Nick Schager: Best Movies of 2017, as published by Esquire
[see also 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Wormwood — Errol Morris
- Lady Macbeth — William Oldroyd
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Columbus — Kogonada
- I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore — Macon Blair
- Okja — Bong Joon-ho
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- I Called Him Morgan — Kasper Collin
- The Blackcoat’s Daughter — Oz Perkins
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Lucky — John Carroll Lynch
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Atomic Blonde — David Leitch
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Super Dark Times — Kevin Phillips
- Alien: Covenant — Ridley Scott
- City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman
- Thelma — Joachim Trier
- Icaros: A Vision — Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi
- The Lure — Agnieszka Smoczynska
- 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