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Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs: Favorite Films of 2017

20 December 2017

Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade

Ben Sachs: Favorite Films of 2017, as published by The Chicago Reader

[see also 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  2. Nocturama
    Bertrand Bonello
  3. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
    Joseph Cedar
  4. That Most Important Thing: Love
    Andrzej Zulawski
  5. Sixty Six
    Lewis Klahr
  6. Dim the Fluorescents
    Daniel Warth
  7. Nowhere to Hide
    Zaradasht Ahmed
  8. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
  9. Mimosas
    Oliver Laxe
  10. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
  11. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
  12. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
  13. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
  14. The Lovers
    Azazel Jacobs
  15. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
  16. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
  17. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
  18. In Transit
    David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
  19. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
  20. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar
  21. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
  22. Western
    Valeska Grisebach
  23. Frantz
    François Ozon
  24. The Moderns
    Marcela Matta and Mauro Sarser
  25. Get Out
    Jordan Peele

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