Year-End Lists

Scout Tafoya: Favorite Films of 2017, with a capsule review of each one

[see also 2021 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. The Rider
   Chloé Zhao
5. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
6. A Cure for Wellness
   Gore Verbinski
7. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
8. The Young Karl Marx
   Raoul Peck
9. Éternité
   Tran Anh Hung
10. Contemporary Color
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
11. Behemoth
    Zhao Liang
12. My Happy Family
    Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß
13. Wormwood
    Errol Morris
14. Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey
    Terrence Malick
14. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
15. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
16. Alias Grace
    Mary Harron
17. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
18. Beach Rats
    Eliza Hittman
19. The Rape of Recy Taylor
    Nancy Buirski
20. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
21. Tour de Pharmacy
    Jake Szymanski
22. Sleep Has Her House
    Scott Barley
23. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
24. Mimosas
    Oliver Laxe
25. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
26. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
27. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
28. Let the Sunshine In
    Claire Denis
29. The Untamed
    Amat Escalante
30. Good Luck
    Ben Russell
31. In the Fade
    Fatih Akin
32. Blade of the Immortal
    Takashi Miike
33. Stronger
    David Gordon Green
34. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
35. Pilgrimage
    Brendan Muldowney
36. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
37. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
    John Ridley
38. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
39. Operation Avalanche
    Matt Johnson
40. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
41. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
42. Endless Poetry
    Alejandro Jodorowsky
43. Dark Night
    Tim Sutton
44. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
45. Whose Streets?
    Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
46. Strong Island
    Yance Ford
47. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
48. Landline
    Gillian Robespierre
49. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
50. Split
    M. Night Shyamalan
51. Hello Destroyer
    Kevan Funk
52. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Joseph Cedar
53. Afterimage
    Andrzej Wajda
54. Godless
    Scott Frank
55. Guerrilla
    John Ridley and Sam Miller
56. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
57. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
58. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
59. Jungle
    Greg McLean
60. Before We Vanish
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
61. Wasteland No.1 – Ardent, Verdant
    Jodie Mack
62. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
63. The Labyrinth
    Bram Ruiter
64. See You Yesterday
    Stefon Bristol
65. Alien: Covenant
    Ridley Scott
66. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi
67. The Assignment
    Walter Hill
68. Top of the Lake: China Girl
    Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman
69. Berlin Syndrome
    Cate Shortland
70. Ismael’s Ghosts
    Arnaud Desplechin
71. T2 Trainspotting
    Danny Boyle
72. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch
73. Paint It Black
    Amber Tamblyn
74. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
75. Gunpowder
    J Blakeson
76. It
    Andy Muschietti
77. All the Money in the World
    Ridley Scott
78. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
79. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
    Griffin Dunne
80. Logan
    James Mangold
81. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
82. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
83. Wind River
    Taylor Sheridan
84. Patton Oswalt: Annihilation
    Bobcat Goldthwait
85. The Wall
    Doug Liman
86. Horace Tapscott: Musical Griot
    Barbara McCullough
87. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
    Angela Robinson
88. Nathan for You: Finding Frances
    Nathan Fielder
89. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
90. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
91. American Fable
    Anne Hamilton
92. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
93. Kojo
    Michael Fequiere
94. The Event
    Sergei Loznitsa
95. Pumpkin Movie
    Sophy Romvari
95. It’s Him
    Sophy Romvari
96. The Daughter
    Simon Stone
97. The Great Wall
    Zhang Yimou
98. First They Killed My Father
    Angelina Jolie
99. Annabelle: Creation
    David F. Sandberg
100. The Commune
     Thomas Vinterberg