IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2017 (as voted by more than 200 critics)
The poll also has separate listings for undistributed films, foreign language films, and documentaries.
[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- I, Tonya — Craig Gillespie
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- Baby Driver — Edgar Wright
- Columbus — Kogonada
- The Disaster Artist — James Franco
- The Death of Louis XIV — Albert Serra
- Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- Raw — Julia Ducournau
- Okja — Bong Joon-ho
- Song to Song — Terrence Malick
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
- Logan — James Mangold
- Menashe — Joshua Z Weinstein
- Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
- Coco — Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
- Wind River — Taylor Sheridan
- The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
- Beatriz at Dinner — Miguel Arteta
- Kedi — Ceyda Torun
- War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
- Hostiles — Scott Cooper
- After the Storm — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Your Name — Makoto Shinkai
- Princess Cyd — Stephen Cone
- Split — M. Night Shyamalan
- Darkest Hour — Joe Wright
- Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
- It — Andy Muschietti
- Beach Rats — Eliza Hittman
- It Comes at Night — Trey Edward Shults
- Battle of the Sexes — Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
- Colossal — Nacho Vigalondo
- I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore — Macon Blair
- Step — Amanda Lipitz
- Ingrid Goes West — Matt Spicer