Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: 32 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2019, 2018, 2016]

1. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
2. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
3. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
4. mother! — Darren Aronofsky
5. Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
6. Columbus — Kogonada
7. A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
8. Brawl in Cell Block 99 — S. Craig Zahler
9. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
10. Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
11. War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
12. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan

Plus 20 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• After the Storm — Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
• Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
• Detroit — Kathryn Bigelow
• Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
• Get Out — Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story — David Lowery
• Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
• God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
• Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
• The Lost City of Z — James Gray
• Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Mudbound — Dee Rees
• Raw — Julia Ducournau
• Son of Joseph — Eugène Green
• Song to Song — Terrence Malick
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
• Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
• The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous