film | 2017

(138+168)

January
(20+14)
HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016, UK) [8]
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016, USA) [8]
La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016, USA) [8]
The Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon, 2016, South Korea) [7]
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016, UK | France | Belgium) [9]
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016, Germany | Austria | Romania) [9]
We Are the Flesh (Emiliano Rocha Minter, 2016, Mexico | France) [6]
Jackie (Pablo Larraín, 2016, Chile | France | USA) [8]
Christine (Antonio Campos, 2016, UK | USA) [7]
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen, 2016, Finland | Swe | Ger) [8]
Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair, 2016, USA) [6]
Operation Avalanche (Matt Johnson, 2016, USA) [4]
Murder by Phone (Michael Anderson, 1982, Canada | USA) [5]
The Prowler (Joseph Zito, 1981, USA) [6]
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Stephen Chiodo, 1988, USA) [7]
The Burning (Tony Maylam, 1981, USA | Canada) [5]
Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980, Canada) [5]
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (Bruce Pittman, 1987, Canada) [7]
The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce, 2016, USA) [6]
The Founder (John Lee Hancock, 2016, USA) [7]
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2016, USA) [7]
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, 2016, Romania | France | Belgium) [9]
Sworn Virgin (Laura Bispuri, 2015, Italy | Switzerland | Ger | Alb | Kos | Fra) [8]
The Lovers (Louis Malle, 1958, France) [7]
Zazie in the Metro (Louis Malle, 1960, France) [9]
The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963, France) [10]
Come Drink With Me (King Hu, 1966, Taiwan) [7]
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971, Taiwan) [8]
A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962) [6]
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958, France) [10]
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967, Taiwan) [10]
Diamond Island (Davy Chou, 2016, France | Cambodia | Germany | Qatar | Thailand)  [8]
Barakah Meets Barakah (Mahmoud Sabbagh, 2016, Saudi Arabia) [7]
Thithi (Raam Reddy, 2015,  India | USA) [10]

February
(17+39)
Beware the Slenderman (Irene Taylor Brodsky, 2016, USA) [5]
One Man and His Cow (Mohamed Hamidi, 2016, France) [8]
The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016, USA) [8]
Microwave Massacre (Wayne Berwick, 1983, USA) [0]
Popcorn (Mark Herrier, 1991, USA) [6]
Frankenhooker (Frank Henenlotter, 1990, USA) [6]
Miami Connection (Richard Park, Y.K. Kim, 1987, USA) [7]
Roar (Noel Marshall, 1981, USA) [8]
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman, 2015, France | USA) [6]
Split (M. Night Shyamalan, 2016, USA) [5]
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000, USA) [8]
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999, USA) [8]
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, 2010, USA | UK | Canada | Japan) [7]
The Love Witch (Anna Biller, 2016, USA) [6]
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, USA) [9]
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975, USA) [9]
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971, USA) [9]
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973, USA) [8]
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, 1970, USA) [7]
Tampopo (Jûzô Itami, 1985, Japan) [8]
The Funeral (Jûzô Itami, 1984, Japan) [7]
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, 2016, USA) [8]
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016, Japan) [6]
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, 2016, Iran | France) [8]
Xtro (Harry Bromley Davenport, 1982, UK | USA) [4]
Intruder (Scott Spiegel, 1989, USA) [5]
C.H.U.D. (Douglas Cheek, 1984, USA) [7]
R.O.T.O.R. (Cullen Blaine, 1987, USA) [2]
Harmonium (Kôji Fukada, 2016, Japan | France) [8]
Closet Monster (Stephen Dunn, 2015, Canada) [5]
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984, USA) [9]
Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968, USA) [7]
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973, USA) [7]
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979, USA) [7]
Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, 1977, USA) [9]
Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986, Taiwan) [10]
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [10]
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski, 2017, USA) [9]
A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski, 2016, Germany | USA) [6]
The LEGO Batman Movie (Chris McKay, 2017, USA | Denmark) [7]
The Outfit (John Flynn, 1973, USA) [6]
The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971, USA) [7]
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973, USA) [6]
Equinox (Jack Woods, 1970, USA) [6]
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974, USA) [6]
Hector (Jake Gavin, 2015, UK) [6]
Scherzo Diabolico (Adrián García Bogliano, 2015, Mexico | USA) [7]
Crazed Fruit (Kô Nakahira, 1956, Japan) [7]
Bad Boys (Susumu Hani, 1961, Japan) [7]
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindô, 1960, Japan) [8]
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964, Japan) [9]
Funeral Parade Of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969, Japan) [5]
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan) [8]
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962, Japan) [8]
Blind Beast (Yasuzô Masumura, 1969, Japan) [9]
Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa, 1956, Japan) [8]

March
(14+17)
Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, 1986, UK) [7]
Logan (James Mangold, 2017, USA) [8]
Death By Hanging (Nagisa Ôshima, 1968) [6]
Thirst For Love (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1966, Japan) [8]
Intentions Of Murder (Shôhei Imamura, 1964, Japan) [7]
Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967, Japan) [9]
Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1969, Japan) [6]
A Fugitive From The Past  (Tomu Uchida, 1965, Japan) [7]
The Sun Legend Of The End Of The Tokugawa Era (Yûzô Kawashima, 1957, Japan) [8]
Manji (Yasuzô Masumura, 1964, Japan) [7]
Staying Vertical [aka. Rester vertical] (Alain Guiraudie, 2016, France) [8]
Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2017, China | Australia | Canada | USA) [8]
Chorus (François Delisle, 2015, Canada) [7]
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm, 2015, Sweden) [7]
Thief (Michael Mann, 1981, USA) [8]
Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986, USA) [7]
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, 2016, USA | France | Germany) [9]
At the End of the Tunnel (Rodrigo Grande, 2016, Argentina | Spain) [7]
Slack Bay [aka. Ma Loute] (Bruno Dumont, 2016, Germany | France) [8]
Tschick (Fatih Akin, 2016, Germany) [7]
Life+1Day (Saeed Roustayi, 2016, Iran) [7]
Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016, France | Germany | Belgium) [9]
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989, Japan) [8]
Sex and Fury (Norifumi Suzuki, 1973, Japan) [7]
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (Teruo Ishi, 1973, Japan) [5]
Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973, Japan) [7]
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (Toshiya Fujita, 1974, Japan) [6]
Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995, Japan | UK) [8]
Loving (Jeff Nichols, 2016, UK | USA) [7]
1944 (Elmo Nüganen, 2015, Estonia | Finland) [7]
Ghost in the Shell (Rupert Sanders, 2017, USA) [7]
Baskets: Season 2 (Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Krisel, 2017, USA) [8]

April
(5+26)
Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (Shun'ya Itô,1972, Japan) [7]
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shun'ya Itô, 1972, Japan) [8]
Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shun'ya Itô, 1973, Japan) [7]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1973, Japan) [8]
Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984, USA) [7]
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [10]
Apprentice (Boo Junfeng, 2016, Singapore | Germany | France | HK | Qatar) [7]
Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016, USA | Taiwan | Mexico) [9]
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983, Austria) [8]
Rapture [aka. Arrebato] (Iván Zulueta, 1979, Spain) [6]
From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, 1986, USA) [6]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986, USA) [8]
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, France | West Germany) [7]
The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987, USA) [6]
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, 2015, USA | France) [7]
Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017, USA) [6]
Vengeance is Mine (Shôhei Imamura, 1979, Japan) [8]
Watcher in the Attic (Noboru Tanaka, 1976, Japan) [4]
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964, Japan) [8]
Nanami, The Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani, 1968, Japan) [8]
Just Before Dawn (Jeff Lieberman, 1981, USA) [5]
StageFright (Michele Soavi, 1987, Italy) [6]
Maniac (William Lustig, 1980, USA) [5]
Them [aka. Ils] (David Moreau, Xavier Palud, 2006, France | Romania) [7]
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray, 2017, USA | France | Canada | UK | Samoa) [7]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974, USA) [8]
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971, UK | USA) [8]
The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven, 1983, Netherlands) [8]
Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev, 1967, Yugoslavia) [7]
Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1964, Japan) [7]
Inflatable Sex Dolls of the Wasteland (Atsushi Yamatoya, 1967, Japan) [7]

May
(7+12)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn, 2017, USA) [8]
Daydream (Tetsuji Takeji, 1964, Japan) [6]
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô, 1964, Japan) [7]
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966, Japan) [8]
God Speed You! Black Emperor (Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1976, Japan) [6]
Intimidation (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960, Japan) [8]
The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960, Japan) [9]
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016, Romania | France | Bosnia & H | Croatia | Macedonia) [6]
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson, 2016, USA) [7]
Frantz (François Ozon, 2016, France | Germany) [8]
The Man Without a Map (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1968, Japan) [5]
Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda, 1969, Japan) [7]
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016, France | USA) [7]
20th Century Women (Mike Mills, 2016, USA) [8]
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016, USA) [8]
The Insect Woman (Shôhei Imamura, 1963, Japan) [7]
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô, 1968, Japan) [7]
Raw Force (Edward D. Murphy, 1982, Philippines | USA) [7]
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001, USA | UK | Germany) [9]
The Americans: Season 4-5 (Joe Weisberg, 2016-2017, USA) [8]
Mr. Robot: Season 2 (Sam Esmail, 2016, USA) [8]

June
(6+12)
Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017, USA) [5]
The Fury of a Patient Man (Raúl Arévalo, 2016, Spain) [8]
The Olive Tree [El olivo] (Icíar Bollaín, 2016, Spain | Germany) [5]
Donald Cried (Kris Avedisian, 2016, USA) [6]
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2016, Belgium | France) [7]
Operation Mekong (Dante Lam, 2016, China | Hong Kong) [5]
Blood Diner (Jackie Kong, 1987, USA) [5]
One Dark Night (Tom McLoughlin, 1982, USA) [7]
When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton, 1979, USA) [6]
Take Aim at the Police Van (Seijun Suzuki, 1960, Japan) [7]
Irezumi (Yasuzô Masumura, 1966, Japan) [6]
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha, 1964, Japan) [8]
Alice Sweet Alice (Alfred Sole, 1976, USA) [6]
The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon, 1985, USA) [7]
Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto, 1968, Japan) [8]
Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962, Japan) [7]
The Wraith (Mike Marvin, 1986, USA | Canada) [4]
Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986, USA) [6]
Better Call Saul: Season 3 (Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, 2017, USA) [9]
Fargo: Season 3 (Noah Hawley, 2017, USA) [7]
American Gods: Season 1 (Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, 2017, USA) [7]

July
(6)
Baby Driver (Edgar Wright, 2017, UK | USA) [8]
Spider-Man: Homecoming (Jon Watts, 2017, USA) [8]
War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves, 2017, USA) [8]
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Luc Besson, 2017, France | USA) [6]
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, 2017, Netherlands | UK | France | USA) [9]
Atomic Blonde (David Leitch, 2017, USA) [7]

August
(11+6)
Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow, 2017, USA) [8]
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh, 2017, USA) [8]
Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016, Turkey | USA) [8]
Okja (Bong Joon-ho, 2017, South Korea | USA) [7]
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini, 2015, France | Italy) [8]
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017, Finland | Germany) [7]
The Trip to Italy (Michael Winterbottom, 2014, UK) [5]
My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras, 2016, Switzerland | France) [7]
Clash [Eshtebak] (Mohamed Diab, 2016, Egypt | France) [7]
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott, 2017, UK | USA | Australia | New Zealand | Canada) [8]
Anguish (Bigas Luna, 1987, Spain) [8]
Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970, USA) [6]
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994, Taiwan | USA) [10]
Dark Star (John Carpenter, 1974, USA) [7]
A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava, 1971, Italy) [7]
Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974, Italy) [7]
It Comes at Night (Trey Edward Shults, 2017, USA) [8]

September
(7+14)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977, USA) [8]
The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980, Canada) [6]
The Entity (Sidney J. Furie, 1982, USA) [9]
Happy Birthday to Me (J. Lee Thompson, 1981, Canada) [6]
The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990, USA) [7]
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992, USA | France) [8]
Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017, USA) [10]
It (Andy Muschietti, 2017, USA) [7]
Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha, 1965, Japan) [8]
A Wife Confesses (Yasuzô Masumura, 1961, Japan) [9]
Black Sun (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1964, Japan) [8]
The Descent (Neil Marshall, 2005, UK) [7]
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA) [10]
At Land (Maya Deren, 1946, USA) [7]
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1946, USA) [6]
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren, 1946, USA) [6]
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017, USA) [9]
The Vietnam War (Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, 2017, USA) [8]
Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016, France | Belgium | Italy) [8]
Lamb (Yared Zeleke, 2015, Ethiopia | France | Germany | Norway | Qatar) [8]
Neruda (Pablo Larraín, 2016, Chile | Argentina | France | Spain | USA) [8]

October
(22+14)
Suntan (Argyris Papadimitropoulos, 2016, Greece | Germany) [6]
Spoor [Pokot] (Agnieszka Holland, Kasia Adamik, 2017, Poland | Germany | Cze | Swe | Slo) [7]
Paths of the Soul (Zhang Yang, 2015, China) [10]
One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik, 2016, UK | France) [9]
Cult of Chucky (Don Mancini, 2017, USA) [7]
Sand Storm (Elite Zexer, 2016, Israel | Germany) [7]
The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015, Poland) [8]
The Student [(M)uchenik] (Kirill Serebrennikov, 2016, Russia) [8]
Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017, USA | UK | Canada) [9]
The Foreigner (Martin Campbell, 2017, UK | China | USA) [6]
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963, USA) [10]
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971, USA) [9]
French Connection II (John Frankenheimer, 1975, USA) [5]
River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986, USA) [9]
The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978, USA | UK) [8]
Mindhunter: Season 1 (David Fincher/Andrew Douglas/Asif Kapadia, 2017, USA) [8]
The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981, USA) [6]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Tobe Hooper, 1986, USA) [6]
The Strangers (Bryan Bertino, 2008, USA) [8]
The Mighty Peking Man (aka. Goliathon) (Meng Hua Ho, 1977, Hong Kong) [6]
The Terror Beneath the Sea (Hajime Satô, 1966, Japan) [7]
The Villainess (Jung Byung-gil, 2017, South Korea) [6]
Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui, 2017, China | Hong Kong) [7]
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, 2016, Japan) [8]
Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2016, Chile | UK | France) [8]
The Bar (Álex de la Iglesia, 2017, Spain | Argentina) [6]
What a Wonderful Family! (Yôji Yamada, 2016, Japan) [8]
Rage [Ikari] (Lee Sang-il, 2016, Japan) [6]
I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang, 2016, China) [9]
On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo, 2017, South Korea | Germany) [7]
Columbus (Kogonada, 2017, USA) [10]
In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967, USA) [9]
Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971, USA) [8]
Amsterdamned (Dick Maas, 1988, Netherlands) [7]
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (Hajime Satô, 1968, Japan) [7]
A Ghost Story (David Lowery, 2017, USA) [8]
Stranger Things 2 (The Duffer Brothers/Shawn Levy/Andrew Stanton, 2017, USA) [7]

November
(12+13)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016, France | Germany) [8]
Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994, France) [8]
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997, France) [6]
Better Luck Tomorrow (Justin Lin, 2002, USA) [7]
Living on Tokyo Time (Steven Okazaki, 1987, USA) [7]
Pushing Hands (Ang Lee, 1992, Taiwan) [6]
Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi, 2017, USA) [7]
The Untamed (Amat Escalante, 2016, Mexico | Denmark | France | Ger | Nor | Swit) [8]
Jeepers Creepers III (Victor Salva, 2017, USA) [5]
Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, 2017, USA) [8]
Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel, 1982, USA) [7]
Beast Cops (Gordon Chan, Dante Lam, 1998, Hong Kong) [8]
Iron Angels 3 (Stanley Tong, Teresa Woo, 1989, Hong Kong | Thailand) [7]
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998, France) [8]
The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982, USA) [7]
Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1988, Japan) [7]
Zombie (Lucio Fulci, 1979, Italy) [6]
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci, 1981, Italy) [6]
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017, Russia | France) [8]
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015, Canada) [6]
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017, UK | Poland) [8]
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2016, Portugal | France | Brazil) [7]
Tikkun (Avishai Sivan, 2015, Israel) [7]
The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra, 2016, France | Spain | Portugal) [5]
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler, 2017, USA) [8]

December
(11+1)
Cops vs Thugs (Kinji Fukasaku, 1975, Japan) [8]
The Bacchus Lady (Lee Je-yong, 2016, South Korea) [8]
Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, 2016, Philippines) [8]
Nahid (Ida Panahandeh, 2015, Iran) [8]
Horse Money (Pedro Costa, 2014, Portugal) [8]
King of the Belgians (Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, 2016, Belgium | Netherlands | Bulgaria) [7]
United States of Love (Tomasz Wasilewski, 2016, Poland | Sweden) [6]
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies, 2016, UK | Belgium) [8]
The Lost City of Z (James Gray, 2016, USA) [9]
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017, USA) [8]
The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016, USA) [7]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017, USA) [9]