Year-End Lists

Mark Olsen: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2018]

1. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
2. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
3. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
   Noah Baumbach
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
9. The Disaster Artist
   James Franco
10. The Square
    Ruben Östlund

And another 10 that could easily have been slotted in somewhere (alphabetical)

• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• Ingrid Goes West
  Matt Spicer
• Logan
  James Mangold
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Nocturama
  Bertrand Bonello
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson