Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: 32 Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

1. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
2. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. mother!
   Darren Aronofsky
5. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
6. Columbus
   Kogonada
7. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
8. Brawl in Cell Block 99
   S. Craig Zahler
9. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
10. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
11. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
12. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan

Plus 20 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• Detroit
  Kathryn Bigelow
• Faces Places
  Agnès Varda and JR
• Get Out
  Jordan Peele
• A Ghost Story
  David Lowery
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• God’s Own Country
  Francis Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• Logan Lucky
  Steven Soderbergh
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• Loveless
  Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• Raw
  Julia Ducournau
• Son of Joseph
  Eugène Green
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  Rian Johnson
• Wonder Woman
  Patty Jenkins
• The Work
  Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous