Year-End Lists

Christian Lorentzen: 10 Best Books of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2018]

1. So Much Blue
   Percival Everett
2. Priestdaddy
   Patricia Lockwood
3. The Idiot
   Elif Batuman
4. The Schooldays of Jesus
   J.M. Coetzee
5. Sour Heart
   Jenny Zhang
6. The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
   Elizabeth Hardwick
7. Sticky Fingers

   The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
   Joe Hagan
8. Notes on a Foreign Country

   An American Abroad in a Post-American World
   Suzy Hansen
9. Moving Kings
   Joshua Cohen
10. The Invention of Angela Carter

    A Biography
    Edmund Gordon

AllMusic: 70 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Mental Illness
  Aimee Mann
• Telemann: Concerti per molti stromenti
  Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
• The Underside of Power
  Algiers
• Antisocialites
  Alvvays
• Wrangled
  Angaleena Presley
• Carnevale 1729
  Ann Hallenberg, il pomo d’oro & Stefano Montanari
• Arca
  Arca
• Witness
  Katy Perry
• Utopia
  Björk
• Expectativas
  Bunbury
• Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
  La Compagnia del Madrigale, Cantica Symphonia, La Pifarescha & Giuseppe Maletto
• Reaching For Indigo
  Circuit Des Yeux
• A flame my love, a frequency
  Colleen
• The Dusk In Us
  Converge
• Face Your Fear
  Curtis Harding
• Dreams and Daggers
  Cécile McLorin Salvant
• Spirit
  Depeche Mode
• Cost of Living
  Downtown Boys
• Exile In the Outer Ring
  EMA
• Ex Eye
  Ex Eye
• Plunge
  Fever Ray
• Crack-Up
  Fleet Foxes
• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloé, Complete Ballet
  François-Xavier Roth / Les Siècles
• Changer
  Fred Thomas
• Narkopop
  Gas
• Earl Grey
  Girl Ray
• The Navigator
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Brutalism
  Idles
• Modern Kosmology
  Jane Weaver
• UNDIVIDED HEART & SOUL
  J.D. McPherson
• Black Origami
  Jlin
• Halo
  Juana Molina
• The Kid
  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• SweetSexySavage
  Kehlani
• Take Me Apart
  Kelela
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• The OOZ
  King Krule
• Slowheart
  Kip Moore
• Amar Y Vivir (En Vivo Desde La Ciudad De México, 2017)
  La Santa Cecilia
• Semper Femina
  Laura Marling
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• Melodrama
  Lorde
• Ojalá
  Lost Horizons
• This Old Dog
  Mac DeMarco
• Emperor of Sand
  Mastodon
• Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
  Max Richter
• A Crow Looked at Me
  Mount Eerie
• Goodnight Rhonda Lee
  Nicole Atkins
• Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
  Nicole Mitchell
• Multi-Task
  Omni
• After Laughter
  Paramore
• Relatives in Descent
  Protomartyr
• Dark Matter
  Randy Newman
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, WAB 109 (Original 1894 Version)
  Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Carry Fire
  Robert Plant
• Bells For the South Side
  Roscoe Mitchell
• Strike a Match
  SACRED PAWS
• Process
  Sampha
• Need to Feel Your Love
  Sheer Mag
• Man vs. Sofa
  Sherwood & Pinch
• MASSEDUCTION
  St. Vincent
• Music For People In Trouble
  Susanne Sundfør
• Ctrl
  SZA
• Music for the Age of Miracles
  The Clientele
• Interplanetary Class Classics
  The Moonlandingz
• Flower Boy
  Tyler, The Creator
• Far from Over
  Vijay Iyer Sextet
• Big Fish Theory
  Vince Staples
• Rule 62
  Whitney Rose
• Arise
  Zara McFarlane

Slant Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2017

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

1. The Leftovers
2. Dear White People
3. Twin Peaks: The Return
4. Better Things
5. The Deuce
6. BoJack Horseman
7. GLOW
8. The Girlfriend Experience
9. American Gods
10. Mindhunter
11. Big Little Lies
12. The Good Place
13. Master of None
14. The Handmaid’s Tale
15. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
16. The Americans
17. Rick and Morty
18. Better Call Saul
19. One Mississippi
20. Silicon Valley
21. Stranger Things
22. Broad City
23. Insecure
24. Black Mirror
25. She’s Gotta Have It

Dana Stevens: Top 15 Movies of 2017, as published by Slate

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins

Honorable Mentions

• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• My Happy Family
  Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel

Emily Yoshida: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2018]

1. Your Name
   Makoto Shinkai
2. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. Princess Cyd
   Stephen Cone
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Spettacolo
   Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
10. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
    Angela Robinson

Stephanie Zacharek: Top 10 Movies of 2017, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
4. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
5. Kedi
   Ceyda Torun
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
8. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee

Honorable Mentions

• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• My Life as a Zucchini
  Claude Barras
• California Typewriter
  Doug Nichol
• John Wick: Chapter 2
  Chad Stahelski
• The Little Hours
  Jeff Baena
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
  Michael Roberts

Ed Gonzalez: Top 30 Movies of 2017 (as posted on Twitter)

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. The Salesman
   Asghar Farhadi
3. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
4. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
5. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
6. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
7. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
8. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
10. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman

20 Next in Line

• 4 Days in France
  Jérôme Reybaud
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Harmonium
  Kôji Fukada
• In Transit
  David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Starless Dreams
  Mehrdad Oskouei
• Tempestad
  Tatiana Huezo
• War for the Planet of the Apes
  Matt Reeves
• The Work
  Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous

Pretty Much Amazing: 20 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Melodrama
   Lorde
2. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
3. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
4. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
5. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
6. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
7. I See You
   The xx
8. Ctrl
   SZA
9. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
10. Pure Comedy
    Father John Misty
11. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
12. Sleep Well Beast
    The National
13. No Shape
    Perfume Genius
14. Crack-Up
    Fleet Foxes
15. 50 Song Memoir
    The Magnetic Fields
16. Slowdive
    Slowdive
17. SATURATION II
    BROCKHAMPTON
18. Soft Sounds from Another Planet
    Japanese Breakfast
19. Arca
    Arca
20. Everybody Works
    Jay Som

K. Austin Collins: 24 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Ringer

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
1. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
2. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
5. Beach Rats
   Eliza Hittman
6. Song to Song
   Terrence Malick
7. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
10. Columbus
    Kogonada

Honorable Mentions

• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Dark Night
  Tim Sutton
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• John Wick: Chapter 2
  Chad Stahelski
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes
• Your Name
  Makoto Shinkai

Rob Harvilla: 10 Best Albums of 2017, as published by The Ringer

1. 4:44
   JAY-Z
2. Melodrama
   Lorde
3. Antisocialites
   Alvvays
4. Hot Thoughts
   Spoon
5. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
8. All American Made
   Margo Price
9. Guppy
   Charly Bliss
10. Pleasure
    Feist