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Chicago Reader: J.R. Jones: The Best Films of 2017

20 December 2017

The Lost City of Z - James Gray

J.R. Jones: The Best Films of 2017, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
  2. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
  3. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  4. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
  5. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
  6. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Joseph Cedar
  7. Loving Vincent
    Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
  8. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
  9. The Red Turtle
    Michael Dudok de Wit
  10. Death in the Terminal
    Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudri

Runners-up

  1. The Square
    Jehane Noujaim
  2. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
  3. Last Men in Aleppo
    Firas Fayyad
  4. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
  5. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs
  6. I, Daniel Blake
    Ken Loach
  7. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
  8. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
  9. Obit
    Vanessa Gould
  10. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd

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