Todd McCarthy: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Hollywood Reporter
- Downsizing — Alexander Payne
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- My Journey Through French Cinema — Bertrand Tavernier
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Graduation — Cristian Mungiu
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
- The Post — Steven Spielberg
- War for the Planet of the Apes — Matt Reeves
- Logan Lucky — Steven Soderbergh
- T2 Trainspotting — Danny Boyle
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer — Joseph Cedar
- Columbus — Kogonada
- Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) — Noah Baumbach
- The Disaster Artist — James Franco