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2017 in films - according to Film Excess

The 10 Best Films:



1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi/Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi - Rian Johnson



2. Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan


3. The Square - Ruben Östlund



4. War for the Planet of the Apes - Matt Reeves



5. It - Andy Muschietti



6. Wonder Woman - Patty Jenkins



7. Thor: Ragnarok - Taika Waititi



8. Beach Rats - Eliza Hittman



9. Kong: Skull Island - Jordan Vogt-Roberts



10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - James Gunn

Other good, recommendable movies of the year (in alphabetical order):



The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear/Den Utrolige Historie om den Kæmpestore Pære - Amalie Næsby Fick, Jørgen Lerdam, Philip Einstein Lipski


The Killing of a Sacred Deer - Yorgos Lanthimos



mother! - Darren Aronofsky



Murder on the Orient Express - Kenneth Branagh

The Year's Worst:



1. It Comes at Night - Trey Edward Shults

Other failed, mediocre or poor films (in alphabetical order):

Annabelle: Creation - David F. Sandberg
Baby Driver - Edgar Wright
Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve
Logan Lucky - Steven Soderbergh

[19 titles in total]


Notes:

With just 19 2017-released titles reviewed yet, the first appraisal of the year in movies (no 2017 TV-series, documentaries or shorts reviewed yet) is admittedly slight, overlooking most worthwhile - as well as awful - titles of the year. But these will follow in the coming updates to the 2017 lists, the first one arriving in about a year.
2017 did already deliver 4 masterpieces that were all phenomenal cinema experiences as well: Rian Johnson's off-the-charts amazing, emotionally riveting, best Star Wars movie to date, Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Christopher Nolan's best movie to date, the truly intense, impressionistic WWII thriller Dunkirk; Swede Ruben Östlund's incisive societal critique and satirical drama The Square, and finally Matt Reeves' superbly created, affecting, adventurous War for the Planet of the Apes.
These are followed by Andy Muschietti's seriously eerie Stephen King-adaptation It; Patty Jenkins' great franchise-starter Wonder Woman, - the first great female superhero movie, perhaps ever? The list is rounded off with some of the year's good pics: Taika Waititi's disarming, stylish Thor: Ragnarok, Eliza Hittman's engrossing youth sex drama Beach Rats, Jordan Vogt-Roberts' gleeful Kaiju FX-actioner Kong: Skull Island and finally James Gunn's light-hearted, colorful escapade sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2.
As is obvious, the big Hollywood studios showered us with some welcome, satisfying escapism this year.
Trey Edward Shults' ponderous, frustratingly directionless It Comes at Night takes the cake for now as the year's worst, (and only downright bad 2017 film seen so far.)
Among the greats who served something under my expectations this year are master filmmaker Steven Soderbergh with his 'retirement'-breaker heist dramedy Logan Lucky, Canadian master filmmaker Denis Villeneuve with his huge-budgeted, impressive but ultimately cluttered Blade Runner 2049 and British great filmmaker Edgar Wright with his teen-focused, perfunctory Ansel Elgort love-letter Baby Driver.

Previous annual lists:
  

2016 in films - according to Film Excess
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
 

2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II] 
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess

2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I] 
2013 in films - according to Film Excess
   

2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess

2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess

2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess  

2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2009 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 


What do you think of the 2017 lists?
What are your favorite and least favorite 2017 titles?

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