bear
  Dave McCary
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Heal the Living
  Katell Quillévéré
• Lady Macbeth
  William Oldroyd
• Land of Mine
  Martin Zandvliet
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Sweet Virginia
  Jamie M. Dagg

Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2017, as aired on The Needle Drop

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Pure Comedy
   Father John Misty
2. SATURATION II
   BROCKHAMPTON
3. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
4. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
   Big K.R.I.T.
5. Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
   Sun Kil Moon
6. Mouth Moods
   Neil Cicierega
7. Bravado
   Kirin J Callinan
8. Los Ángeles
   Rosalía
9. The Underside of Power
   Algiers
10. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
11. Thin Black Duke
    Oxbow
12. Forced Witness
    Alex Cameron
13. Forget
    Xiu Xiu
14. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
15. Neō Wax Bloom
    Iglooghost
16. Ctrl
    SZA
17. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
    Open Mike Eagle
18. Soul of a Woman
    Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
19. Peasant
    Richard Dawson
20. Orc
    Oh Sees
21. Goths
    The Mountain Goats
22. 4:44
    JAY-Z
23. Known Unknowns
    Billy Woods
24. Written at Night
    Uncommon Nasa
25. Caustic
    Primitive Man
26. Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
    Quelle Chris
27. GT Ultra
    Guerilla Toss
28. Flying Microtonal Banana
    King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
29. Uyai
    Ibibio Sound Machine
30. 1992
    Princess Nokia
31. Brutalism
    Idles
32. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
33. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
34. Godfather
    Wiley
35. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
36. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
37. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
38. Forever
    Code Orange
39. Pleasure
    Feist
40. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
41. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
42. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
43. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
44. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
45. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
46. Process
    Sampha
47. Heartless
    Pallbearer
48. Wrong One to Fuck With
    Dying Fetus
49. Outrage! Is Now
    Death from Above
50. First Opus
    Sinjin Hawke

Karina Longworth: Favorite Movies of 2017 (as posted on Twitter, “some movies I saw and liked this year”)

[see also 2018 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Molly’s Game
  Aaron Sorkin

David Orr: Best Poetry of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons
  A.R. Ammons
• The Essential W.S. Merwin
  W.S. Merwin
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott
• So Where Are We?
  Lawrence Joseph
• Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog

  Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems
  August Kleinzahler
• Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment
  Alessandra Lynch
• Sun in Days
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Witch Wife
  Kiki Petrosino
• Fiends Fell
  Tom Pickard
• The Trembling Answers
  Craig Morgan Teicher
• Phrasis
  Wendy Xu

Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
6. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
7. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
8. Pleasure
   Feist
9. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
10. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
11. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
12. SATURATION
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. SATURATION III
    BROCKHAMPTON
13. Capacity
    Big Thief
14. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
15. Life After Youth
    Land of Talk
16. Party
    Aldous Harding
17. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
18. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
19. Smidley
    Smidley
20. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
21. Plunge
    Fever Ray
22. Melodrama
    Lorde
23. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
24. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
25. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
26. Process
    Sampha
27. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
28. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
29. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
30. Yaeji
    yaeji
30. EP2
    yaeji
31. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
32. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
33. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
34. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
34. From A Room: Volume 2
    Chris Stapleton
35. The OOZ
    King Krule
36. Prince of Tears
    Baxter Dury
37. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
38. After Laughter
    Paramore
39. Preservation
    Nadia Reid
40. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
41. Fin
    Syd
42. Utopia
    Björk
43. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
44. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
45. Packs
    Your Old Droog
46. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
47. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
    Big K.R.I.T.
48. Apocalipstick
    Cherry Glazerr
49. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
50. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey

Tasha Robinson: 15 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Verge

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Brigsby Bear
  Dave McCary
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mary and the Witch’s Flower
  Hiromasa Yonebayashi
• The Breadwinner
  Nora Twomey
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• The Red Turtle
  Michael Dudok de Wit