Top 21 Movies 2017

In rough order, all categories:

2017  RELEASES

GOOD TIME

MOLLY’S GAME

LOGAN LUCKY

STRONGER

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (New and Collected)

OKJA

TO THE BONE

PHANTOM THREAD

MUDBOUND

BRAD’S STATUS

NORMAN

THE UNKNOWN GIRL

NOVITIATE

WONDER

A WOMAN’S LIFE
AFTER THE STORM

GRADUATION

LOVELESS

MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA

THE TRIP TO SPAIN

THEIR FINEST

BEFORE 2017  (FIRST SEEN IN 2017)

A LIFE OF HER OWN (1950)

LOVE THE COOPERS (2015)

SUNSHINE (1999)

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)

EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (1949)

ALL WE HAD (2016)

 

ACTORS

ROBERT PATTISON (Good Time), JAKE GYLLENHAAL (Stronger), DANIEL DAY-LEWIS (Phantom Thread), DENZEL WASHINGTON (Roman J. Israel, Esq.), TOBY MAGUIRE (Pawn Sacrifice); CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (All the Money in the World), WOODY HARRELSON (LBJ), KEVIN COSTNER (Molly’s Game), IDRIS ELBA (Molly’s Game), ADAM SANDLER (The Meyerowitz Stories), MICHAEL SHANNON (The Shape of Water), BENNY SAFDIE (Good Time), PAUL WALTER HAUSER (I, Tonya), JIM BROADBENT (The Sense of an Ending), BEN STILLER (The Meyerowitz Stories; Brad’s Status), STEVE COOGAN (The Dinner), CHANNING TATUM (Logan Lucky), GARY OLDMAN (Darkest Hour),  IDRIS ELBA (Molly’s Game), HIROSHI ABE (After the Storm), JAMES CAGNEY (Yankee Doodle Dandy), DUSTIN HOFFMAN (The Meyerowitz Stories), KEVIN SPACEY (Beyond the Sea), JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT (Happy End), ROBERT REDFORD (Our Souls at Night), BUDDY DURESS (Good Time), DANIEL CRAIG (Logan Lucky), RAY ROMANO (The Big Sick), JEREMY RENNER (Wind River), AUSTIN ABRAMS (Brad’s Status), BILL NIGHY (Their Finest), ALEX SHARP (To the Bone), MICHAEL SHEEN (Brad’s Status), JIMMY DURANTE (It Happened in Brooklyn)

ACTRESSES

JESSICA CHASTAIN (Molly’s Game), TATIANA MASLANY (Stronger), LILY COLLINS (To the Bone), MELISSA LEO (Novitiate), VICKY KRIEPS (Phantom Thread), LESLEY MANVILLE (Phantom Thread), MARGOT ROBBIE (I, Tonya),  CAREY MULLIGAN (Mudbound), SALLY HAWKINS (The Shape of Water), JUDITH CHEMLA (A Woman’s Life), KATIE HOLMES (All We Had), MERYL STREEP (The Post), MARGARET QUALLEY (Novitiate), ADÉLE HAENEL (The Unknown Girl), JANE FONDA  (Our Souls at Night), KIRIN KIKI (After the Storm), HOLLY HUNTER (The Big Sick), RILEY KEOUGH (Logan Lucky), GEMMA ARTERTON (Their Finest), FRANCES McDORMAND (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

ENSEMBLES

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES, LOGAN LUCKY, MUDBOUND, STRONGER, GOOD TIME, MOLLY’S GAME, THE SHAPE OF WATER, THE DINNER, BRAD’S STATUS, TO THE BONE, GRADUATION, LOVE THE COOPERS

DIRECTORS

BENNY & Josh Safdie (Good Time), DAVID GORDON GREEN  (Stronger), PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON (Phantom Thread), STEVEN SODERBERGH (Logan Lucky), BONG JOON HO (Okja), JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE (The Unknown Girl), NOAH BAUMBACH ((The Meyerowitz Stories), DEE REES (Mudbound), Stéphane Brizé (A Woman’s Life), JOSEPH CEDAR (Norman), HIROKAZU KORE-DA (After the Storm), AARON SORKIN (Molly’s Game), MIKE WHITE (Brad’s Status), CRITIAN MUNGIU (Graduation),  EDGAR WRIGHT (Baby Driver), MARTI NOXON (To the Bone), ISTVÁN SZABÓ (Sunshine), GEORGE CUKOR (A Life of Her Own), MERVYN LeROY (East Side, West Side), JESSIE NELSON (Love the Coopers)

WRITERS

RONALD BRONSTEIN & JOSH SAFDIE (Good Time), NOAH BAUMBACH (The Meyerowitz Stories), AARON SORKIN (Molly’s Game), JOSEPH CEDAR (Norman), REBECCA BLUNT (Logan Lucky), JOHN POLLONO (Stronger), MIKE WHITE (Brad’s Status), MARTI NOXON (To the Bone),  VIRGIL WILLIAMS & DEE REES (Mudbound; novel by Hillary Jordan), ISOBEL LENNART (A Life of her Own; East Side, West Side [novel by Marcia Davenport]), JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE (The Unknown Girl), Stéphane Brizé & FLORENCE VIGNON (A Woman’s Life; novel by Guy de Maupassant), HIROKAZU KORE-EDA (After the Storm), CRISTIAN MUNGIU (Graduation), STEVEN ROGERS (Love the Coopers)