Year-End Lists

Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2017

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

1. Exit West
   Mohsin Hamid
2. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
3. Killers of the Flower Moon

   The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
   David Grann
4. Sing, Unburied, Sing
   Jesmyn Ward
5. Little Fires Everywhere
   Celeste Ng
6. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
   Emil Ferris
7. Goodbye, Vitamin
   Rachel Khong
8. The Power
   Naomi Alderman
9. The Hate U Give
   Angie Thomas
10. The Rules Do Not Apply
    Ariel Levy

Brandon Katz: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by Observer

1. The Leftovers
2. The Handmaid’s Tale
3. Master of None
4. American Vandal
5. Mindhunter
6. The Deuce
7. Stranger Things
8. Better Call Saul
9. GLOW
10. The Good Place

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Poetry of 2017 (“in no order”)

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

• Debths
  Susan Howe
• Which Once Had Been Meadow
  Ann Jaderlund
• Lunch Portraits
  Debora Kuan
• Selected Poems

  1962-1985
  Clark Coolidge
• The Yellow House
  Chiwan Choi
• Salted Rook
  Douglas Payne
• Corporations Are People, Too!
  Jerome Sala
• Tony Greene Era
  Kevin Killian
• The Circus
  Clark Coolidge
• Outplace
  Lital Khaikin
• Prose Architectures
  Renee Gladman
• The Astropastorals
  Douglas Crase
• The Happy End / All Welcome
  Monica de la Torre
• Rock|Salt|Stone
  Rosamond S. King
• I Am Flying into Myself

  Selected Poems, 1960-2014
  Bill Knott

Matt Singer: 20 Best Films of 2017, as published by ScreenCrush

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
3. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
4. Blade Runner 2049
   Denis Villeneuve
5. The Big Sick
   Michael Showalter
6. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
7. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
10. Get Out
    Jordan Peele

Honorable Mentions (In Alphabetical Order)

• Coco
  Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
• Darkest Hour
  Joe Wright
• The Girl with All the Gifts
  Colm McCarthy
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• Okja
  Bong Joon-ho
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• A Quiet Passion
  Terence Davies
• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• T2 Trainspotting
  Danny Boyle

Dennis Lim: Favorite Films of 2017, as posted by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and submitted to the Sight & Sound poll

[see also 2020]

Film Society of Lincoln Center

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
   David Lynch
2. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
3. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Western
   Valeska Grisebach
5. Streetscapes [Dialogue]
   Heinz Emigholz
6. The Day After
   Hong Sang-soo
6. On the Beach at Night Alone
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Claire’s Camera
   Hong Sang-soo
7. Downsizing
   Alexander Payne
8. Araby
   João Dumans and Affonso Uchôa
9. Tonsler Park
   Kevin Jerome Everson
10. Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
    Luke Fowler

Sight & Sound

• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Streetscapes [Dialogue]
  Heinz Emigholz
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo

Plus 10 short/medium-length films/moving-image works (in alphabetical order):

• Aliens
  Luis López Carrasco
• Barbs, Wastelands
  Marta Mateus
• Braguino
  Clément Cogitore
• Cosmic Generator
  Mika Rottenberg
• Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
  Luke Fowler
• Filter
  Jaakko Pallasvuo
• Flores
  Jorge Jácome
• Onward Lossless Follows
  Michael Robinson
• What weakens the flesh is the flesh itself
  James Richards and Steve Reinke
• Where Do You Stand Now, Joao Pedro Rodrigues?
  João Pedro Rodrigues

Ken Tucker: 10 Best TV Shows of 2017, as published by Yahoo

• Twin Peaks: The Return
• Better Call Saul
• Better Things
• The Leftovers
• Big Little Lies
• Insecure
• Legion
• Tales from the Tour Bus
• Catastrophe
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Greg Kot: 10 Favorite Albums of 2017, as published by The Chicago Tribune and aired on Sound Opinions

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

• Run the Jewels 3
  Run the Jewels
• The Hanged Man
  Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
• DAMN.
  Kendrick Lamar
• Saint or Sinner
  Sir The Baptist
• Cost of Living
  Downtown Boys
• Relatives in Descent
  Protomartyr
• The Autobiography
  Vic Mensa
• If All I Was Was Black
  Mavis Staples
• Aromanticism
  Moses Sumney
• Nothing Feels Natural
  Priests

The next 10

• Feel Your Feelings Fool!
  The Regrettes
• Lotta Sea Lice
  Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
• MASSEDUCTION
  St. Vincent
• Mental Illness
  Aimee Mann
• american dream
  LCD Soundsystem
• Utopia
  Björk
• Take Me Apart
  Kelela
• All American Made
  Margo Price
• She-Devils
  She-Devils
• In Between
  The Feelies

Michael Phillips: 10 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The Chicago Tribune

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

1. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
2. A Ghost Story
   David Lowery
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. Rat Film
   Theo Anthony
6. Mudbound
   Dee Rees
7. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. Raw
   Julia Ducournau
9. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
10. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino

The Chicago Tribune: 10 Best Books of 2017

Fiction

1. Stay with Me
   Ayobami Adebayo
2. Electric Arches
   Eve L. Ewing
3. Her Body and Other Parties
   Carmen Maria Machado
4. Lincoln in the Bardo
   George Saunders
5. Autumn
   Ali Smith

Nonfiction

1. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
   Hanif Abdurraqib
2. The Future Is History

   How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
   Masha Gessen
3. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
   Samantha Irby
4. Priestdaddy
   Patricia Lockwood
5. Tenements, Towers & Trash

   An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
   Julia Wertz

Nicole Brenez: Favorite Films of 2017, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll and to the annual collection of lists curated by Toronto Film Review

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

• The Ride
  Stéphanie Gillard
• A Feeling Greater Than Love
  Mary Jirmanus Saba
• Sakhisona
  Prantik Narayan Basu
• Rubber Coated Stee
  Lawrence Abu Hamdan
• This is a War, Baby
  Yuri Pupyrin

superb films I’m not mentioning first because they already received several well-deserved awards

• Barbs, Wastelands
  Marta Mateus
• Les îles
  Yann Gonzalez
• I Don’t Think I Can See an Island
  Christopher Becks and Emmanuel Lefrant
• The Burden
  Niki Lindroth von Bahr

additional entries submitted to Toronto Film Review, in no order

• Des choses comme ça
  Paul Grivas
• Lecture about the impossible adaptation of Ovid by the cinema, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Femis, December 8, 2017

This list contributes to:

• Sight & Sound Poll: Top 26 Films of 2017