Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
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2017 Movies

Justine Smith: 30 Favorite Films of 2017

31 December 2017

Thelma - Joachim Trier

Justine Smith: 30 Favorite Films of 2017, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2019 • 2018]

  1. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
  2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  3. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  4. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  5. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
  6. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
  7. Bad Genius
    Nattawut Poonpiriya
  8. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  9. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
  10. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  11. In the Intense Now
    João Moreira Salles
  12. John Wick: Chapter 2
    Chad Stahelski
  13. The Wild Boys
    Bertrand Mandico
  14. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    Bruno Dumont
  15. Maison du bonheur
    Sofia Bohdanowicz
  16. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
    Angela Robinson
  17. The First Lap
    Kim Dae-hwan
  18. Novitiate
    Margaret Betts
  19. Spell Reel
    Filipa César
  20. Dragonfly Eyes
    Xu Bing
  21. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
    Travis Wilkerson
  22. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
  23. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
  24. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
  25. Les Dépossédés
    Mathieu Roy
  26. Thor: Ragnarok
    Taika Waititi
  27. Fake Tattoos
    Pascal Plante
  28. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
  29. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
  30. Claire’s Camera
    Hong Sang-soo

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