2017 was perhaps the best year of the 2010s for movies. Not only did the year include many of the decade’s best movies, there was a depth to the amount of releases that were quality. This “best of” list was harder than nearly any year surrounding it – consisting of a healthy mix of auteur projects and blockbusters. A few of my favorite directors (Sean Baker, Luca Guadagnino, Greta Gerwig to name a few) released their best movies in 2017. It was a year of discovery, and these are my 25 favorite movie discoveries of 2017:
25. Thelma

24. Baby Driver

23. The Beguiled

22. The Post

21. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

20. The Other Side of Hope

19. The Shape of Water

18. John Wick: Chapter 2

17. The Meyerowitz Stories

16. The Lego Batman Movie

15. Nathan for You: Finding Frances

14. The Death of Stalin

13. Columbus

12. Logan Lucky

11. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

10. The Trip to Spain

9. Phantom Thread

8. Good Time

7. A Ghost Story

6. Get Out

5. Lady Bird

4. Only the Brave

3. Dunkirk

Dunkirk may just be Christopher Nolan’s most improbable and precise movie. A technical revelation that feels like the stretched out third act of a war epic. All this time later, nothing has aged poorly in this cinematic achievement.
Read Cinephile Corner’s review of Dunkirk
2. Call Me By Your Name

1. The Florida Project

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