Year-End Lists

Mark Olsen: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2018]

1. Mudbound — Dee Rees
2. The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
3. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
4. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
6. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
7. Okja — Bong Joon-ho
8. Get Out — Jordan Peele
9. The Disaster Artist — James Franco
10. The Square — Ruben Östlund

And another 10 that could easily have been slotted in somewhere (alphabetical)

• The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
• Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
• Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
• I, Tonya — Craig Gillespie
• Ingrid Goes West — Matt Spicer
• Logan — James Mangold
• The Lost City of Z — James Gray
• Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
• Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson