The Guardian: 50 Top Films of 2017 (of US releases)
[see also 2015]
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- Lady Macbeth — William Oldroyd
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- Raw — Julia Ducournau
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Heal the Living — Katell Quillévéré
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
- War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
- Detroit — Kathryn Bigelow
- T2 Trainspotting — Danny Boyle
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Logan — James Mangold
- Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
- Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
- Baby Driver — Edgar Wright
- Strong Island — Yance Ford
- Colossal — Nacho Vigalondo
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- The Disaster Artist — James Franco
- Beatriz at Dinner — Miguel Arteta
- The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- My Cousin Rachel — Roger Michell
- Menashe — Joshua Z Weinstein
- The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi
- Ingrid Goes West — Matt Spicer
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Stronger — David Gordon Green
- Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin