Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010s]

1. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
3. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
4. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
5. Get Out — Jordan Peele
6. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
7. Okja — Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
9. A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
10. Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins

Other Favorites

• 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