Ben Kenigsberg: Best Films of 2017, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey
[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
Honorary top spot
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- In Transit — David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Wormwood — Errol Morris
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Columbus — Kogonada
- Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
Then…
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Death of Louis XIV — Albert Serra
- It Happened in L.A. — Michelle Morgan
- Jane — Brett Morgen
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer — Joseph Cedar
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- Quest — Jonathan Olshefski
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Rat Film — Theo Anthony
- The Settlers — Shimon Dotan
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- The Unknown Girl — Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
- The Wedding Plan — Rama Burshtein
- Wonderstruck — Todd Haynes