Year-End Lists

Les Inrockuptibles: Best Films of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
   Robin Campillo
2. Certain Women
   Kelly Reichardt
3. Wonderstruck
   Todd Haynes
4. Ismael’s Ghosts
   Arnaud Desplechin
5. Yourself and Yours
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
7. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
   Ang Lee
8. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
9. Barbara
   Mathieu Amalric
10. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
11. Logan
    James Mangold
12. Split
    M. Night Shyamalan
13. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
14. The House by the Sea
    Robert Guédiguian
15. The Day After
    Hong Sang-soo
16. Sayonara
    Kôji Fukada
17. The Edge of Seventeen
    Kelly Fremon Craig
18. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    Bruno Dumont
19. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
20. Sleeping Beauty
    Adolfo Arrieta

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Les Inrocks: Emily Barnett: Top 10 Films of 2017
• Les Inrocks: Marilou Duponchel: Top 10 Films of 2017
• Les Inrocks: Murielle Joudet: Top 10 Films of 2017

Roger Koza: Favorite Films of 2017, as submitted to the Otros Cines Survey

1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
3. The Impossible Picture
   Sandra Wollner
4. Good Manners
   Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas
5. Barbs, Wastelands
   Marta Mateus
6. Milla
   Valérie Massadian
6. Baronesa
   Juliana Antunes
7. Alanis
   Anahí Berneri
8. Drift
   Helena Wittmann
9. Luz Obscura
   Susana de Sousa Dias
10. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR

Ben Sachs: Favorite Films of 2017, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
2. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
3. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
   Joseph Cedar
4. That Most Important Thing: Love
   Andrzej Zulawski
5. Sixty Six
   Lewis Klahr
6. Dim the Fluorescents
   Daniel Warth
7. Nowhere to Hide
   Zaradasht Ahmed
8. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
9. Mimosas
   Oliver Laxe
10. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
11. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
12. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
13. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
14. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs
15. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
16. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
17. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
18. In Transit
    David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
19. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
20. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar
21. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
22. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
23. Frantz
    François Ozon
24. The Moderns
    Marcela Matta and Mauro Sarser
25. Get Out
    Jordan Peele

Honorable Mentions

• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• The Breadwinner
  Nora Twomey
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Félicité
  Alain Gomis
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Golden Years
  André Téchiné
• Last Flag Flying
  Richard Linklater
• Our Time Will Come
  Ann Hui
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas

J.R. Jones: The Best Films of 2017, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
2. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
3. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
4. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
   Joseph Cedar
7. Loving Vincent
   Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
8. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
9. The Red Turtle
   Michael Dudok de Wit
10. Death in the Terminal
    Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudri

Runners-up

11. The Square
    Jehane Noujaim
12. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
13. Last Men in Aleppo
    Firas Fayyad
14. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
15. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs
16. I, Daniel Blake
    Ken Loach
17. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
18. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
19. Obit
    Vanessa Gould
20. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd

Christopher Orr: Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Atlantic

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
4. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
5. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
6. Coco
   Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
7. mother!
   Darren Aronofsky
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
10. The Post
    Steven Spielberg

Honorable Mentions

• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• Battle of the Sexes
  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Darkest Hour
  Joe Wright
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• Hostiles
  Scott Cooper
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• Jane
  Brett Morgen
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Logan
  James Mangold
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
  Jon Watts
• Split
  M. Night Shyamalan
• The Square
  Ruben Östlund
• T2 Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle
• Thor: Ragnarok
  Taika Waititi
• Victoria & Abdul
  Stephen Frears
• War for the Planet of the Apes
  Matt Reeves
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins

Sasha Frere-Jones: Favorite Albums of 2017. Albums are organized into two tiers and listed chronologically within each.

[see also 2022 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

exceptional

• Cruel Optimism
  Lawrence English
• Alveare
  Andrea Belfi
• Die paste, die wrong
  Gerard Herman
• Targ
  Bargou 08
• Number 1 Angel
  Charli XCX
• Arca
  Arca
• AZD
  Actress
• For Organ and Brass
  Ellen Arkbro
• Jaap Vink
  Jaap Vink
• Grafts
  Kara-Lis Coverdale
• async
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
• No Shape
  Perfume Genius
• Haul Ass
  Road Hog
• La Perspectiva Racional
  Ex Continent
• Pancrace
  Pancrace
• Balsams
  Chuck Johnson
• Stack Music
  Konrad Sprenger
• Ctrl
  SZA
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Aster
  Kassel Jaeger
• Mnestic Pressure
  Lee Gamble
• Aromanticism
  Moses Sumney
• Gras H’utsi
  Bons
• Dubs
  Jay Glass Dubs
• Colón Man
  Equiknoxx

also good

• My Pharaoh, My King
  Anthony Pasquarosa with John Moloney
• Culture
  Migos
• Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 3
  The Caretaker
• Fin
  Syd
• Giraffe
  Simon Fisher Turner
• Volume Uno
  Stromboli
• NU LP For RS
  No UFO’s
• World Eater
  Blanck Mass
• 4 Oscillators & 130 Samples at 130 BPM
  D. Glare
• All My Circles Run
  Sarah Davachi
• And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies
  The Inward Circles
• Bloodroot
  Kelly Moran
• Shinsekai
  WaqWaq Kingdom
• The Basics
  Basic Rhythm
• Smoke Signals
  Overlook
• Samba
  Vieux Farka Touré
• Frequency is the New Ecstasy
  Teleplasmiste
• Variations
  Cloudface
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• Simultonality
  Joshua Abrams
• Unseen Forces
  Justin Walter
• Contact
  Harriet Brown
• All This I Do For Glory
  Colin Stetson
• Crop Circles
  Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson
• Sells His Record Collection
  Japan Blues
• Leaper
  Gosheven
• Empirical House
  Ricardo Villalobos
• Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  Nicole Mitchell
• Ore
  Andrea Belfi
• Impassable Fears
  Gravetemple
• Bells For the South Side
  Roscoe Mitchell
• The Shape of Things to Come
  Bill Converse
• Raft
  Mike Cooper
• Lust for Life
  Lana Del Rey
• Sacred Horror in Design
  Sote
• Lack
  Pan Daijing
• The Creeping Garden
  Jim O’Rourke
• FLD RCDR
  NYZ
• Colours of the Night
  Maalem Mahmoud Gania
• Hotel Record
  crys cole & Oren Ambarchi
• Gallarais
  Áine O’Dwyer
• Dulce Compañia
  Dj Python
• Live at Iklectik
  Philip Jeck
• Tommy
  Klein
• Sab Se Purani Bab
  SAICOBAB
• Sudan Archives
  Sudan Archives
• Naserii
  abu AMA
• A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound
  Roland Kayn
• Ahwar
  Nadah El Shazly
• BLUE LIPS (Lady Wood Phase II)
  Tove Lo
• Feng Shen
  Black Zone Myth Chant
• Mythologies
  Masaya Ozaki & Kaito Nakahori
• Perfect Lung
  Ceramic TL & Ipek Gorgun
• Special Forces
  Ahnnu
• Twisted Blood
  Lukid
• From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art
  Shinichi Atobe
• NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES
  N.E.R.D
• Hand In Hand
  Felicia Atkinson
• Water Memory
  Emily A. Sprague

Uproxx: 20 Best Movies of 2017

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

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
   Rian Johnson
6. Baby Driver
   Edgar Wright
7. Brigsby Bear
   Dave McCary
8. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
9. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
10. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
11. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
12. Casting JonBenet
    Kitty Green
13. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
14. Bodied
    Joseph Kahn
15. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
16. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
17. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
18. Brad’s Status
    Mike White
19. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
20. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro

Fact Magazine: 50 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. async
   Ryuichi Sakamoto
2. A flame my love, a frequency
   Colleen
3. Ctrl
   SZA
4. Dulce Compañia
   Dj Python
5. HNDRXX
   Future
6. Dust
   Laurel Halo
7. Common Sense
   J Hus
8. Before I Wake
   Kamaiyah
9. Superlative Fatigue
   Errorsmith
10. UKG
    TQD
11. Black Origami
    Jlin
12. Reassemblage
    Visible Cloaks
13. Sudan Archives
    Sudan Archives
14. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
15. Colón Man
    Equiknoxx
16. Plunge
    Fever Ray
17. Hesaitix
    MESH
18. 4:44
    JAY-Z
19. Rembo
    Karen Gwyer
20. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
21. SweetSexySavage
    Kehlani
22. It’s Good to Be Differ-Ent
    Differ-Ent
23. Culture
    Migos
24. Fantasii
    Mhysa
25. Playboi Carti
    Playboi Carti
26. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
27. Nídia É Má, Nídia É Fudida
    Nidia Minaj
28. Process
    Sampha
29. Weighing of the Heart
    Nabihah Iqbal
30. AZD
    Actress
31. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
32. Ambient Black Magic
    Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement
33. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
34. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
35. Patterns of Consciousness
    Caterina Barbieri
36. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
37. Symbolic Use of Light
    UMFANG
38. Experiencing the Deposit of Faith
    Yves Tumor
39. Black Ken
    Lil B
40. Utopia
    Björk
41. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
42. Mnestic Pressure
    Lee Gamble
43. Gulu City Anthems
    Otim Alpha
44. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
45. All Blue
    G Perico
46. The Gag File
    Aaron Dilloway
47. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
48. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
49. Screen Memories
    John Maus
50. Providence
    Nathan Fake

The A.V. Club: 20 Best Films of 2017

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. mother!
   Darren Aronofsky
8. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
9. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
10. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
11. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
12. Logan
    James Mangold
13. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
14. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
15. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
16. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
17. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
18. John Wick: Chapter 2
    Chad Stahelski
19. Staying Vertical
    Alain Guiraudie
20. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• A.V. Club: A.A. Dowd: Best Films of 2017
• A.V. Club: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: Best Films of 2017
• A.V. Club: Jesse Hassenger: Best Films of 2017
• A.V. Club: Katie Rife: Best Films of 2017
• A.V. Club: Mike D’Angelo: Best Films of 2017
• A.V. Club: Noel Murray: Best Films of 2017

Jordan Cronk: Favorite Albums of 2017, as posted to Twitter

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
2. Reassemblage
   Visible Cloaks
3. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
6. Black Origami
   Jlin
7. Out in the Storm
   Waxahatchee
8. Reaching For Indigo
   Circuit Des Yeux
9. Utopia
   Björk
10. Mono No Aware
    various artists
11. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
12. Arca
    Arca
13. Narkopop
    Gas
14. Dust
    Laurel Halo
15. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
16. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
17. Plunge
    Fever Ray
18. Contact
    Harriet Brown
19. Dedicated To Bobby Jameson
    Ariel Pink
20. Cigarettes After Sex
    Cigarettes After Sex
21. Life Without Sound
    Cloud Nothings
22. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
23. Modern Species
    DJ Sports
24. Compassion
    Forest Swords
25. A flame my love, a frequency
    Colleen
26. Stack Music
    Konrad Sprenger
27. Collection
    Soccer Mommy
28. Yaeji
    yaeji
28. EP2
    yaeji
29. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
30. New Energy
    Four Tet