Year-End Lists

Ben Kenigsberg: Best Films of 2017, as submitted to the RogerEbert.com Survey

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

Honorary top spot

• Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch

Then…

1. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
3. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
4. In Transit — David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
5. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Wormwood — Errol Morris
7. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
8. mother! — Darren Aronofsky
9. Columbus — Kogonada
10. Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello

Some others

• 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