Year-End Lists

La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2017 (an annual survey of 135 critics, programmers, festival directors and filmmakers from 36 countries, organized by Roger Koza)

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

1. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
2. The Other Side of Hope
   Aki Kaurismäki
3. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
4. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
5. The Nothing Factory
   Pedro Pinho
5. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch

Honorable Mentions

6. The Day After
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
8. The Wandering Soap Opera
   Raoul Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento
8. Araby
   João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa
9. In the Intense Now
   João Moreira Salles
10. Lover for a Day
    Philippe Garrel

Listening Through The Lens: 20 Favorite Albums of 2017

1. Freedom Highway
   Rhiannon Giddens
2. Turmoil & Tinfoil
   Billy Strings
3. Restless
   David Luning
4. Big Bad Luv
   John Moreland
5. All American Made
   Margo Price
6. The Order of Time
   Valerie June
7. Poor David’s Almanack
   David Rawlings
8. The Nashville Sound
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
9. Way Out West
   Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
10. From A Room: Volume 1
    Chris Stapleton
11. Letters Never Read
    Dori Freeman
12. Jason Eady
    Jason Eady
13. Graveyard Whistling
    Old 97’s
14. Close Ties
    Rodney Crowell
15. The Ahern Brothers
    The Ahern Brothers
16. Natural Conclusion
    Rose Cousins
17. Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins
    Chuck Prophet
18. Purgatory
    Tyler Childers
19. Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can
    Ray Wylie Hubbard
20. Southern Blood
    Gregg Allman

Denis Côté: Top Ten Films of 2017, as submitted to the annual collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• Mrs. Fang
  Wang Bing
• Frost
  Šarūnas Bartas
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Dragonfly Eyes
  Xu Bing
• Distant Constellation
  Shevaun Mizrahi

Lydia Ogwang: Top Ten Films of 2017, as submitted to the annual collection of Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

[see also 2018]

• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Strangely Ordinary This Devotion
  Dani Leventhal and Sheilah Wilson
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• This Time Tomorrow
  Lina Rodriguez
• Incense, Sweaters, and Ice
  Martine Syms
• Ouroboros
  Basma Alsharif
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• La Libertad
  Laura Huertas Millán

Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2017

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015]

1. Aromanticism
   Moses Sumney
2. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
3. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
4. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
5. Black Origami
   Jlin
6. Capacity
   Big Thief
7. american dream
   LCD Soundsystem
8. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
   Open Mike Eagle
9. Kelly Lee Owens
   Kelly Lee Owens
10. Utopia
    Björk
11. Harmony of Difference
    Kamasi Washington
12. The Kid
    Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
13. Ctrl
    SZA
14. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
15. Yaeji
    yaeji
15. EP2
    yaeji
16. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
17. The Weather Station
    The Weather Station
18. Narkopop
    Gas
19. A Hairshirt of Purpose
    Pile
20. Common Sense
    J Hus

No Depression: Best Albums of 2017

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

• Silver Tears
  Aaron Lee Tasjan
• Faster & Farther
  Darin & Brooke Aldridge
• Pure Comedy
  Father John Misty
• Hallelujah Anyhow
  Hiss Golden Messenger
• The Navigator
  Hurray for the Riff Raff
• Beast Epic
  Iron & Wine
• The Nashville Sound
  Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
• Joan Shelley
  Joan Shelley
• Contraband Love
  Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
• Grace
  Lizz Wright
• All American Made
  Margo Price
• If All I Was Was Black
  Mavis Staples
• Champion
  Nora Jane Struthers
• Workin’s Too Hard
  Rayna Gellert
• Freedom Highway
  Rhiannon Giddens
• Close Ties
  Rodney Crowell
• Joy Comes Back
  Ruthie Foster
• The Following Mountain
  Sam Amidon
• You Don’t Own Me Anymore
  The Secret Sisters
• Soul of a Woman
  Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
• Queens of the Breakers
  The Barr Brothers
• Transient Lullaby
  The Mastersons
• The Order of Time
  Valerie June

Film School Rejects: Best Movies of 2017

[see also 2010s • 2018]

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. Thelma
   Joachim Trier
3. Columbus
   Kogonada
4. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
5. Foxtrot
   Samuel Maoz
6. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
7. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
8. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
   Angela Robinson
9. Bad Genius
   Nattawut Poonpiriya
10. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
11. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
12. John Wick: Chapter 2
    Chad Stahelski
13. Hostiles
    Scott Cooper
14. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
15. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
16. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
17. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky

The Daily Beast: 10 Best Albums of 2017

[see also 2018]

1. Big Fish Theory
   Vince Staples
2. A Crow Looked at Me
   Mount Eerie
3. The Order of Time
   Valerie June
4. Ctrl
   SZA
5. Melodrama
   Lorde
6. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
7. MASSEDUCTION
   St. Vincent
8. Science Fiction
   Brand New
9. A Deeper Understanding
   The War on Drugs
10. Droptopwop
    Gucci Mane

Erin Trahan: Best Movies of 2017, as posted by WBUR's The ARTery

[see also 2018]

• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Motherland
  Ramona S. Diaz
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• The Last Pig
  Allison Argo

Sean Burns: Best Movies of 2017, as posted by WBUR’s The ARTery

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

• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson