Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Okja — Bong Joon-ho
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
- After the Storm — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Alexandra Dean
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Challenge — Yuri Ancarani
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- The Death of Louis XIV — Albert Serra
- Escapes — Michael Almereyda
- Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki — Juho Kuosmanen
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton — Chris Smith
- Kedi — Ceyda Torun
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- My Journey Through French Cinema — Bertrand Tavernier
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer — Joseph Cedar
- The Ornithologist — João Pedro Rodrigues
- Patti Cake$ — Geremy Jasper
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- Professor Marston and the Wonder Women — Angela Robinson
- Quest — Jonathan Olshefski
- Song to Song — Terrence Malick
- Tonsler Park — Kevin Jerome Everson
- Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
- The Woman Who Left — Lav Diaz
- Wonderstruck — Todd Haynes