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

Robert Koehler: Best Movies of 2017

03 January 2018

Twin Peaks: The Return - David Lynch

Robert Koehler: Best Movies of 2017 (as posted to Twitter in a series of tweets starting here and ending here)

[see also 2019 • 2012]

  1. Twin Peaks: The Return
    David Lynch
  2. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
  3. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
  4. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  5. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  6. The Wandering Soap Opera
    Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
  7. Three Quarters
    Ilian Metev
  8. Good Luck
    Ben Russell
  9. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    S. Craig Zahler
  10. PROTOTYPE
    Blake Williams
  11. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  12. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
  13. Purge This Land
    Lee Anne Schmitt
  14. El mar la mar
    Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki
  15. Drift
    Helena Wittmann
  16. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
  17. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
  18. Readers
    James Benning
  19. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
  20. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
  21. Life & Nothing More
    Antonio Méndez Esparza
  22. Baronesa
    Juliana Antunes
  23. Milla
    Valérie Massadian
  24. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
    Bruno Dumont
  25. Distant Constellation
    Shevaun Mizrahi
  26. The Nothing Factory
    Pedro Pinho
  27. Free and Easy
    Jun Geng
  28. A Gentle Creature
    Sergei Loznitsa
  29. Tonsler Park
    Kevin Jerome Everson
  30. American Made
    Doug Liman
  31. A Skin So Soft
    Denis Côté
  32. Have a Nice Day
    Liu Jian
  33. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch

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