Matthew Jacobs: 27 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Huffington Post
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Okja — Bong Joon-ho
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
- The Beguiled — Sofia Coppola
- A Fantastic Woman — Sebastián Lelio
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi — Rian Johnson
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- The Big Sick — Michael Showalter
- The Disaster Artist — James Franco
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Colossal — Nacho Vigalondo
- Girls Trip — Malcolm D. Lee
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Kedi — Ceyda Torun
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- The Lovers — Azazel Jacobs
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- Mudbound — Dee Rees