The Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2017. See also their list of documentaries.
[see also 2018]
- Good Time — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- A Ghost Story — David Lowery
- Lady Bird — Greta Gerwig
- Call Me by Your Name — Luca Guadagnino
- Get Out — Jordan Peele
- Twin Peaks: The Return — David Lynch
- Dawson City: Frozen Time — Bill Morrison
- Nocturama — Bertrand Bonello
- The Florida Project — Sean Baker
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Lost City of Z — James Gray
- Song to Song — Terrence Malick
- mother! — Darren Aronofsky
- BPM (Beats Per Minute) — Robin Campillo
- On the Beach at Night Alone — Hong Sang-soo
- Dunkirk — Christopher Nolan
- Princess Cyd — Stephen Cone
- Marjorie Prime — Michael Almereyda
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 — S. Craig Zahler
- A Quiet Passion — Terence Davies
- Blade Runner 2049 — Denis Villeneuve
- Ex Libris: New York Public Library — Frederick Wiseman
- The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
- You Were Never Really Here — Lynne Ramsay
- Columbus — Kogonada
- The Square — Ruben Östlund
- Mudbound — Dee Rees
- Personal Shopper — Olivier Assayas
- The Work — Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — Martin McDonagh
- Faces Places — Agnès Varda and JR
- Staying Vertical — Alain Guiraudie
- Wonder Woman — Patty Jenkins
- Foxtrot — Samuel Maoz
- God’s Own Country — Francis Lee
- Ta’ang — Wang Bing
- Logan — James Mangold
- Coco — Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
- Tramps — Adam Leon
- World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts — Don Hertzfeldt
- Western — Valeska Grisebach
- Loveless — Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Milla — Valérie Massadian
- Raw — Julia Ducournau
- The Untamed — Amat Escalante
- Nathan for You: Finding Frances — Nathan Fielder
- In This Corner of the World — Sunao Katabuchi
- The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki
- Good Luck — Ben Russell
- Uncertain — Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands