Justin Chang: 32 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- Columbus — Kogonada
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 — S. Craig Zahler
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
- War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- 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