Michael Sicinski: Top 25 Films of 2017 (limited to commercial releases)
[see also Top 50 Films of 2018, Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018, Top 10 Films of 2016, Top 12 Films of 2014, Top 10 Films of 2013, Top 12 Films of 2012]
- On the Beach at Night Alone — Hong Sang-soo
- Staying Vertical — Alain Guiraudie
- Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Wormwood — Errol Morris
- Strong Island — Yance Ford
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- Félicité — Alain Gomis
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- Mimosas — Oliver Laxe
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- The Death of Louis XIV — Albert Serra
- The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 — S. Craig Zahler
- Jane — Brett Morgen
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- Ma — Celia Rowlson-Hall
- All This Panic — Jenny Gage
- Son of Joseph — Eugène Green
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Lipstick Under My Burkha — Alankrita Shrivastava