2017 Top Ten List

  • mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
  • Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • A Gentle Creature (Sergei Loznitsa)
  • The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
  • Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • Wormwood (Errol Morris)
  • Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
  • Brimstone & Glory (Viktor Jakovleski)
  • Félicité (Alain Gomis)

    • Additional 2017 Films By Rating

  • Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh)
  • 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
  • Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
  • Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  • Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
  • Who We Are Now (Matthew Newton)
  • The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
  • Get Out (Jordan Peele)
  • Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
  • American Made (Doug Liman)
  • Life and Nothing More (Antonio Méndez Esparza)
  • Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
  • Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
  • Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  • One Cut of the Dead (Shinichiro Ueda)
  • Nobody's Watching (Julia Solomonoff)
  • Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
  • The Green Fog (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
  • I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (Macon Blair)
  • Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin)
  • The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (Masaaki Yuasa)
  • Good Manners (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
  • This Is Our Land (Lucas Belvaux)
  • The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
  • A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
  • Those Who Are Fine (Cyril Schäublin)
  • Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  • The Glass Castle (Destin Daniel Cretton)
  • En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
  • Ava (Léa Mysius)
  • Where Is Kyra? (Andrew Dosunmu)
  • Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
  • Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
  • John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
  • On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sangsoo)
  • Dim the Fluorescents (Daniel Warth)
  • Jane (Brett Morgen)
  • Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike)
  • Dark River (Clio Barnard)
  • The Wound (John Trengove)
  • The Endless (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
  • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan)
  • First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  • Pendular (Julia Murat)
  • Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
  • BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
  • Coco (Lee Unkrich)
  • Strong Island (Yance Ford)
  • The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  • The Force (Peter Nicks)
  • Stronger (David Gordon Green)
  • Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
  • Chasing Coral (Jeff Orlowski)
  • A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)
  • Wonder (Stephen Chbosky)
  • Logan (James Mangold)
  • Outside In (Lynn Shelton)
  • Summer 1993 (Carla Simón)
  • Mary and the Witch's Flower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
  • Journey's End (Saul Dibb)
  • Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  • Win It All (Joe Swanberg)
  • Brad's Status (Mike White)
  • Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond—With a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (Chris Smith)
  • Okja (Bong Joon Ho)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts)
  • Thelma (Joachim Trier)
  • Western (Valeska Grisebach)
  • Darkest Hour (Joe Wright)
  • Ray Meets Helen (Alan Rudolph)
  • Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
  • Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
  • Ex Libris (Frederick Wiseman)
  • Columbus (Kogonada)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
  • The Captain (Robert Schwentke)
  • The Post (Steven Spielberg)
  • Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
  • Paddington 2 (Paul King)
  • Long Strange Trip (Amir Bar-Lev)
  • Novitiate (Maggie Betts)
  • Super Dark Times (Kevin Phillips)
  • 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (Alexandre O. Philippe)
  • Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi)
  • Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  • Small Crimes (Evan Katz)
  • War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
  • Mudbound (Dee Rees)
  • Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui)
  • Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
  • Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  • The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
  • ManHunt (John Woo)
  • T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
  • Trophy (Shaul Schwarz)
  • Unlocked (Michael Apted)
  • Gemini (Aaron Katz)
  • All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott)
  • Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
  • Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Mademoiselle Paradis (Barbara Albert)
  • In the Fade (Fatih Akin)
  • Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
  • The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
  • The Hero (Brett Haley)
  • Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós (Lucy Walker)
  • Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
  • The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
  • You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  • Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Dan Gilroy)
  • Beast (Michael Pearce)
  • Walking Out (Alex & Andrew Smith)
  • The Square (Ruben Östlund)
  • I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
  • The Sense of an Ending (Ritesh Batra)
  • Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)
  • My Happy Family (Nana & Simon)
  • Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
  • The Workshop (Laurent Cantet)
  • Megan Leavey (Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
  • Rodin (Jacques Doillon)
  • The Shape of Water (Guillermo Del Toro)
  • Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
  • Oklahoma City (Barak Goodman)
  • Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
  • Ghost Stories (Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman)
  • Suburbicon (George Clooney)
  • The Motive (Manuel Martín Cuenca)
  • It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults)
  • Loving Pablo (Fernando León de Aranoa)
  • Jupiter's Moon (Kornél Mundruczó)
  • Plonger (Mélanie Laurent)
  • Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • A Prayer Before Dawn (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
  • Mom & Dad (Brian Taylor)
  • Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  • What Will People Say (Iram Haq)
  • Godard Mon Amour (Michel Hazanavicius)
  • The Third Murder (Kore-eda Hirokazu)
  • Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
  • Radiance (Naomi Kawase)
  • The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
  • Please Stand By (Ben Lewin)
  • Spoor (Agnieszka Holland & Kasia Adamik)
  • The Ritual (David Bruckner)
  • The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois)
  • The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  • Bushwick (Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott)
  • Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
  • An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk)
  • The Party (Sally Potter)
  • Mark Felt—The Man Who Brought Down the White House (Peter Landesman)
  • The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs)
  • Phoenix Forgotten (Justin Barber)
  • Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)
  • Happy End (Michael Haneke)
  • Ismaël's Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
  • The House (Andrew Jay Cohen)
  • Mrs Hyde (Serge Bozon)
  • Double Lover (François Ozon)
  • Naked (Michael Tiddes)
  • The Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow)
  • A Bad Moms Christmas (Jon Lucas & Scott Moore)
  • Rings (F. Javier Gutiérrez)
  • Rebel in the Rye (Danny Strong)
  • Flatliners (Niels Arden Oplev)
  • Geostorm (Dean Devlin)
  • Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta)
  • Caniba (Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)