Sight & Sound 2017

1. Get Out

USA
Jordan Peele

Lists: Film Comment (4, 2017) | New York Times (5 - Dargis / 3 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Sundance (Secret Screening, 2017)

2. Twin Peaks: The Return

USA
David Lynch

Lists: Cinema Scope (1, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings - episodes 1 & 2, 2017)

3. Call Me by Your Name

Italy, France
Luca Guadagnino

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama Special, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Sundance (Premieres, 2017) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

4. Zama

Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Portugal, USA
Lucrecia Martel

Lists: Cinema Scope (3, 2017) | Film Comment (1, 2018) | New York Times (4 - Dargis, 2018)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (A History of Shadows, 2018) | Toronto (Masters, 2017) | Venice (Out of Competition, 2017)

5. Western

Germany, Bulgaria
Valeska Grisebach

Lists: Cinema Scope (2, 2017) | Film Comment (5, 2018)

Festivals: Berlin (LOLA at Berlinale, 2018) | Cannes (Un Certain Regard, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Voices, 2018) | Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema, 2017)

6. Faces Places

Visages villages
France
Agnès Varda, JR

Lists: Film Comment (8, 2017) | New York Times (3 - Dargis / 5 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017)

7. Good Time

USA
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Lists: Cinema Scope (6, 2017) | Film Comment (1, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | Locarno (Piazza Grande, 2017)

8. Loveless

Nelyubov
Russia, France, Belgium, Germany
Andrey Zvyagintsev

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017)

9. Dunkirk

UK, USA, France, Netherlands
Christopher Nolan

Lists: New York Times (1 - Dargis, 2017)

9. The Florida Project

USA
Sean Baker

Lists: Film Comment (13, 2017) | New York Times (4 - Dargis / 1 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

11. A Ghost Story

USA
David Lowery

Festivals: Sundance (Premieres, 2017)

12. BPM (Beats Per Minute)

120 battements par minute
France
Robin Campillo

Lists: Film Comment (19, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

12. Lady Macbeth

UK
William Oldroyd

Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2017) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2017) | Toronto (Platform, 2016)

12. You Were Never Really Here

UK, USA, France
Lynne Ramsay

Lists: Film Comment (16, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2017) | Sundance (Spotlight, 2018)

15. God’s Own Country

UK
Francis Lee

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2017) | Sundance (World Cinema Dramatic Competition, 2017)

16. Personal Shopper

France
Olivier Assayas

Lists: Film Comment (3, 2017)

Festivals: Cannes (Competition, 2016) | New York (Main Slate, 2016) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2016)

16. The Shape of Water

USA
Guillermo del Toro

Festivals: Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017) | Venice (In Competition, 2017)

16. Strong Island

USA, Denmark
Yance Ford

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2017) | Locarno (Histoire(s) du Cinema, 2017) | Sundance (US Documentary Competition, 2017)

19. I Am Not Your Negro

USA, France
Raoul Peck

Lists: New York Times (6 - Dargis, 2016 / 4 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Panorama, 2017) | New York (Spotlight on Documentary, 2016) | Toronto (Documentaries, 2016)

19. Lady Bird

USA
Greta Gerwig

Lists: Film Comment (10, 2017) | New York Times (6 - Dargis / 2 - Scott, 2017)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Rotterdam (Limelight, 2018) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017)

19. Let the Sunshine In

Un beau soleil intérieur
France
Claire Denis

Lists: Film Comment (7, 2018) | New York Times (6 - Scott, 2018)

Festivals: Cannes (Directors' Fortnight, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017)

19. Moonlight

USA
Barry Jenkins

Lists: Cinema Scope (Special Mention, 2016) | Film Comment (2, 2016) | New York Times (3 - Dargis / 1 - Scott, 2016)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2016) | Rotterdam (Black Rebels, 2017) | Telluride (2016) | Toronto (Platform, 2016)

19. Mother!

USA
Darren Aronofsky

Festivals: Toronto (Special Presentations, 2017) | Venice (In Competition, 2017)

19. Mudbound

USA
Dee Rees

Lists: Film Comment (18, 2017)

Festivals: New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Sundance (Premieres, 2017) | Toronto (Gala Presentations, 2017)

25. The Other Side of Hope

Toivon tuolla puolen
Finland, Germany
Aki Kaurismäki

Lists: Film Comment (12, 2017)

Festivals: Berlin (Competition, 2017) | New York (Main Slate, 2017) | Telluride (2017) | Toronto (Masters, 2017)

25. Silence

USA, Taiwan, Mexico
Martin Scorsese

Lists: Cinema Scope (10, 2016)