Year-End Lists

The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2017. See also their list of documentaries.

[see also 2018]

1. Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
2. A Ghost Story — David Lowery
3. Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
4. Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
5. Get Out — Jordan Peele
6. Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
7. Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
8. Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
9. The Florida Project — Sean Baker
10. Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
11. The Lost City of Z — James Gray
12. Song to Song — Terrence Malick
13. mother! — Darren Aronofsky
14. BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
15. On the Beach at Night Alone — Hong Sang-soo
16. Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
17. Princess Cyd — Stephen Cone
18. Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
19. Brawl in Cell Block 99 — S. Craig Zahler
20. A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
21. Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
22. Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
23. The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
24. You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
25. Columbus — Kogonada
26. The Square — Ruben Östlund
27. Mudbound — Dee Rees
28. Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
29. The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
30. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
31. Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
32. Staying Vertical — Alain Guiraudie
33. Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
34. Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
35. God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
36. Ta’ang — Wang Bing
37. Logan — James Mangold
38. Coco — Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
39. Tramps — Adam Leon
40. World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts — Don Hertzfeldt
41. Western — Valeska Grisebach
42. Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
43. Milla — Valérie Massadian
44. Raw — Julia Ducournau
45. The Untamed — Amat Escalante
46. Nathan for You: Finding Frances — Nathan Fielder
47. In This Corner of the World — Sunao Katabuchi
48. The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki
49. Good Luck — Ben Russell
50. Uncertain — Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands