1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi/Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi - Rian Johnson + Best 3D Movie of the Year + Best Adventure of the Year + Best American Movie of the Year + Best Blockbuster of the Year + Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Kelly Marie Tran + Most Profitable Movie of the Year
2. Dunkirk - Christopher Nolan + Best English Movie of the Year + Most Suspenseful Movie of the Year + Best War Movie of the Year
3. Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson + Most Undeserved Flop of the Year + Best Drama of the Year + Best Period Movie of the Year
4. The Post - Steven Spielberg + Best Political Movie of the Year + Best Historical Movie of the Year
5. War for the Planet of the Apes - Matt Reeves + Best Sci-Fi Movie of the Year
6. Call Me by Your Name - Luca Guadagnino + Best Romance of the Year + Sexiest Movie of the Year + Best Screen Couple of the Year: Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Timothée Chalamet + Best Italian Movie of the Year + Best Poster of the Year
7. Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig + Best Shooting Star Actor of the Year: Timothée Chalamet + Best Autobiographical Movie of the Year + Best California Movie of the Year
8. The Square - Ruben Östlund + Best Big Flop Movie of the Year + Best Societal Critique of the Year + Best Stockholm Movie of the Year + Best Swedish Movie of the Year + Best Breakthrough Actor of the Year: Claes Bang
9. It - Andy Muschietti + Best Adaptation of the Year + Best Horror Movie of the Year + Best Mega-hit Movie of the Year + Best Villain of the Year: Pennywise the Clown (Bill Skarsgård)
10. Wonder Woman - Patty Jenkins + Breakthrough Actress of the Year: Gal Gadot + Best Huge Hit Movie of the Year + Best Superhero Movie of the Year
Other great movies of the year (in alphabetical order):
The Florida Project - Sean Baker + Best Florida Movie of the Year + Best Independent Movie of the Year + Best Social Realism Movie of the Year
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh + Best Dramedy of the Year
Wonder - Stephen Chbosky + Best Family Movie of the Year + Most Deserved Hit of the Year + Best Tearjerker of the Year
Other good, recommendable movies of the year (in alphabetical order):
Beach Rats - Eliza Hittman + Best LGBT Movie of the Year + Best Youth Movie of the Year
The Greatest Showman - Michael Gracey
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - James Gunn + Best Action Movie of the Year
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
Kong: Skull Island - Jordan Vogt-Roberts + Best Kaiju Movie of the Year
mother! - Darren Aronofsky + Best Feel-Bad Movie of the Year
Murder on the Orient Express - Kenneth Branagh + Best Detective Movie of the Year
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
Thor: Ragnarok - Taika Waititi + Best Crowd-pleaser of the Year + Best Big Hit Movie of the Year
The Wife - Björn Runge
Bottom 1: The Worst Movie of 2017:
1. It Comes at Night - Trey Edward Shults
Other failed, mediocre and/or poor films (in alphabetical order):
Annabelle: Creation - David F. Sandberg
Baby Driver - Edgar Wright
Blade Runner 2049 - Denis Villeneuve + Most Expensive Flop of the Year
Logan Lucky - Steven Soderbergh
[29 titles in total]
Notes:
The first update of the 2017 lists adds 10 titles to the tally.
The year is still topped by Rian Johnson's off-the-charts amazing, emotionally riveting, best Star Wars movie to date, Star Wars: The Last Jedi; with Christopher Nolan's best movie to date, the truly intense, impressionistic WWII thriller Dunkirk and new entry Paul Thomas Anderson's masterly carved period drama Phantom Thread taking silver and bronze, respectively. The list goes on with several new entries: Steven Spielberg's powerful historical drama The Post (new entry), Matt Reeves' superbly created, affecting, adventurous War for the Planet of the Apes, Luca Guadagnino's sensuous period romance adaptation Call Me by Your Name (new entry), Greta Gerwig's autobiographical Sacramento youth ode Lady Bird (new entry), Ruben Östlund's incisive societal critique and satirical drama The Square, Andy Muschietti's seriously eerie Stephen King-adaptation It and finally Patty Jenkins' great franchise-starter Wonder Woman, - the first great female superhero movie, perhaps ever?
Some of the other remarkable films of the year include: 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, James Gunn's light-hearted, colorful escapade sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, Stephen Chbosky's heart-warming family movie Wonder, Sean Baker's Florida mother-daughter drama The Florida Project, Michael Gracey's glamorous pop musical The Greatest Showman and Martin McDonagh's tale of protest and rage, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Trey Edward Shults' ponderous, frustratingly directionless It Comes at Night still takes the cake as the year's worst, (and still 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-breaking' 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.
Biggest flops of the year:
[The loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Blade Runner 2049 - 46.32 mil. $ range
2. Phantom Thread - 16.12 mil. $ range
3. mother! - 12.2 mil. $ range
4. Logan Lucky - 9.64 mil. $ range
5. The Square - 2.06 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 86.34 mil. $
Biggest hits of the year:
[The gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films. Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi - 333 mil. $ range
2. It - 245.12 mil. $ range
3. Wonder Woman - 179.72 mil. $ range
4. Thor: Ragnarok - 161.56 mil. $ range
5. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - 145.48 mil. $ range
6. Dunkirk - 110.88 mil. $ range
7. Annabelle: Creation - 107.6 mil. $ range
8. The Greatest Showman - 89.88 mil. $ range
9. Murder on the Orient Express - 86.08 mil. $ range
10. The Shape of Water - 58.58 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 1,517.9 mil. $
2017 titles still on my watch-list:
Fist Fight, Despicable Me 3, Alien: Covenant, The Beguiled, The Third Murder, Beatriz at Dinner, Chasing Coral, Downsizing, Brad's Status, The Wound, Dolores, Trophy, May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers, Columbus, DRIB, A Prayer Before Dawn, You Were Never Really Here, The Polka King, Loveless, November, God's Own Country, Foxtrot, Girl's Trip, Flower, I Kill Giants, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Mary Shelley, The Devil and Father Amorth, Revenge, First Reformed, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, The Death of Stalin, The King, Love, Cecil, Nico, 1988, I Am Not a Witch, The Rider, Golden Exits
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?
What 2017 title/s is/are missing on the watch-list?
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