So I finally saw Loveless, the one film I thought I had to see before I could put together a ranking of all the 2017 films I saw, which can also serve as an index of my reviews. I still have a few I’m waiting to see in theaters or on demand, including The Insult, Foxtrot, In the Fade, The Other Side of Hope, and Mary and the Witch’s Flower, which I’ll add to this post when I see & review them. I have seen all nine Academy Award for Best Picture nominees, all five Best Animated Feature nominees, all five Best Documentary Feature nominees, and four of the five Best Foreign Language Film nominees. All links go to my reviews on this site; there are a few animated films I never bothered to review near the bottom.
1. The Florida Project.
2. Dunkirk.
3. Loveless.
4. A Fantastic Woman.
5. The Shape of Water.
6. Columbus.
7. Phantom Thread.
8. The Big Sick.
9. Call Me By Your Name.
10. Get Out
11. Logan Lucky.
12. The Girl Without Hands.
13. Lady Bird.
14. On Body and Soul.
15. City of Ghosts.
16. The Sense of an Ending.
17. Coco.
18. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
19. In This Corner of the World.
20. A Ghost Story.
21. The Wound.
22. Icarus.
23. The Breadwinner.
24. Faces Places.
25. I, Tonya.
26. Graduation.
27. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.
28. Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
29. Dealt.
30. Marjorie Prime.
31. Ethel & Ernest.
32. Our Souls at Night.
33. Last Men in Aleppo.
34. The Square.
35. I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
36. The Beguiled.
37. The Lego Batman Movie.
38. The Post.
39. Loving Vincent.
40. Darkest Hour.
41. War Machine.
42. In Search of Israeli Cuisine.
43. Good Time.
44. The Lost City of Z.
45. Ferdinand.
46. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children.
47. Strong Island.
48. Baby Driver.
49. My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea.
50. Boss Baby.
Biggest news here is Boss Baby is a top 50 film.
I really enjoyed Baby Driver while I was watching it but at the same time thought “There will be a lot of people I respect who hate this”. So not surprised it’s low on your list, although shocked to see it below Ferdinand. Even my three-year-old (who was captivated by Coco) turned around to me halfway through Ferdinand and asked me why it was so long.
But a good year for movies overall.
Ferdinand was definitely too long by about a half an hour, and utterly ridiculous in parts. But I’d say the same about Baby Driver, which was also, in my view, needlessly violent.
Agreed though – great year for movies. Seems like there are probably 15-20 other very good to great films I haven’t even seen.
No Blade Runner or Planet of the Apes?
Nope.
I noticed you don’t have any of the Super hero movies listed, and some with good reason. It’s a mixed bag, but Marvel seems to be creating a never before seen experience as a movie fan. It is a greater universe than Star Wars or Star Trek franchises. Marvel writers give their characters so much depth and intriguing story lines to them individually as well as making them part of something greater. These are not just super hero movies, they are flicks which provide a fascinating story that includes “Super Heroes”, and they are funny. Have you seen any of the Marvel movies or do you avoid the entire genre?
Everything I saw from last year is on this list. I don’t particularly care for big action movies as a general rule.
I watched Logan Lucky largely based on your positive review, and I feel like we must have watched two completely different movies.
Subjectivity is subjective and all, but I found the jokes to be predictable, sentimentality to be smeared on, and the plot to be unnecessarily “twisty” in a way that is never really explained.
Sorry to hear that.
I know you don’t really care for big action movies but any plans to see “Logan” at all? I thought it was,easily, the best “superhero” movie yet.
No interest, sorry.
Agree with you on Baby Driver and Columbus. Also glad to see a rational slotting for Three Billboards — reactionary Woke Film Twitter is in full backlash mode on that one. I liked Good Time and I Don’t Feel at Home more than you, The Shape of Water and A Ghost Story less. My favorite movie of last year was Raw, which I thought you also saw but maybe I’m misremembering.
Definitely not seeing Raw given the subject matter.
Good for you to see 50 movies. Assuming there may even be more.
I am a little obsessive about round numbers and milestones. This wasn’t too hard though, given how much was already on streaming by February.
You obviously didn’t see Wonder.
That is correct. This is every 2017 movie I saw. If I had seen it, it would have been on the list.