With the end of 2017 in sight it is time to start thinking about our favourite movies of the year. Or more accurately, it’s time to frantically cram as many more in as we possibly can before 31 December. But which have been your favourites?
Every year, I like to poll as many people as I can for their Top 10 – and 1 worst – films of the year, to reach an overall consensus about what my friends like. Too often, I get so caught up looking at what other critics have picked, or what the various awards bodies are voting for, that it is easy to lose track of the films that everyone else has been watching and enjoying.
Did Dunkirk leave you weeping on the beaches? Or Wonder Woman have you whooping in the trenches? Has Star Wars: The Last Jedi given you a new hope, or were you more suited to Justice League? Did Get Out have you coming back for more? Or did Blade Runner 2049 have you questioning your own identity? Or was it something smaller, more arthouse, more foreign that stole your heart. I want to know.
What qualifies as a 2017 film? Simply, if it was a new film that opened theatrically in your country during 2017, it counts. If you saw it at a festival this year, it also counts. If it made its debut on a VOD platform within the past 12 months, then yes, you can also include it.
If you want to participate, simply leave your Top 10 films – and 1 worst – of 2017 in the comments below before Christmas Day, I’ll collate the results and publish your definitive Top 10 of 2017 by New Year. Can’t think of 10? Leave a Top 5. Just let me know your favourites…but also, if that’s true, you really need to watch more movies!
The year’s not over and I hope to catch up on some before January, but as of right now:
BEST
1- mother!
2- Coco
3- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
4- Wind River
5- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
6- I Am Not Your Negro
7- 20th Century Women
8- L7: Pretend We’re Dead
9- Okja
10- Logan
WORST – Nerdland
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Best!
01. Blame!
02. Kizumonogatari III
03. Pieles
04. Mother!
05. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
06. Fist & Faith
07. Véronica (the Algara/Martinez-Beltran one)
08. T2 Trainspotting
09. Two Pigeons
10. Love off the Cuff
Worst!
01. Wonder Woman
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Best:
01. The Day After
02. Baby Driver
03. Get Out
04. Toni Erdmann
05. Dunkirk
06. Lady Macbeth
07. Silence
08. Blade Runner 2049
09. Aquarius
10. Moonlight
Worst:
01. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
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1. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
2. A Man Called Ove
3. Land of Mine
4. Clash
5. Elle
6. T2 Trainspotting
7. The Lego Batman Movie
8. Raw
9. My Life as a Courgette
10. Jawbone 2017
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1. Dunkirk
2. Coco
3. Hidden Figures
4. Baby Driver
5. Thor: Ragnorak
6. Dancer (about Sergei Polunin) (is this a 2016 film haha – I watched it on a CX flight so I guess it doesn’t quite count…)
7. The Big Sick
8. Okja
9. Black Code
10. Ingrid Goes West
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Have thoroughly enjoyed your reviews through out 2017 (as ever).
My top ten (in no particular order):
Victoria and Abdul
Going in Style
Spider-Man
Dunkirk
Wonder Woman
The Founder
T2 (Trainspotting 2)
Logan
Jumanii
Lego Batman
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 gets my vote for worst. A bit harsh, but I was so excited by this film and was expecting much more.
PS – I deliberately left Star Wars out as I’m still not quite sure what I make of it.
Looking forward to your reviews in 2018!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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