Year-End Lists

The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2017

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
3. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
4. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
5. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
6. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
7. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
8. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
9. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
10. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
11. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
12. Mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
13. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
14. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
15. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
16. Columbus
    Kogonada
17. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
18. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
19. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
20. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
21. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
22. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
23. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
24. It Comes at Night
    Trey Edward Shults
25. Beach Rats
    Eliza Hittman

Very Near Misses

• Thelma
  Joachim Trier
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Disaster Artist
  James Franco
• The Square
  Ruben Östlund

Following Hot on Their Heels

• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• Logan
  James Mangold
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• On the Beach at Night Alone
  Hong Sang-soo
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick

Made It Onto More Than One List

• Nocturama
  Bertrand Bonello
• Loveless
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Ingrid Goes West
  Matt Spicer
• Detroit
  Kathryn Bigelow
• I, Tonya
  Craig Gillespie
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan
• The Beguiled
  Sofia Coppola
• Battle of the Sexes
  Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
  S. Craig Zahler