Year-End Lists

Nick Schager: Best Movies of 2017, as published by Esquire

[see also 2018 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Wormwood
   Errol Morris
2. Lady Macbeth
   William Oldroyd
3. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
4. Marjorie Prime
   Michael Almereyda
5. Columbus
   Kogonada
6. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
   Macon Blair
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
10. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
11. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
    Oz Perkins
12. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
13. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
14. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
15. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
16. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch
17. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
18. Atomic Blonde
    David Leitch
19. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
20. Super Dark Times
    Kevin Phillips
21. Alien: Covenant
    Ridley Scott
22. City of Ghosts
    Matthew Heineman
23. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
24. Icaros: A Vision
    Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi
25. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska

Honorable Mention

• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Hounds of Love
  Ben Young
• The Villainess
  Jung Byung-gil
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Stronger
  David Gordon Green
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright