Year-End Lists

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

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• 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

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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)

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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

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

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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

Ann Hornaday: 12 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Washington Post. Her article highlights a number of other favorites, too, “honorables duly mentioned”.

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1. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
4. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
8. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
9. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
10. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
10. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
10. Their Finest
    Lone Scherfig

Mara Reinstein: Top 10 Movies of 2017, as published by Us Weekly

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1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
3. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
4. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
5. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
6. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
7. I, Tonya
   Craig Gillespie
8. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
9. Wonder
   Stephen Chbosky
10. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky

Honorable mentions

• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• Battle of the Sexes
  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Darkest Hour
  Joe Wright
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Thor: Ragnarok
  Taika Waititi
• Ingrid Goes West
  Matt Spicer
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee

A.O. Scott: 21 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

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1. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
5. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
6. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. A Fantastic Woman
   Sebastián Lelio
8. Graduation
   Cristian Mungiu
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves

And Also

• The Bad Batch
  Ana Lily Amirpour
• BPM (Beats Per Minute)
  Robin Campillo
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro

Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

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1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
4. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins

Other Favorites

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Escapes
  Michael Almereyda
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
  Chris Smith
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Patti Cake$
  Geremy Jasper
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Tonsler Park
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2017

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1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc
   Bruno Dumont
3. Certain Women
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
5. The Day After
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Lover for a Day
   Philippe Garrel
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Split
   M. Night Shyamalan
9. Jackie
   Pablo Larraín
10. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
    Ang Lee