Year-End Lists

Karina Longworth: Favorite Movies of 2017 (as posted on Twitter, “some movies I saw and liked this year”)

[see also 2018 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Molly’s Game
  Aaron Sorkin

David Orr: Best Poetry of 2017, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

• The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons
  A.R. Ammons
• The Essential W.S. Merwin
  W.S. Merwin
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott
• So Where Are We?
  Lawrence Joseph
• Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog

  Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems
  August Kleinzahler
• Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment
  Alessandra Lynch
• Sun in Days
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Witch Wife
  Kiki Petrosino
• Fiends Fell
  Tom Pickard
• The Trembling Answers
  Craig Morgan Teicher
• Phrasis
  Wendy Xu

Brooklyn Vegan: Top 50 Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
4. Slowdive
   Slowdive
5. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
6. Turn Out the Lights
   Julien Baker
7. Nightmare Logic
   Power Trip
8. Pleasure
   Feist
9. No Shape
   Perfume Genius
10. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
11. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
12. SATURATION
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
12. SATURATION III
    BROCKHAMPTON
13. Capacity
    Big Thief
14. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
15. Life After Youth
    Land of Talk
16. Party
    Aldous Harding
17. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
18. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
19. Smidley
    Smidley
20. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
21. Plunge
    Fever Ray
22. Melodrama
    Lorde
23. The Nashville Sound
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
24. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
25. The Dusk In Us
    Converge
26. Process
    Sampha
27. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
28. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
29. Rest
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
30. Yaeji
    yaeji
30. EP2
    yaeji
31. Nothing Feels Natural
    Priests
32. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
33. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
34. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
34. From A Room: Volume 2
    Chris Stapleton
35. The OOZ
    King Krule
36. Prince of Tears
    Baxter Dury
37. Not Even Happiness
    Julie Byrne
38. After Laughter
    Paramore
39. Preservation
    Nadia Reid
40. Painted Ruins
    Grizzly Bear
41. Fin
    Syd
42. Utopia
    Björk
43. Relatives in Descent
    Protomartyr
44. Kelly Lee Owens
    Kelly Lee Owens
45. Packs
    Your Old Droog
46. Hug of Thunder
    Broken Social Scene
47. 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
    Big K.R.I.T.
48. Apocalipstick
    Cherry Glazerr
49. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
50. I Love You Like a Brother
    Alex Lahey

Tasha Robinson: 15 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Verge

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Brigsby Bear
  Dave McCary
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mary and the Witch’s Flower
  Hiromasa Yonebayashi
• The Breadwinner
  Nora Twomey
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• The Red Turtle
  Michael Dudok de Wit

Noel Murray: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Verge

[see also 2022 • 2020 • 2018]

• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Halt and Catch Fire
• The Leftovers
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Mindhunter
• Black-ish
• Better Call Saul
• Fargo
• The Good Place
• One Day at a Time
• Brockmire
• Feud
• Great News
• The Vietnam War
• Outlander
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• The Deuce
• Rick and Morty
• Stranger Things
• Survivor’s Remorse

Steve Erickson: Top 26 Films of 2017, as published by Gay City News

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
3. Wormwood
   Errol Morris
4. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
5. Starless Dreams
   Mehrdad Oskouei
6. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
7. i hate myself :)
   Joanna Arnow
8. The Other Side of Hope
   Aki Kaurismäki
9. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
10. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda

Runners-up

• Beach Rats
  Eliza Hittman
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• City of Ghosts
  Matthew Heineman
• Colossal
  Nacho Vigalondo
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• Endless Poetry
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• My Friend Dahmer
  Marc Meyers
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• The Untamed
  Amat Escalante
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz

David Bianculli: Best TV of 2017 (as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air)

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Better Call Saul
2. Godless
3. Curb Your Enthusiasm
4. Fargo
5. Legion
6. Mindhunter
7. Black Mirror
8. The Americans
9. The Good Place
10. Big Little Lies
10. The Deuce
10. The Handmaid’s Tale

Sputnikmusic: Top 50 Albums of 2017

[see also 2015]

1. Sleep Well Beast
   The National
2. The Assassination of Julius Caesar
   Ulver
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. A Black Mile To The Surface
   Manchester Orchestra
5. After the Party
   The Menzingers
6. Happy Birthday
   Blood Cultures
7. Melodrama
   Lorde
8. Go Farther in Lightness
   Gang of Youths
9. In the Passing Light of Day
   Pain of Salvation
10. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
11. Science Fiction
    Brand New
12. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
13. Stranger in the Alps
    Phoebe Bridgers
14. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
15. After Laughter
    Paramore
16. A Deeper Understanding
    The War on Drugs
17. Material Control
    Glassjaw
18. Arca
    Arca
19. Process
    Sampha
20. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
21. Vigilance Perennial
    Falls of Rauros
22. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
22. Ephemeral Constructions
    Jürg Frey
24. Plunge
    Fever Ray
25. Winter
    Fen
26. Infrared Horizon
    Artificial Brain
27. Foreword
    DispersE
28. Neō Wax Bloom
    Iglooghost
29. Slowdive
    Slowdive
30. Victory Lap
    Propagandhi
31. To the Bone
    Steven Wilson
32. Vol. 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present
    Bedwetter
33. Thrice Woven
    Wolves in the Throne Room
34. Go Be Forgotten
    Krallice
35. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
36. Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay
    Cradle of Filth
37. Stubborn Persistent Illusions
    Do Make Say Think
38. All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell
    PVRIS
39. World Eater
    Blanck Mass
40. The OOZ
    King Krule
41. The Endless Shimmering
    And So I Watch You From Afar
42. Lykantropi
    Lykantropi
43. Turn Out the Lights
    Julien Baker
44. More Scared of You Than You Are of Me
    The Smith Street Band
45. The Ghosts That I Fear
    Dad Thighs
46. Heavy Black Heart
    death’s dynamic shroud
47. Always Foreign
    The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
48. Endless
    1800HaightStreet
49. I Tell A Fly
    Benjamin Clementine
50. The Crowning of the Fire King
    Sorcerer

Adrian Martin: Top Ten Films of 2017

[see also 2015 • 2012]

1. Sweet Dreams
   Marco Bellocchio
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
3. Lover for a Day
   Philippe Garrel
4. Detroit
   Kathryn Bigelow
5. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Hermia & Helena
   Matías Piñeiro
7. The Unknown Girl
   Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
8. Song to Song
   Terrence Malick
9. The Assignment
   Walter Hill
10. Creepy
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa

A special word for two Australian films

• Strange Colours
  Alena Lodkina
• Songs of Revolution
  Bill Mousoulis

Pigeons & Planes: Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2016 • 2015]

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. Ctrl
   SZA
3. Melodrama
   Lorde
4. SATURATION III
   BROCKHAMPTON
5. 4:44
   JAY-Z
6. blkswn
   Smino
7. Freudian
   Daniel Caesar
8. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
9. FUTURE
   Future
10. Beach House 3
    Ty Dolla $ign
11. The Never Story
    JID
12. Flower Boy
    Tyler, The Creator
13. The OOZ
    King Krule
14. Process
    Sampha
15. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
16. Common Sense
    J Hus
17. Without Warning
    21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin
18. Fin
    Syd
19. Painting Pictures
    Kodak Black
20. Culture
    Migos
21. Stranger
    Yung Lean
22. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
23. At What Cost
    GoldLink
24. Apricot Princess
    Rex Orange County
25. Boo Boo
    Toro y Moi
26. Playboi Carti
    Playboi Carti
27. This Old Dog
    Mac DeMarco
28. SYRE
    Jaden Smith
29. Wamp 2 Dem
    Giggs
30. Aromanticism
    Moses Sumney
31. Issa
    21 Savage
32. A Crow Looked at Me
    Mount Eerie
33. Droptopwop
    Gucci Mane
34. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
35. Drunk
    Thundercat
36. MASSEDUCTION
    St. Vincent
37. BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS
    Young Thug
38. Mourn
    Corbin
39. No Mountains in Manhattan
    Wiki
40. Gang Signs & Prayer
    Stormzy
41. War & Leisure
    Miguel
42. Good For You
    Aminé
43. Run the Jewels 3
    Run the Jewels
44. IWASVERYBAD
    IDK
45. More Life
    Drake
46. Peak
    Choker
47. Lil Pump
    Lil Pump
48. American Teen
    Khalid
49. No Dope on Sundays
    Cyhi The Prynce
50. Number 1 Angel
    Charli XCX