Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 50 Top Films of 2017 (of US releases)

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2021 • 2015]

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
6. The Post
   Steven Spielberg
7. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
8. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
9. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
10. Lady Macbeth
    William Oldroyd
11. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
12. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
13. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
14. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
15. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
16. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
17. Heal the Living
    Katell Quillévéré
18. Personal Shopper
    Olivier Assayas
19. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
20. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
21. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
22. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
23. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
24. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. I, Daniel Blake
    Ken Loach
26. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
27. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
28. Detroit
    Kathryn Bigelow
29. T2 Trainspotting
    Danny Boyle
30. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
31. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
32. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
33. Logan
    James Mangold
34. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
35. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
36. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
37. Strong Island
    Yance Ford
38. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
39. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
40. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
41. Beatriz at Dinner
    Miguel Arteta
42. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
43. A Quiet Passion
    Terence Davies
44. My Cousin Rachel
    Roger Michell
45. Menashe
    Joshua Z Weinstein
46. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi
47. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer
48. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
49. Stronger
    David Gordon Green
50. Molly’s Game
    Aaron Sorkin