Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2017
[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- The Death of Louis XIV — Albert Serra
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Tempestad — Tatiana Huezo
- Starless Dreams — Mehrdad Oskouei
- The Salesman — Asghar Farhadi
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Behemoth — Zhao Liang
- Song to Song — Terrence Malick
- The Ornithologist — João Pedro Rodrigues
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Slack Bay — Bruno Dumont
- In Transit — David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
- Columbus — Kogonada
- On the Beach at Night Alone — Hong Sang-soo
- Rat Film — Theo Anthony
- God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
- Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
- 4 Days in France — Jérôme Reybaud
- Hermia & Helena — Matías Piñeiro
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Son of Joseph — Eugène Green
- The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
- Paraguay Remembered — Dominique Dubosc
- Person to Person — Dustin Guy Defa
- I Called Him Morgan — Kasper Collin
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki — Juho Kuosmanen
- Mister Universo — Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
- The Human Surge — Eduardo Williams
- The Red Turtle — Michael Dudok de Wit
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo — Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- Wet Woman in the Wind — Akihiko Shiota
- Harmonium — Kôji Fukada