Year-End Lists

Village Voice Film Poll: Best Films of 2017 (as published by The Village Voice, comprised of votes from more than 100 critics)

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1. Phantom Thread
   Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Lady Bird
   Greta Gerwig
3. Get Out
   Jordan Peele
4. Call Me by Your Name
   Luca Guadagnino
5. The Florida Project
   Sean Baker
6. Dunkirk
   Christopher Nolan
7. Personal Shopper
   Olivier Assayas
8. Nocturama
   Bertrand Bonello
9. A Quiet Passion
   Terence Davies
10. The Shape of Water
    Guillermo del Toro
11. BPM (Beats Per Minute)
    Robin Campillo
12. Twin Peaks: The Return
    David Lynch
13. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
14. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
    Martin McDonagh
15. Faces Places
    Agnès Varda and JR
15. The Lost City of Z
    James Gray
17. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
18. On the Beach at Night Alone
    Hong Sang-soo
19. Dawson City: Frozen Time
    Bill Morrison
20. The Work
    Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
21. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
22. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
    Frederick Wiseman
23. The Post
    Steven Spielberg
24. Mudbound
    Dee Rees
25. Wormwood
    Errol Morris
26. The Big Sick
    Michael Showalter
26. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
    Noah Baumbach
28. Marjorie Prime
    Michael Almereyda
29. The Square
    Ruben Östlund
30. The Death of Louis XIV
    Albert Serra
31. Columbus
    Kogonada
32. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Rian Johnson
33. Blade Runner 2049
    Denis Villeneuve
34. The Ornithologist
    João Pedro Rodrigues
35. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
    Yorgos Lanthimos
36. Raw
    Julia Ducournau
36. The Other Side of Hope
    Aki Kaurismäki
38. Thelma
    Joachim Trier
39. Graduation
    Cristian Mungiu
40. The Human Surge
    Eduardo Williams
41. Wonder Woman
    Patty Jenkins
42. Okja
    Bong Joon-ho
43. Baby Driver
    Edgar Wright
43. Loveless
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
45. I, Tonya
    Craig Gillespie
45. Logan
    James Mangold
47. Brawl in Cell Block 99
    S. Craig Zahler
47. Kedi
    Ceyda Torun
47. The Disaster Artist
    James Franco
50. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
    Angela Robinson
50. Song to Song
    Terrence Malick
50. Starless Dreams
    Mehrdad Oskouei

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Mallory Andrews: Top 10 Films of 2017
• Village Voice Film Poll: Florence Almozini: Best Films of 2017