Year-End Lists

Graham Fuller: 20 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Culture Trip

[see also 2012]

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
3. Lady Macbeth
   William Oldroyd
4. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
5. The Square
   Ruben Östlund
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
7. Happy End
   Michael Haneke
8. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
9. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
10. The Unknown Girl
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
11. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
12. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
13. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
14. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
15. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
16. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
17. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
18. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
    Maria Schrader
19. Foxtrot
    Samuel Maoz
20. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont

Hank Stuever: 20 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. The Handmaid’s Tale
3. The Vietnam War
4. Big Little Lies
5. Feud: Bette and Joan
6. Insecure
7. Better Things
8. GLOW
9. The Young Pope
10. Godless

Close to making the list

• Big Mouth
• The Crown
• The Deuce
• Game of Thrones
• The Good Fight
• Loudermilk
• One Day at a Time
• Patriot
• Stranger Things
• This Is Us

Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2017

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

1. DAMN.
   Kendrick Lamar
2. 4:44
   JAY-Z
3. Ctrl
   SZA
4. HNDRXX
   Future
5. Process
   Sampha
6. Flower Boy
   Tyler, The Creator
7. Culture
   Migos
8. Luv Is Rage 2
   Lil Uzi Vert
9. Freudian
   Daniel Caesar
10. More Life
    Drake
11. Fin
    Syd
12. Number 1 Angel
    Charli XCX
13. Laila’s Wisdom
    Rapsody
14. Big Fish Theory
    Vince Staples
15. FUTURE
    Future
16. The Bigger Artist
    A Boogie wit da Hoodie
17. Take Me Apart
    Kelela
18. ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
    Joey Bada$$
19. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1
    Calvin Harris
20. Rather You Than Me
    Rick Ross
21. Rainbow
    Ke$ha
22. Painting Pictures
    Kodak Black
23. You Only Live 2wice
    Freddie Gibbs
24. Droptopwop
    Gucci Mane
25. Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
    2 Chainz
26. reputation
    Taylor Swift
27. All Blue
    G Perico
28. At What Cost
    GoldLink
29. Rosebudd’s Revenge
    Roc Marciano
30. Drunk
    Thundercat
31. Into
    Sonder
32. 12
    A$AP Twelvyy
33. Harry Styles
    Harry Styles
34. Wins & Losses
    Meek Mill
35. Dua Lipa
    Dua Lipa
36. Good For You
    Aminé
37. Issa Album
    21 Savage
38. The Search for Everything
    John Mayer
39. Thinking Out Loud
    Young Dolph
40. Without Warning
    21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin
41. blkswn
    Smino
42. War & Leisure
    Miguel
43. The Never Story
    JID
44. Melodrama
    Lorde
45. No Dope on Sundays
    Cyhi The Prynce
46. Lust for Life
    Lana Del Rey
47. American Teen
    Khalid
48. Something To Tell You
    HAIM
49. Lil Pump
    Lil Pump
50. Black Ken
    Lil B

Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
3. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
4. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
5. Slack Bay
   Bruno Dumont
6. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
7. Beach Rats
   Eliza Hittman
8. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
9. Song to Song
   Terrence Malick
10. Silvio
    Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley
11. Lady Bird
    Greta Gerwig
12. Columbus
    Kogonada
13. Hermia & Helena
    Matías Piñeiro
14. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
15. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
16. Strong Island
    Yance Ford
17. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
18. Son of Joseph
    Eugène Green
19. Hissein Habre, a Chadian Tragedy
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
20. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
    Errol Morris
21. Félicité
    Alain Gomis
22. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
23. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
24. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
25. The Unknown Girl
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
26. Actor Martinez
    Mike Ott and Nathan Silver
27. Whose Streets?
    Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
28. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
29. Planetarium
    Rebecca Zlotowski
30. Marshall
    Reginald Hudlin
31. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
32. Icaros: A Vision
    Leonor Caraballo and Matteo Norzi
33. Mimosas
    Oliver Laxe
34. Wait for Your Laugh
    Jason Wise
35. The Rape of Recy Taylor
    Nancy Buirski

Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2017

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

1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
3. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
4. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
5. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
7. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
8. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
   Robin Campillo
9. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
10. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
11. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
14. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
15. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
16. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
17. Tempestad
    Tatiana Huezo
18. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei
19. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi
20. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
21. Behemoth
    Zhao Liang
22. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
23. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
24. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
26. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
27. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
28. In Transit
    David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
29. Columbus
    Kogonada
30. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
31. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
32. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
33. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
34. 4 Days in France
    Jérôme Reybaud
35. Hermia & Helena
    Matías Piñeiro
36. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
37. Son of Joseph
    Eugène Green
38. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
39. Paraguay Remembered
    Dominique Dubosc
40. Person to Person
    Dustin Guy Defa
41. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
42. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    Juho Kuosmanen
43. Mister Universo
    Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
44. The Human Surge
    Eduardo Williams
45. The Red Turtle
    Michael Dudok de Wit
46. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
47. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
48. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
49. Wet Woman in the Wind
    Akihiko Shiota
50. Harmonium
    Kôji Fukada

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