Alissa Wilkinson: 35 Best Films of 2017, as published by Vox
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Princess Cyd — Stephen Cone
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Columbus — Kogonada
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Rat Film — Theo Anthony
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Lady Macbeth — William Oldroyd
- Ingrid Goes West — Matt Spicer
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Casting JonBenet — Kitty Green
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
- I, Tonya — Craig Gillespie
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
- Spettacolo — Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
- Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan — Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger
- In Transit — David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
- The Reagan Show — Sierra Pettengill and Pacho Velez