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Year In ReView: Our 10 favorite films of 2017

For all of the shit that's been slung at us over the course of 2017, it's been an absolutely incredible year for cinema, and it was nearly impossible to whittle the over-175 movies I've seen this year down to 10 favorites. Normally people put phrases like that at the start of a year-end list, but it's not just bullshit. From The Disaster Artist to Logan to Mudbound to Dunkirk to Professor Marston and the Wonder Women to Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Blade Runner 2049 to Stronger and plenty more, there were some great fucking movies that I left off this list and I'm so grateful to have seen them all. But here's 10 that I think are the truly essential and interesting films of the year, and are my personal favorites from 2017.

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Call Me by Your Name

Now, of course, this is a favorites list, so I’m trying to avoid saying generally that any one thing is the best movie of the year, but I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Luca Guadagino’s sweet and achingly sad romance between an Italian teenager and an American graduate student is probably the best movie I saw this year. It’s soft and light throughout, with a breezy tone and some genuinely funny humor, but it’s quietly devastating and full of power when the third act begins to roll around. Call Me by Your Name also contains three of the best performances of 2017 — from Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer and the GOAT Michael Stuhlbarg — and makes the most of its beautiful setting, luxuriating in the warmth of an Italian summer while blasting 1983’s best tunes. It’s the kind of romance that differs tonally from a great deal of the mainstream films that have come before it, and was a film I desperately needed to turn to in the dark moments of this year.

Here’s a capsule review from TIFF.

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