Year-End Lists

Kenneth Turan: Best Films of 2017, as published by The Los Angeles Times

Turan has organized the films into thematic categories (“exciters,” “canny veterans,” etc.), and in each one he lists a couple of favorites and an honorable mention. The films are listed below, but see his write-up for the proper structure.

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2015 • 2012]

• The Shape of Water
  Guillermo del Toro
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Dunkirk
  Christopher Nolan
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Phantom Thread
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• Lady Bird
  Greta Gerwig
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
  Noah Baumbach
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Walking Out
  Alex & Andrew Smith
• Foxtrot
  Samuel Maoz
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• One Week and a Day
  Asaph Polonsky
• Hostiles
  Scott Cooper
• Wind River
  Taylor Sheridan
• The Ballad of Lefty Brown
  Jared Moshe
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  Martin McDonagh