Team Screen's best films of 2017

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Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2017. Festival premieres and UK/US theatrical releases are deemed eligible.

Matt Mueller (editor)

• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
• Foxtrot (dir. Samuel Maoz)
• Custody (dir. Xavier Legrand)
• Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King)

Jeremy Kay (Americas editor)

• A Fantastic Woman (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
• Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)
• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky)

 Andreas Wiseman (deputy editor)

• The Handmaiden (dir. Park Chan-wook)
• OJ: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)
• The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo Del Toro)
• Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Foxtrot (dir. Samuel Maoz)

Orlando Parfitt (online editor)

• Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Lost City Of Z (dir. James Gray)
• Death Of Stalin (dir. Armando Iannucci)
• Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
• Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King)

Tom Grater (deputy online editor)

• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• The Rider (dir. Chloe Zhao)
• The Shape Of Water (dir. Guillermo Del Toro)
• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimons)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (dir. Rian Johnson)

Melanie Goodfellow (France/Middle East correspondent)

• Last Men In Aleppo (dir. Firas Fayyad)
• Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)
• BPM (dir. Robin Campillo)
• Beauty And The Dogs (dir. Khaled Walid Barsaoui and Kaouther Ben Hania)
• Valerian and the City Of A Thousand Planets (dir. Luc Besson)

Geoffrey Macnab (UK correspondent)

• The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
• Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Molly’s Game (dir. Aaron Sorkin)
• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Lady Macbeth (dir. William Oldroyd)

Elisabet Cabeza (Spain correspondent)

• Faces Places (Agnes Varda and JR)
• Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)
• The Other Side Of Hope (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)
• Life And Nothing More (dir. Aki Kaurismäki)

Vladan Petkovic (Serbia correspondent)

• The Other Side Of Everything (dir. Mila Turajlic)
• Loveless (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
• Detroit (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
• King (Rey) (dir. Niles Attalah)
• 69 Minutes of 86 Days (dir. Egil Haaskjold Larsen)

Elaine Guerini (Brazil correspondent)

• The Square (dir. Ruben Ostlund)
• Foxtrot (dir. Samuel Maoz)
• Call Me by Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Faces, Places (dir. Agnes Varda and JR)
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh)

Nikki Baughan (contributing editor)

• God’s Own Country (dir. Francis Lee)
• Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)
• A Ghost Story (dir. David Lowery)
• Beast (dir. Michael Pearce)
• I Am Not A Witch (dir. Rungano Nyoni)

Wendy Mitchell (contributing editor)

• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Ladybird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
• Lady Macbeth (dir. William Oldroyd)
• Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• The Square (dir. Ruben Ostlund)

Charles Gant (features editor)

• The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker)
• BPM (Beats Per Minute) (dir. Robin Campillo)
• Loveless (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
• A Prayer Before Dawn (dir. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
• God’s Own Country (dir. Francis Lee)

Louise Tutt (contributing editor)

• Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig)
• Call Me By Your Name (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
• Wonder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins)
• T2: Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle)
• Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL - OVERALL TOP 5

1. Call Me By Your Name
2. Dunkirk/Get Out (tied)
3. The Florida Project
4. Lady Bird/A Fantastic Woman (tied)
5. Foxtrot/The Shape Of Water (tied)