Year-End Lists

RogerEbert.com: Ten Best Films of 2017, as selected by the site’s regular critics and editors

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

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
5. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
7. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Christy Lemire: 10 Best Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Allison Shoemaker: Top Ten Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Ben Kenigsberg: Best Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Christina Newland: Top Ten Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Jacob Oller: Ten Best Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Matt Zoller Seitz: Best Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Odie Henderson: Top Ten Films of 2017
• RogerEbert.com: Sheila O’Malley: Best Films of 2017

Kenneth Turan: Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

Turan has organized the films into thematic categories (“exciters,” “canny veterans,” etc.), and in each one he lists a couple of favorites and an honorable mention. The films are listed below, but see his write-up for the proper structure.

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2015 • 2012]

• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Walking Out
  Alex & Andrew Smith
• Foxtrot
  Samuel Maoz
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• One Week and a Day
  Asaph Polonsky
• Hostiles
  Scott Cooper
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan
• The Ballad of Lefty Brown
  Jared Moshe
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh

IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2017 (as voted by more than 200 critics)

The poll also has separate listings for undistributed films, foreign language films, and documentaries.

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1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
7. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
8. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
9. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
10. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
11. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
12. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
13. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
14. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
15. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
16. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
17. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
18. Columbus
    Kogonada
19. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
20. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
21. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
22. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
23. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
24. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
25. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
26. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
27. Logan
    James Mangold
28. Menashe
    Joshua Z Weinstein
29. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
30. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
31. Wind River
    Taylor Sheridan
32. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
33. Beatriz at Dinner
    Miguel Arteta
34. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun
35. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
36. Hostiles
    Scott Cooper
37. After the Storm
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
38. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
39. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
40. Split
    M. Night Shyamalan
41. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
42. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
43. It
    Andy Muschietti
44. Beach Rats
    Eliza Hittman
45. It Comes at Night
    Trey Edward Shults
46. Battle of the Sexes
    Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
47. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
48. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
    Macon Blair
49. Step
    Amanda Lipitz
50. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour: Favorite Movies of 2017

[see also 2018]

• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Coco
  Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• A Fantastic Woman
  Sebastián Lelio
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• The LEGO Batman Movie
  Chris McKay
• Logan
  James Mangold
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Princess Cyd
  Stephen Cone
• The Square
  Ruben Östlund
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson
• Thor: Ragnarok
  Taika Waititi
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh
• Whose Streets?
  Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• Your Name
  Makoto Shinkai

Nick Schager: Best Movies of 2017, as published by Esquire

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1. Wormwood
   Errol Morris
2. Lady Macbeth
   William Oldroyd
3. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
4. Marjorie Prime
   Michael Almereyda
5. Columbus
   Kogonada
6. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
   Macon Blair
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
10. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
11. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
    Oz Perkins
12. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
13. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
14. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
15. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
16. Lucky
    John Carroll Lynch
17. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
18. Atomic Blonde
    David Leitch
19. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
20. Super Dark Times
    Kevin Phillips
21. Alien: Covenant
    Ridley Scott
22. City of Ghosts
    Matthew Heineman
23. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
24. Icaros: A Vision
    Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi
25. The Lure
    Agnieszka Smoczynska

Honorable Mention

• Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  Frederick Wiseman
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Hounds of Love
  Ben Young
• The Villainess
  Jung Byung-gil
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Stronger
  David Gordon Green
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright

John Powers: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by Vogue

[see also 2018 • 2015]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch

The next nine (in alphabetical order)

• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker
• Graduation
  Cristian Mungiu
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson

Michael J. Anderson: Ten Best Films of 2017

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s]

• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Milla
  Valérie Massadian
• Downsizing
  Alexander Payne
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
  Bruno Dumont
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• Ghost in the Mountains
  Yang Heng
• Lover for a Day
  Philippe Garrel

Glenn Kenny: 63 Best Films of 2017

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• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Baby Driver
  Edgar Wright
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• The Bad Batch
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• The Florida Project
  Sean Baker

First Tier Honorable Mentions

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Afterimage
  Andrzej Wajda
• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Behemoth
  Zhao Liang
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
  Errol Morris
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler
• Colossal
  Nacho Vigalondo
• Columbus
  Kogonada
• The Death of Stalin
  Armando Iannucci
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• Endless Poetry
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Félicité
  Alain Gomis
• Gerald’s Game
  Mike Flanagan
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• Glory
  Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Happy End
  Michael Haneke
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• I, Olga Hepnarová
  Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• Porto
  Gabe Klinger
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• Logan
  James Mangold
• Long Strange Trip
  Amir Bar-Lev
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• The Lovers
  Azazel Jacobs
• Manifesto
  Julian Rosefeldt
• Marjorie Prime
  Michael Almereyda
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Moka
  Frédéric Mermoud
• The Other Side of Hope
  Aki Kaurismäki
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Suntan
  Argyris Papadimitropoulos
• The Unknown Girl
  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
• Valerian
  Luc Besson
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan

Second Tier Honorable Mentions

• Alien: Covenant
  Ridley Scott
• Bang! The Bert Berns Story
  Brett Berns and Bob Sarles
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Blade Runner 2049
  Denis Villeneuve
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Free Fire
  Ben Wheatley
• The Glass Castle
  Destin Daniel Cretton
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• Hermia & Helena
  Matías Piñeiro
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
  Griffin Dunne
• Maudie
  Aisling Walsh
• Slack Bay
  Bruno Dumont
• Wonder
  Stephen Chbosky

Conflicts of Interest

• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh

Peter Travers: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

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

1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
3. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
5. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. Detroit
   Kathryn Bigelow
9. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
10. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson

David Fear: 22 Best Documentaries of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2018 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
2. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
3. All These Sleepless Nights
   Michal Marczak
4. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
5. LA 92
   Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
6. Machines
   Rahul Jain
7. Whose Streets?
   Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
8. Long Strange Trip
   Amir Bar-Lev
9. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
   Chris Smith
10. Quest
    Jonathan Olshefski

Honorable mentions

• Casting JonBenet
  Kitty Green
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• Jane
  Brett Morgen
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
  Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio
• Oklahoma City
  Barak Goodman
• Rat Film
  Theo Anthony
• 78/52
  Alexandre O. Philippe
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
  Corbett Redford