Year In ReView: Our 10 favorite films of 2017

For all of the shit that's been slung at us over the course of 2017, it's been an absolutely incredible year for cinema, and it was nearly impossible to whittle the over-175 movies I've seen this year down to 10 favorites. Normally people put phrases like that at the start of a year-end list, but it's not just bullshit. From The Disaster Artist to Logan to Mudbound to Dunkirk to Professor Marston and the Wonder Women to Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Blade Runner 2049 to Stronger and plenty more, there were some great fucking movies that I left off this list and I'm so grateful to have seen them all. But here's 10 that I think are the truly essential and interesting films of the year, and are my personal favorites from 2017.

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Lady Bird

In a year already full of great debuts by actors-turned-filmmakers (see Peele, Jordan), Greta Gerwig might have had the best one of all. Lady Bird is an achingly felt and beautifully funny little film about growing up in the early aughts, and it features a truly dynamite performance from Saoirse Ronan as well as an excellent and stacked supporting cast. It’s got some of the year’s best lines and moments (the “I’ll kill your whole fucking family” scene never fails to make me chuckle) and it’s got an earnest heart that meshes nicely with its oftentimes unsparing look at adolescence; it’s hard not to cringe, as well, having done musical theater in high school, when Lady Bird and her friends perform in a Sondheim musical. More of this, please.

Here’s my review from November.

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