Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

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1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
4. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins

Other Favorites

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Escapes
  Michael Almereyda
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
  Chris Smith
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Patti Cake$
  Geremy Jasper
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Tonsler Park
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2017

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1. Melodrama
   Lorde
2. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
3. Nothing Feels Natural
   Priests
4. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
5. Ctrl
   SZA
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. Guppy
   Charly Bliss
8. Out in the Storm
   Waxahatchee
9. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
10. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
11. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. Plunge
    Fever Ray
13. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
14. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
15. Slowdive
    Slowdive
16. You’re Not As _____ As You Think
    Sorority Noise
17. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
18. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
19. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
20. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
21. Rocket
    (Sandy) Alex G
22. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
23. Everybody Works
    Jay Som
24. Reflections of a Floating World
    Elder
25. Heartless
    Pallbearer
26. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
27. Tourist in This Town
    Allison Crutchfield
28. Utopia
    Björk
29. You’re Not You Anymore
    Counterparts
30. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
31. Antisocialites
    Alvvays
32. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
33. Culture
    Migos
34. Thousand Mile Stare
    Incendiary
35. Thx
    Lomelda
36. Powerplant
    girlpool
37. After Laughter
    Paramore
38. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
39. White Halo
    Heaven In Her Arms
40. Pleasure
    Feist
41. The Iceberg
    Oddisee
42. RARE
    Hundredth
43. Okovi
    Zola Jesus
44. Black Origami
    Jlin
45. GT Ultra
    Guerilla Toss
46. The Hanged Man
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
47. Drunk
    Thundercat
48. Rosebudd’s Revenge
    Roc Marciano
49. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
50. 4:44
    JAY-Z

American Songwriter: Top 25 Albums of 2017

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1. All American Made
   Margo Price
2. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
3. Wrangled
   Angaleena Presley
4. Soul of a Woman
   Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
5. UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
   J.D. McPherson
6. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
7. Carry Fire
   Robert Plant
8. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
9. Freedom Highway
   Rhiannon Giddens
10. DAMN.
    Kendrick Lamar
11. american dream
    LCD Soundsystem
12. Big Bad Luv
    John Moreland
13. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
14. The Navigator
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
15. The Underside of Power
    Algiers
16. So You Wannabe an Outlaw
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
17. Spades and Roses
    Caroline Spence
18. Heavy Meta
    Ron Gallo
19. Goodnight Rhonda Lee
    Nicole Atkins
20. Wonderful Wonderful
    The Killers
21. The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
    Lee Ann Womack
22. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
23. Puxico
    Natalie Hemby
24. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
25. Canyons of my Mind
    Andrew Combs

O, The Oprah Magazine: 11 Favorite Books of 2017

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Sour Heart
  Jenny Zhang
• Exit West
  Mohsin Hamid
• Goodbye, Vitamin
  Rachel Khong
• The Leavers
  Lisa Ko
• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
  Masha Gessen
• Her Body and Other Parties
  Carmen Maria Machado
• There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
  Morgan Parker
• Future Home of the Living God
  Louise Erdrich
• The Hate U Give
  Angie Thomas

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2017

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1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
3. Certain Women
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. The Day After
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Lover for a Day
   Philippe Garrel
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Split
   M. Night Shyamalan
9. Jackie
   Pablo Larraín
10. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
    Ang Lee

Revolver Magazine: 20 Best Albums of 2017

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1. Forever
   Code Orange
2. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
3. Emperor of Sand
   Mastodon
4. Hiss Spun
   Chelsea Wolfe
5. The Dusk In Us
   Converge
6. Post Self
   Godflesh
7. Modern Ruin
   Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
8. Mass VI
   Amenra
9. Motherblood
   Grave Pleasures
10. Soul Structure
    Higher Power
11. Obituary
    Obituary
12. Heatwave
    Trapped Under Ice
13. Trumpeting Ecstasy
    Full of Hell
14. Kingdoms Disdained
    Morbid Angel
15. Howling, For The Nightmare Shall Consume
    Integrity
16. Dead Cross
    Dead Cross
17. The Grand Annihilation
    Tombs
18. Blood Offerings
    Necrot
19. Wick
    Royal Thunder
20. Red
    Scour

Matt Zoller Seitz: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

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1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Leftovers
3. Better Things
4. The Get Down
5. BoJack Horseman
6. The Deuce
7. The Young Pope
8. Samurai Jack
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
10. The Carmichael Show

Megan O’Grady: 10 Best Books of 2017, as published by Vogue

• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jesmyn Ward
• What We Lose
  Zinzi Clemmons
• Go, Went, Gone
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• The Dawn Watch

  Joseph Conrad in a Global World
  Maya Jasanoff
• The Burning Girl
  Claire Messud
• The Rules Do Not Apply
  Ariel Levy
• The Idiot
  Elif Batuman
• Conversations with Friends
  Sally Rooney
• The Answers
  Catherine Lacey

David Edelstein: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
6. Marjorie Prime
   Michael Almereyda
7. Nowhere to Hide
   Zaradasht Ahmed
8. Valerian
   Luc Besson
9. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
   Robin Campillo
10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2017

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• Hourglass

  Time, Memory, Marriage
  Dani Shapiro
• On Tyranny

  Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  Timothy Snyder
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann
• World Without Mind

  The Existential Threat of Big Tech
  Franklin Foer
• Surpassing Certainty

  What My Twenties Taught Me
  Janet Mock
• Tell Me How It Ends

  An Essay in 40 Questions
  Valeria Luiselli