Best Movies of 2017
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Phantom ThreadA couture melodrama that turns out to be a comedy about poisoning your husband to keep him.Read the review
Wind RiverSheridan turns a procedural into a study of grief in a landscape that kills, and the speeches are the only thing holding it back.
Lady BirdA mother and daughter who cannot stop fighting because they are the same person.
Blade Runner 2049The most beautiful studio film of its decade, wrapped around a story that ambles.
Wonder WomanNo Man's Land is the best single scene in any of these films, and the sincerity around it earns it.
DunkirkThree timelines, almost no dialogue, and the most physical war film Nolan will ever make.
Thor: RagnarokWaititi throws out two films of continuity and rebuilds Thor as a comedy, which turns out to be what he was always for.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriMcDormand and Rockwell are extraordinary in a script that cannot decide what it thinks.
Spider-Man: HomecomingA high school movie first and a superhero film second, with the best twist reveal ever staged in a parked car.
Call Me by Your NameA summer romance filmed like a memory, ending on the year's most devastating fireplace.