Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: 40 Best Movies of 2017, as published by The New York Times

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1. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
2. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
4. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
5. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
6. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
7. Okja
   Bong Joon-ho
8. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins

Other Favorites

• After the Storm
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• The Big Sick
  Michael Showalter
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
  Alexandra Dean
• Call Me by Your Name
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• The Death of Louis XIV
  Albert Serra
• Escapes
  Michael Almereyda
• Girls Trip
  Malcolm D. Lee
• Good Time
  Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
  Juho Kuosmanen
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
  Chris Smith
• Kedi
  Ceyda Torun
• The Lost City of Z
  James Gray
• mother!
  Darren Aronofsky
• Mudbound
  Dee Rees
• My Journey Through French Cinema
  Bertrand Tavernier
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
  Joseph Cedar
• The Ornithologist
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• Patti Cake$
  Geremy Jasper
• Personal Shopper
  Olivier Assayas
• The Post
  Steven Spielberg
• Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
  Angela Robinson
• Quest
  Jonathan Olshefski
• Song to Song
  Terrence Malick
• Tonsler Park
  Kevin Jerome Everson
• Twin Peaks: The Return
  David Lynch
• The Woman Who Left
  Lav Diaz
• Wonderstruck
  Todd Haynes