The 30 Best Films of 2017 reflect a cinematic year bursting with urgency, originality, and emotional depth. In a time of political unrest and cultural reckoning, filmmakers responded with bold visions, daring narratives, and stories that resonated on both personal and societal levels. From intimate indie breakthroughs to ambitious studio triumphs, 2017 proved that film could be both a mirror to the moment and a timeless escape.
This was the year of Get Out, a genre-defying sensation that reimagined horror as a sharp critique of race and privilege, and Lady Bird, a coming-of-age tale brimming with authenticity and heart. Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk delivered a visceral, time-bending war epic, while Call Me by Your Name offered a sun-drenched exploration of first love and longing. 2017 was a year when emotional honesty, technical innovation, and fearless storytelling took center stage, creating a body of work that continues to inspire and challenge.
Our rankings are based on critical acclaim, audience response, and lasting cultural impact. These are the movies that challenged norms, inspired conversation, and reminded us of cinema’s power to surprise, move, and transform. As we count down, we invite you to rediscover the 30 films that defined 2017—works that continue to echo years later, and stand as enduring examples of great storytelling.
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Top10nerScore71.801 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Lynne Ramsay
WRITERS: Lynne Ramsay
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Thomas Townend
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Judith Roberts, John Doman
GENRE: Drama, Crime, Thriller
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama, Psychological Thriller
THEME: Vigilante
A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
You Were Never Really Here turns vengeance into a ghost story, unraveling a hitman’s fractured psyche with brutal precision and lyrical restraint. Ramsay’s impressionistic direction favors mood over exposition, while Phoenix disappears into a role shaped by grief, violence, and the soul-sick burden of survival.
Top10nerScore72.093 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Kogonada
WRITERS: Kogonada
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Elisha Christian
STARRING: Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Michelle Forbes, Rory Culkin, Parker Posey
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana – a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
In Columbus, emotional distance is shaped by architectural beauty and framed by poetic stillness. Kogonada’s debut lingers with care, using space and silence to explore identity, grief, and belonging. With restrained performances and luminous imagery, it reveals how noticing the world can help us understand ourselves.
Top10nerScore72.218 / 100
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DIRECTORS: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman
WRITERS: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman, Jacek Dehnel
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tristan Oliver, Łukasz Żal
STARRING: Douglas Booth, Robert Gulaczyk, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Jerome Flynn
GENRE: Animation, Drama, Mystery
SUB-GENRE: Biopic, Period Drama
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Loving Vincent transforms art history into a vivid detective story, exploring the shadowy details of Van Gogh’s death through 65,000 oil-painted frames. Mirroring the artist’s restless brushwork, it’s a bold experiment where every scene breathes with longing, mystery, and the aching beauty of how he saw the world.
Top10nerScore72.299 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Michael Showalter
WRITERS: Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Brian Burgoyne
STARRING: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Zenobia Shroff, Anupam Kher, Aidy Bryant, Bo Burnham
GENRE: Comedy, Romance, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Romantic Comedy
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family’s expectations, and his true feelings.
The Big Sick is a quietly revolutionary rom-com that balances immigrant experience with biting humor and emotional authenticity. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s script is both deeply personal and universally relatable, capturing how love evolves through illness, cultural tension, and unexpected human connection.
Top10nerScore72.456 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Edgar Wright
WRITERS: Edgar Wright
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bill Pope
STARRING: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Jon Bernthal
GENRE: Crime, Action
SUB-GENRE: Heist Film
THEME: Music
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Baby Driver rewires the heist film into a music-fueled character study, where style and sound collide with substance. Edgar Wright crafts a symphony of motion and emotion, as Baby’s quiet resolve and thundering playlists drive a pulse-pounding tale of crime, conscience, and rhythm-fueled rebellion with cinematic flair.
Top10nerScore72.720 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Taylor Sheridan
WRITERS: Taylor Sheridan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ben Richardson
STARRING: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Gil Birmingham, Kelsey Asbille, Graham Greene, Jon Bernthal
GENRE: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
THEME: Police Procedural
A wildlife officer, who is haunted by a tragedy that happened because of him, teams up with an FBI agent in solving a murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation and hopes to get redemption from his past regrets.
Wind River fuses sharp procedural storytelling with raw emotional power, anchored by Jeremy Renner’s stoic gravitas and Elizabeth Olsen’s quiet intensity. Sheridan’s script slices through the silence to expose systemic neglect on Native lands, delivering a thriller that’s as urgent, somber, and starkly beautiful as its wintry setting.
Top10nerScore72.775 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Nora Twomey
WRITERS: Anita Doron, Deborah Ellis
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sheldon Lisoy
STARRING: Saara Chaudry, Ali Badshah, Laara Sadiq, Soma Bhatia, Shaista Latif, Noorin Gulamgaus
GENRE: Animation, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama
Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives under Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001. After the wrongful arrest of her father, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy to support her family. Working alongside a friend, she soon discovers a new world of freedom and danger.
The Breadwinner is a visually stunning and emotionally searing tale of resilience, where Parvana’s courage under Taliban rule becomes a beacon of hope. Blending Afghan folklore with political urgency, Nora Twomey crafts a poignant, richly layered narrative that honors the power of stories to survive oppression.
Top10nerScore72.870 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro
WRITERS: Vanessa Taylor, Guillermo del Toro
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dan Laustsen
STARRING: Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg
GENRE: Fantasy, Romance, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Low Fantasy
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
The Shape of Water is a spellbinding aquatic fairytale that drifts between Cold War paranoia and sensual fantasy with hypnotic grace. Del Toro channels Creature Feature nostalgia into a haunting, tender ode to love beyond language, anchored by Alexandre Desplat’s swelling score and Sally Hawkins’ luminous, wordless performance.
Top10nerScore73.110 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Masaaki Yuasa
WRITERS: Makoto Ueda
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Batiste Perron
STARRING: Kana Hanazawa, Gen Hoshino, Hiroshi Kamiya, Junichi Suwabe, Ami Koshimizu
STARRING (ENGLISH): Jackie Lastra, Kellen Goff, Eddy Lee, Patrick Seitz, Paul Guyet
GENRE: Animation, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, Surrealism
SUB-GENRE: Anime, Romantic Comedy, Magical Realism
THEME: Coming-of-Age
A boy falls in love with his junior in a Kyoto college club, and struggles daily to be noticed by her. However, she is naive and unsophisticated and is completely indifferent to him.
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl is a kaleidoscopic odyssey through Kyoto nightlife, where time stretches, logic dissolves, and anything feels possible. Masaaki Yuasa’s fluid, eccentric animation and jazz-infused chaos mirror the intoxicating unpredictability of youth, love, and the strange magic of one extraordinary night.
Top10nerScore73.114 / 100
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DIRECTOR: David Lowery
WRITERS: David Lowery
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Andrew Droz Palermo
STARRING: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, Grover Coulson
GENRE: Fantasy, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Low Fantasy
THEME: Haunted House
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
With A Ghost Story, David Lowery transforms a simple haunting into a profound reflection on time, legacy, and the emotional residue we leave behind. Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck evoke sorrow without spectacle in this minimalist, transcendent elegy that dares to ask what truly remains after everything fades to silence.
Top10nerScore73.241/ 100
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DIRECTOR: Jang Hoon
WRITERS: Eom Yu-na, Jo Seul-yeah
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Go Rak-sun
STARRING: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hai-jin, Ryu Jun-yeol, Park Hyuk-kwon, Choi Gwi-hwa
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama, Political Drama
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
A Taxi Driver captures the 1980 Gwangju Uprising with gripping clarity, blending political unrest and personal awakening into a powerful narrative. Song Kang-ho delivers a tour-de-force as a reluctant everyman pulled into history, while Jang Hoon’s direction crafts a rousing, empathetic ode to truth, sacrifice, and unexpected heroism.
Top10nerScore73.553 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Taika Waititi
WRITERS: Craig Kyle, Christopher L. Yost, Eric Pearson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Javier Aguirresarobe
STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins
GENRE: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
THEME: Superhero
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of a powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Thor: Ragnarok shatters Asgardian gloom with a neon blast of cosmic absurdity, reinventing the God of Thunder as a quippy, self-aware space gladiator. Waititi’s fearless direction, paired with Led Zeppelin riffs and Jack Kirby-inspired visuals, delivers a joyous rebellion against Marvel monotony while embracing the weird with full-hearted flair.
Top10nerScore73.876 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Robin Campillo
WRITERS: Philippe Mangeot, Robin Campillo
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jeanne Lapoirie
STARRING: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama, Political Drama
THEME: LGBTQ+
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
BPM (Beats per Minute) surges with life and urgency, capturing the pulse of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s through a whirlwind of protest, passion, and personal loss. Robin Campillo directs with raw intimacy and political fire, transforming activism into choreography and grief into a rallying cry that resonates with defiant hope and human resilience.
Top10nerScore74.691 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Andrey Zvyagintsev
WRITERS: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mikhail Krichman
STARRING: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Alexey Fateev, Marina Vasilyeva
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
Loveless is a chilling portrait of emotional decay, where a missing child becomes a mirror for a fractured society unraveling at the seams. Andrey Zvyagintsev crafts every frame with icy precision, exposing the quiet devastation of apathy through haunting compositions and a silence that echoes louder than screams.
Top10nerScore74.695 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Francis Lee
WRITERS: Francis Lee
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joshua James Richards
STARRING: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secăreanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
GENRE: Romance, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
THEME: LGBTQ+
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
God’s Own Country captures raw emotion with striking intimacy, portraying love blooming in the windswept Yorkshire hills. With naturalistic performances, a quietly poetic script, and Francis Lee’s visceral direction, it becomes a tender, mud-caked romance that feels both quietly revolutionary and deeply rooted in place and identity.
Top10nerScore75.472 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Chloé Zhao
WRITERS: Chloé Zhao
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joshua James Richards
STARRING: Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Lane Scott, Terri Dawn Pourier
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Neo-Western
Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.
In The Rider, Chloé Zhao crafts a raw, reflective ode to life after loss, where rodeo dreams collide with physical limitation and spiritual reckoning. With non-actors playing themselves and South Dakota’s sweeping landscapes evoking memory and myth, it becomes a meditation on masculinity, freedom, and inner grace.
Top10nerScore76.058 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Shinichiro Ueda
WRITERS: Shinichiro Ueda
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Takeshi Sone
STARRING: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Shuhama, Mao
GENRE: Comedy, Postmodernism
SUB-GENRE: Horror Comedy
THEME: Zombie
Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.
One Cut of the Dead is a masterclass in narrative sleight of hand, using its faux-zombie premise to reveal a joyous tribute to scrappy, passionate filmmaking. What starts as a one-take gimmick blossoms into a layered, hilarious, and unexpectedly moving celebration of storytelling, teamwork, and the beautiful mess behind the scenes.
Top10nerScore76.124 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
WRITERS: Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sean Price Williams
STARRING: Robert Pattinson, Ben Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh
GENRE: Crime, Thriller, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Heist Film
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City’s underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Good Time unspools like a panic attack in real time, marrying gritty realism with nerve-fraying intensity. Pattinson is electric as Connie, a hustler spiraling through Queens’ underbelly. The Safdies craft a raw, adrenalized portrait of brotherhood, delusion, and decay, where time is always running out and redemption feels just out of reach.
Top10nerScore76.327 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Paul Schrader
WRITERS: Paul Schrader
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alexander Dynan
STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama
THEME: Religious Film
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
First Reformed grips like a silent scream, with Schrader’s austere framing, long takes, and minimalist aesthetic evoking a sacred cinema of dread. Hawke’s riveting performance anchors the film, his despair etched into every gesture. It’s a rigorously controlled, formally daring reckoning with spiritual inertia, modern sin, and apocalyptic anxiety.
Top10nerScore76.839 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Martin McDonagh
WRITERS: Martin McDonagh
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ben Davis
STARRING: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Lucas Hedges, Caleb Landry Jones, John Hawkes
GENRE: Drama, Black Comedy
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town’s revered chief of police.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a scorching portrait of grief, rage, and resilience, anchored by McDormand’s volcanic performance. McDonagh blends blistering dialogue, moral ambiguity, and bruised humanity into a deeply provocative story that refuses easy answers and smolders with dark, unshakable power.
Top10nerScore76.884 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
WRITERS: Christopher Nolan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hoyte van Hoytema
STARRING: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan, Harry Styles, Tom Glynn-Carney, Aneurin Barnard
GENRE: Drama
THEME: War, Hyperlink Cinema
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Dunkirk redefines the war film as pure sensation, capturing survival, sacrifice, and solidarity through ticking clocks, silent stares, and elemental storytelling. Nolan eschews sentimentality for precision and poetry, crafting a haunting symphony of land, sea, and air where every moment pulses with quiet, resilient heroism.
Top10nerScore78.700 / 100
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DIRECTOR: James Mangold
WRITERS: James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Mathieson
STARRING: Hugh Jackman, Dafne Keen, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E. Grant
GENRE: Action, Science Fiction
SUB-GENRE: Neo-Western
THEME: Superhero, Road Movie
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Logan is a brutal elegy for the superhero genre, slicing through tropes with raw emotion, Western grit, and a sense of finality. Hugh Jackman gives a soul-worn performance as Wolverine, while James Mangold crafts a violent yet tender road tale that feels more Cormac McCarthy than comic book, echoing the loneliness of a fading legend.
Top10nerScore79.410 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Greta Gerwig
WRITERS: Greta Gerwig
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sam Levy
STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Lois Smith, Stephen McKinley Henderson
GENRE: Drama, Comedy
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
Lady Bird is a beautifully observed symphony of adolescence, where every awkward silence, sharp retort, and quiet revelation sings with emotional truth. Greta Gerwig crafts a heartfelt portrait of identity, faith, and family, with Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf turning mother-daughter tension into something raw, resonant, and luminous.
Top10nerScore80.609 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Sean Baker
WRITERS: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alexis Zabe
STARRING: Brooklynn Kimberly Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Rivera, Valeria Cotto, Mela Murder
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Slice of Life
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
The Florida Project finds wonder in the margins, where innocence collides with poverty just miles from the manufactured joy of Disney World. With tender humanity, vivid cinematography, and a quietly moving turn from Willem Dafoe, Sean Baker delivers a bittersweet, deeply empathetic portrait of resilience and forgotten lives.
Top10nerScore82.009 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve
WRITERS: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Jared Leto, Dave Bautista
GENRE: Science Fiction, Mystery
SUB-GENRE: Cyberpunk, Neo-Noir, Tech-Noir
THEME: Dystopian, Artificial Intelligence
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Blade Runner 2049 is a hypnotic sci-fi elegy, expanding the original’s questions of identity with haunting beauty. Denis Villeneuve crafts a neon-lit dreamscape, where Roger Deakins’ cinematography and Hans Zimmer’s score fuse into a sensory epic that contemplates memory, meaning, and what it means to be real.
Top10nerScore82.756 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Luca Guadagnino
WRITERS: James Ivory
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
STARRING: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel
GENRE: Romance, Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age, LGBTQ+
A slowly ripening, tentative romance blooms between Elio, an American teen on the verge of discovering himself, and Oliver, the handsome older grad student whom his professor father has invited to their Italian vacation home over the course of a summer.
Call Me by Your Name shimmers with sun-soaked sensuality, capturing the beauty and ache of first love with aching precision. Guadagnino’s lush direction, Sufjan Stevens’ haunting melodies, and Chalamet’s vulnerable brilliance transform a summer in 1983 Italy into a timeless, bittersweet ode to desire, memory, and identity.
Top10nerScore82.780 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Paul King
WRITERS: Paul King, Simon Farnaby
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Erik Wilson
STARRING: Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent
GENRE: Comedy, Adventure
SUB-GENRE: Live-Action Animation
THEME: Family, Fable
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Paddington 2 is a rare sequel that outshines its original, blending Chaplin-esque slapstick with a gentle philosophy of kindness and resilience. With lush storybook visuals, razor-sharp humor, and a show-stealing Hugh Grant, it’s a marmalade-sweet triumph that transforms simple civility into cinematic magic with real emotional depth.
Top10nerScore82.857 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson
WRITERS: Paul Thomas Anderson
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville, Camilla Rutherford
GENRE: Romance, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama, Psychological Drama
Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
Phantom Thread stitches a haunting love story into the fabric of 1950s couture, where Daniel Day-Lewis’s meticulous Reynolds Woodcock meets his match in Alma’s quiet, but unshakable defiance. PTA crafts a film as precise and poisonous as a needle’s point, where elegance masks obsession and every glance conceals a battle of wills.
Top10nerScore83.410 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Lee Unkrich
WRITERS: Matthew Aldrich, Adrian Molina
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matt Aspbury, Danielle Feinberg
STARRING: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renee Victor, Jaime Camil, Alfonso Arau, Herbert Siguenza, Gabriel Iglesias
GENRE: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Computer Animation, Portal Fantasy, Family Drama
THEME: Music, Family
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events.
Coco is a vibrant celebration of family, memory, and music, rooted deeply in Mexican tradition and the spirit of Día de los Muertos. With stunning visuals, a hauntingly beautiful score, and heartfelt storytelling, Pixar crafts a joyful, tear-streaked journey through the Land of the Dead that honors ancestry with soulful resonance and genuine love.
Top10nerScore85.493 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Jordan Peele
WRITERS: Jordan Peele
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Denson Baker, Toby Oliver
STARRING: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, LaKeith Stanfield, Betty Gabriel, Marcus Henderson, Lil Rel Howery, Stephen Root
GENRE: Horror, Satire, Thriller, Mystery
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Horror, Psychological Thriller
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Get Out is a razor-sharp social thriller that peels back suburban niceties to reveal a chilling undercurrent of systemic racism and liberal hypocrisy. Jordan Peele blends psychological horror with biting satire, crafting a nerve-rattling debut that’s as intellectually provocative as it is viscerally terrifying, endlessly rewatchable, and ultimately stands as…
The Best Film of 2017
| Bad Genius | 2017 |
| Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion | 2017 |
| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | 2017 |
| Custody | 2017 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 |
| I, Tonya | 2017 |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | 2017 |
| Lucky | 2017 |
| Mudbound | 2017 |
| Okja | 2017 |
| On Body and Soul | 2017 |
| Only the Brave | 2017 |
| Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 |
| The Death of Stalin | 2017 |
| The Disaster Artist | 2017 |
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 |
| The Lego Batman Movie | 2017 |
| The Square | 2017 |
| War for the Planet of the Apes | 2017 |
| Wonder | 2017 |
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