Best films of 2017 (yes, 2017)

After more than a month of working from home and practicing social distancing, my semester is nearly over. By the end of this week, all my grades will be recorded. I have a bit of service to do over that following week, but then my 2019-2020 academic obligations will be met.

The University also announced this past week that May will be another month of working from home. Because I won't have to think about classes on nights or weekends (no reading, producing PowerPoints, grading, or watching assigned films), I'm planning my own May film festival. One place to start is highly-rated movies from recent years that I never had a chance to see. I've already blogged about 2018 and 2019 end-of-year Metacritic rankings compiled from film critic lists.

Below I've produced the list for 2017 and attempted my own rankings -- and most importantly for my purposes, identified the films I never saw. I may also eventually revisit 2016, 2015, etc.

FILMS MENTIONED ON MOST CRITIC TOP 10 LISTS - 2017

Movie and Metascore		# 1st Place	# 2nd Place	# Other	Points
1	85 Get Out	36	18	160.5	309.5
2	94 Lady Bird	18	31	134.5	255
3	93 Call Me by Your Name	31	24	87	231
4	92 The Florida Project	24	14	115	218
5	94 Dunkirk	12	16	115	186
6	87 The Shape of Water	25	12	71	171.5
7	90 Phantom Thread	14	14	75.5	147
8	88 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	13	16	56.5	130
9	81 Blade Runner 2049	6	8	60	96.5
10	84 A Ghost Story	3	10	60	90
11	80 Good Time	5	8	55	87
12	83 The Post	7	1	45.5	71
13	77 A Quiet Passion	6	9	32	69
14	86 The Big Sick	0	3	59.5	67.5
15	77 Personal Shopper	5	6	36	64
16	85 Mudbound	6	5	33.5	62
17	86 Baby Driver	1	4	48	60.5
18	75 mother!	7	2	31.5	57
	94 Faces Places	2	1	48	57
20	77 Logan	0	5	40.5	52.5
21	77 I, Tonya	1	5	36.5	50
	71 Nocturama	5	4	26.5	50
23	76 Wonder Woman	3	1	33	46.5
24	78 The Lost City of Z	4	1	30.5	45
25	85 Star Wars: The Last Jedi	0	3	33.5	41.5

Best Films of 2017

Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I, Tanya
Dunkirk
Shape of Water

Excellent

Get Out
The Big Sick
The Post
Florida Project

Phantom Thread

Very Good, but flawed

Good Time
Baby Driver
Lost City of Z
A Ghost Story

Wonder Woman
Star Wars Last Jedi
Blade Runner 2049
Mudbound
Logan

Didn't  yet see these films (will add later and mark with yellow)

Call Me By Your Name
Faces Places
mother!
Nocturama
Personal Shopper
A Quiet Passion

This last list is the main point of the exercise as I'm going to fill in some gaps in my recent movie viewing.


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