Year-End Lists

Ben Sachs: Favorite Films of 2017, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
2. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
3. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
   Joseph Cedar
4. That Most Important Thing: Love
   Andrzej Zulawski
5. Sixty Six
   Lewis Klahr
6. Dim the Fluorescents
   Daniel Warth
7. Nowhere to Hide
   Zaradasht Ahmed
8. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
9. Mimosas
   Oliver Laxe
10. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
11. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
12. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
13. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
14. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs
15. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
16. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
17. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
18. In Transit
    David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
19. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
20. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar
21. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
22. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
23. Frantz
    François Ozon
24. The Moderns
    Marcela Matta and Mauro Sarser
25. Get Out
    Jordan Peele

Honorable Mentions

• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• The Breadwinner
  Nora Twomey
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Félicité
  Alain Gomis
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Golden Years
  André Téchiné
• Last Flag Flying
  Richard Linklater
• Our Time Will Come
  Ann Hui
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas