Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2017 (as voted by more than 200 critics)

The poll also has separate listings for undistributed films, foreign language films, and documentaries.

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1. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
4. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. The Shape of Water
   Guillermo del Toro
7. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
8. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
9. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
   Martin McDonagh
10. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
11. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
12. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
13. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
14. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
15. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
16. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
17. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
18. Columbus
    Kogonada
19. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
20. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
21. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
22. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
23. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
24. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
25. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
26. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
27. Logan
    James Mangold
28. Menashe
    Joshua Z Weinstein
29. Logan Lucky
    Steven Soderbergh
30. Coco
    Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina
31. Wind River
    Taylor Sheridan
32. The Beguiled
    Sofia Coppola
33. Beatriz at Dinner
    Miguel Arteta
34. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun
35. War for the Planet of the Apes
    Matt Reeves
36. Hostiles
    Scott Cooper
37. After the Storm
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
38. Your Name
    Makoto Shinkai
39. Princess Cyd
    Stephen Cone
40. Split
    M. Night Shyamalan
41. Darkest Hour
    Joe Wright
42. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee
43. It
    Andy Muschietti
44. Beach Rats
    Eliza Hittman
45. It Comes at Night
    Trey Edward Shults
46. Battle of the Sexes
    Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
47. Colossal
    Nacho Vigalondo
48. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore
    Macon Blair
49. Step
    Amanda Lipitz
50. Ingrid Goes West
    Matt Spicer