Year-End Lists

Peter Debruge: 10 Best Films of 2017, as published by Variety

1. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Distinguished Citizen
   Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
6. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
9. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
10. Lost in Paris
    Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon

Other exceptional movies

• Brigsby Bear
  Dave McCary
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Heal the Living
  Katell Quillévéré
• Lady Macbeth
  William Oldroyd
• Land of Mine
  Martin Zandvliet
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Sweet Virginia
  Jamie M. Dagg