Year-End Lists

Stephanie Zacharek: Top 10 Movies of 2017, as published by Time Magazine

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1. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
4. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
5. Kedi
   Ceyda Torun
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
8. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee

Honorable Mentions

• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• My Life as a Zucchini
  Claude Barras
• California Typewriter
  Doug Nichol
• John Wick: Chapter 2
  Chad Stahelski
• The Little Hours
  Jeff Baena
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
  Michael Roberts

Ed Gonzalez: Top 30 Movies of 2017 (as posted on Twitter)

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. The Salesman
   Asghar Farhadi
3. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
4. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
5. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
6. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
7. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
8. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
10. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman

20 Next in Line

• 4 Days in France
  Jérôme Reybaud
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Harmonium
  Kôji Fukada
• In Transit
  David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Starless Dreams
  Mehrdad Oskouei
• Tempestad
  Tatiana Huezo
• War for the Planet of the Apes
  Matt Reeves
• The Work
  Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous

Pretty Much Amazing: 20 Best Albums of 2017

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

1. Melodrama
   Lorde
2. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
3. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
4. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
5. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. I See You
   The xx
8. Ctrl
   SZA
9. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
10. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
11. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
12. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
13. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
14. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
15. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
16. Slowdive
    Slowdive
17. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
18. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
19. Arca
    Arca
20. Everybody Works
    Jay Som

K. Austin Collins: 24 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Ringer

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

1. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
1. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
2. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
5. Beach Rats
   Eliza Hittman
6. Song to Song
   Terrence Malick
7. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. Columbus
    Kogonada

Honorable Mentions

• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Dark Night
  Tim Sutton
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• John Wick: Chapter 2
  Chad Stahelski
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes
• Your Name
  Makoto Shinkai

Rob Harvilla: 10 Best Albums of 2017, as published by The Ringer

1. 4:44
   JAY-Z
2. Melodrama
   Lorde
3. Antisocialites
   Alvvays
4. Hot Thoughts
   Spoon
5. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
8. All American Made
   Margo Price
9. Guppy
   Charly Bliss
10. Pleasure
    Feist

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

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1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
3. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
4. What Now
   Sylvan Esso
5. Ctrl
   SZA
6. Nothing Feels Natural
   Priests
7. Plunge
   Fever Ray
8. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
9. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
10. Out in the Storm
    Waxahatchee
11. A Hairshirt of Purpose
    Pile
12. Process
    Sampha
13. Mirror Reaper
    Bell Witch
14. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
15. Utopia
    Björk
16. Guppy
    Charly Bliss
17. Melodrama
    Lorde
18. V
    The Horrors
19. You Can’t Stay Here
    Iron Chic
20. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem

IndieWire: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

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1. The Leftovers
2. Better Things
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. The Handmaid’s Tale
5. BoJack Horseman
6. Dear White People
7. Halt and Catch Fire
8. Better Call Saul
9. Master of None
10. American Vandal

Ann Hornaday: 12 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Washington Post. Her article highlights a number of other favorites, too, “honorables duly mentioned”.

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
4. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
8. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
9. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
10. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
10. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
10. Their Finest
    Lone Scherfig

Craig Jenkins: 11 Best Albums of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Slowdive
   Slowdive
3. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
4. 50 Song Memoir
   The Magnetic Fields
5. If All I Was Was Black
   Mavis Staples
6. From A Room: Volume 1
   Chris Stapleton
6. From A Room: Volume 1
   Chris Stapleton
7. Take Me Apart
   Kelela
8. Melodrama
   Lorde
9. Process
   Sampha
10. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene

Christian Science Monitor: 30 Best Books of 2017

[see also 2018]

Fiction

• Dark at the Crossing
  Elliot Ackerman
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Hate U Give
  Angie Thomas
• Strange the Dreamer
  Laini Taylor
• The Golden Legend
  Nadeem Aslam
• The Leavers
  Lisa Ko
• Salt Houses
  Hala Alyan
• The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories
  Penelope Lively
• Anything Is Possible
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Essex Serpent
  Sarah Perry
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
  Arundhati Roy
• Glass Houses
  Louise Penny
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction

• The New Odyssey

  The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
  Patrick Kingsley
• The Souls of China

  The Return of Religion After Mao
  Ian Johnson
• Thunder in the Mountains

  Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
  Daniel J. Sharfstein
• I Was Told to Come Alone

  My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
  Souad Mekhennet
• Hue 1968

  A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
  Mark Bowden
• Sea Power

  The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
  James Stavridis
• Be Free or Die

  The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
  Cate Lineberry
• Reading with Patrick

  A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
  Michelle Kuo
• Henry David Thoreau

  A Life
  Laura Dassow Walls
• An Odyssey

  A Father, a Son, and an Epic
  Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Code Girls

  The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
  Liza Mundy
• The Gourmands’ Way

  Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
  Justin Spring
• Stanton

  Lincoln’s War Secretary
  Walter Stahr
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• Lenin

  The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
  Victor Sebestyen
• Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940
  Jed Perl