Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 50 Top Films of 2017 (of US releases)

[see also 2015]

1. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
2. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
3. Get Out — Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
6. The Post — Steven Spielberg
7. The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
8. Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
9. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
10. Lady Macbeth — William Oldroyd
11. mother! — Darren Aronofsky
12. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
13. God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
14. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
15. Raw — Julia Ducournau
16. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
17. Heal the Living — Katell Quillévéré
18. Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
19. I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
20. The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
21. Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
22. The Lost City of Z — James Gray
23. BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
24. Mudbound — Dee Rees
25. I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
26. War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
27. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
28. Detroit — Kathryn Bigelow
29. T2 Trainspotting — Danny Boyle
30. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
31. The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
32. The Square — Ruben Östlund
33. Logan — James Mangold
34. Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
35. Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
36. Baby Driver — Edgar Wright
37. Strong Island — Yance Ford
38. Colossal — Nacho Vigalondo
39. The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
40. The Disaster Artist — James Franco
41. Beatriz at Dinner — Miguel Arteta
42. The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
43. A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
44. My Cousin Rachel — Roger Michell
45. Menashe — Joshua Z Weinstein
46. The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi
47. Ingrid Goes West — Matt Spicer
48. Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
49. Stronger — David Gordon Green
50. Molly’s Game — Aaron Sorkin