Kenneth Turan: Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times
Turan has organized the films into thematic categories (“exciters,” “canny veterans,” etc.), and in each one he lists a couple of favorites and an honorable mention. The films are listed below, but see his write-up for the proper structure.
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- My Journey Through French Cinema — Bertrand Tavernier
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki — Juho Kuosmanen
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- Walking Out — Alex & Andrew Smith
- Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer — Joseph Cedar
- One Week and a Day — Asaph Polonsky
- Hostiles — Scott Cooper
- Wind River — Taylor Sheridan
- The Ballad of Lefty Brown — Jared Moshe
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh