Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: 63 Best Films of 2017

• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• The Bad Batch
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker

First Tier Honorable Mentions

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Afterimage
  Andrzej Wajda
• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
  Errol Morris
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Colossal
  Nacho Vigalondo
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• Endless Poetry
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Félicité
  Alain Gomis
• Gerald’s Game
  Mike Flanagan
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Glory
  Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Happy End
  Michael Haneke
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• I, Olga Hepnarová
  Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• Porto
  Gabe Klinger
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• Logan
  James Mangold
• Long Strange Trip
  Amir Bar-Lev
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• The Lovers
  Azazel Jacobs
• Manifesto
  Julian Rosefeldt
• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Moka
  Frédéric Mermoud
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Suntan
  Argyris Papadimitropoulos
• The Unknown Girl
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Valerian
  Luc Besson
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan

Second Tier Honorable Mentions

• Alien: Covenant
  Ridley Scott
• Bang! The Bert Berns Story
  Brett Berns and Bob Sarles
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Free Fire
  Ben Wheatley
• The Glass Castle
  Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Hermia & Helena
  Matías Piñeiro
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  Griffin Dunne
• Maudie
  Aisling Walsh
• Slack Bay
  Bruno Dumont
• Wonder
  Stephen Chbosky

Conflicts of Interest

• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh