Favorite movies of 2017?

As the year comes to a close in the next few weeks, I'm interested to hear what the folks on these boards consider to be their favorites films released this year.

For me, Lady Bird, Get Out, and mother! take the cake.

Lady Bird was brilliantly executed in every aspect IMO, with especially phenomenal performances from Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

Get Out was a terrifyingly well-made social commentary which really stuck me deeply, it was constantly on my mind for days after seeing it.

mother! was perplexing, thought-provoking, and just downright weird, but I found a lot to like in it. Jennifer Lawrence never disappoints me (as an actress, that is).

Haven't seen that many but:

The Big Sick
Wonder Woman

The filmmakers of both understood exactly the kind of movie they wanted to make and delivered it with great success, in both cases working in genres that rarely produce such satisfying movies.

Some of mine include:

The Florida Project ( my favorite film of the year so far )

Ingrid Goes West

Collasal

Good Time

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Wonder Woman

GirlsTrip

Can't wait for I, Tonya, The Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name and so many more.

I think my top five in no particular order would be; Lady Bird, Get Out, Shape of Water, The Big Sick, and Call Me By Your Name.

ive forgotten a few: Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, Blade Runner, It, Beauty and the Beast, Life, the Zookeepers Wife, Coco, Star Wars.

Updated On: 12/30/17 at 02:33 PM

The ones I would describe as top-notch, still have several more to see:

Blackcoat's Daughter, The

Blade Runner 2049

Coco

Dunkirk

Gerald’s Game

Get Out

Ghost Story, A

Lady Bird

mother!

Raising Bertie

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Wonderstruck

Hork, you should join Arclight (which is free) in order to get a dollar discount on each ticket. Yeah, the prices are still $15 or $16 each but I'd happily pay that for a really good movie experience (which CALL ME BY YOUR NAME certainly is).

My top 10 so far:

10. The Florida Project

9. The Big Sick

8. The Little Hours

7. Ingrid Goes West

6. Mudbound

5. The Beguiled

4. The Meyerowitz Stories

3. Wonderstruck

2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

1. Lady Bird

Still haven't seen BPM, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, The Post, Molly's Game, or I, Tonya. I found it was a really great year for films, once again. Also, while they didn't quite crack my top 10, I really appreciated the originality seen in mother!, A Ghost Story, and Colossal. Those three films each had some of their own problems, but I found it really exciting and refreshing to see filmmakers take such big risks which mostly paid off (in my opinion) and also to see big stars lending their talents to these small movies.

Baby Driver, Get Out, The Disaster Artist.

Liked billboards, dint know where we were going and glad it landed where it did,

Just caught a screening of THE POST last night in LA-- really flummoxed how this entirely old-school dry-as-toast predictable film is on everyone's Oscar list for likely Best Picture nods. I suppose you could make an argument for Meryl's constipated turn as Katherine Graham, but even Tom Hanks failed to spark much interest with us. And the film around them had not a speck of adventurous movie-making about it, not in the score, nor the camera work, nor the shape of the story. It looked, sounded and felt like any by-the-numbers exposee of bad things in government since time immemorial. After all the smart work in BRIDGE OF SPIES, I was expecting much more.

^ Jessie Mueller was terrific-- got all the best lines in the office scenes as generally the only broad in the room.