Year-End Lists

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2017 Movies

New Yorker: Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2017

08 December 2017

Get Out - Jordan Peele

Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New Yorker

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  1. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
  2. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
  3. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  4. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
  5. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
  6. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  7. Beach Rats
    Eliza Hittman
  8. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
  9. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
  10. Silvio
    Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
  11. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
  12. Columbus
    Kogonada
  13. Hermia & Helena
    Matías Piñeiro
  14. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
  15. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
  16. Strong Island
    Yance Ford
  17. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
  18. Son of Joseph
    Eugène Green
  19. Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
  20. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
    Errol Morris
  21. Félicité
    Alain Gomis
  22. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
  23. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
  24. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
  25. The Unknown Girl
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
  26. Actor Martinez
    Mike Ott and Nathan Silver
  27. Whose Streets?
    Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
  28. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
  29. Planetarium
    Rebecca Zlotowski
  30. Marshall
    Reginald Hudlin
  31. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
  32. Icaros: A Vision
    Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi
  33. Mimosas
    Oliver Laxe
  34. Wait for Your Laugh
    Jason Wise
  35. The Rape of Recy Taylor
    Nancy Buirski

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