Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2017

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1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
3. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
4. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
5. Good Time
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
6. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
7. The Lost City of Z
   James Gray
8. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
   Robin Campillo
9. Dawson City: Frozen Time
   Bill Morrison
10. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
11. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
12. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
13. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
14. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
15. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
16. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
17. Tempestad
    Tatiana Huezo
18. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei
19. The Salesman
    Asghar Farhadi
20. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
21. Behemoth
    Zhao Liang
22. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
23. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
24. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
26. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
27. Slack Bay
    Bruno Dumont
28. In Transit
    David Usui, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, and Albert Maysles
29. Columbus
    Kogonada
30. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
31. Rat Film
    Theo Anthony
32. God’s Own Country
    Francis Lee
33. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
34. 4 Days in France
    Jérôme Reybaud
35. Hermia & Helena
    Matías Piñeiro
36. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
37. Son of Joseph
    Eugène Green
38. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
39. Paraguay Remembered
    Dominique Dubosc
40. Person to Person
    Dustin Guy Defa
41. I Called Him Morgan
    Kasper Collin
42. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
    Juho Kuosmanen
43. Mister Universo
    Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
44. The Human Surge
    Eduardo Williams
45. The Red Turtle
    Michael Dudok de Wit
46. Dunkirk
    Christopher Nolan
47. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo
    Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
48. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
49. Wet Woman in the Wind
    Akihiko Shiota
50. Harmonium
    Kôji Fukada