Justine Smith: 30 Favorite Films of 2017, as posted to Letterboxd
[see also 2018]
- Thelma — Joachim Trier
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
- Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Bad Genius — Nattawut Poonpiriya
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Western — Valeska Grisebach
- In the Intense Now — João Moreira Salles
- John Wick: Chapter 2 — Chad Stahelski
- The Wild Boys — Bertrand Mandico
- Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc — Bruno Dumont
- Maison du bonheur — Sofia Bohdanowicz
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women — Angela Robinson
- The First Lap — Kim Dae-hwan
- Novitiate — Margaret Betts
- Spell Reel — Filipa César
- Dragonfly Eyes — Xu Bing
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? — Travis Wilkerson
- Let the Sunshine In — Claire Denis
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- The Rider — Chloé Zhao
- Les Dépossédés — Mathieu Roy
- Thor: Ragnarok — Taika Waititi
- Fake Tattoos — Pascal Plante
- Song to Song — Terrence Malick
- I, Tonya — Craig Gillespie
- Claire’s Camera — Hong Sang-soo