How many have you seen?
Just like the falling temperatures and congested football fixture list, the ‘best of’ lists are always a telling sign that another year is nearly passed.
This being said, with the holidays fast approaching, now is the perfect time to catch up with any films, TV shows, books that you may have missed during the year and after Empire revealed their favourite films of 2017, the BFI have done the very same.
In their poll, the British Film Institute asked 188 international film critics and curators to select five films that made the biggest impression on them in 2017.
No two people see the same film in the exact same way, but it’s somewhat of a surprise to see that both outlets have agreed on their favourite film of the year and Jordan Peele will be very pleased.
Yet again, Get Out has topped the list with the critics remarking that the horror/social satire was “a brilliantly inventive horror that skewers the insecurities and injustices of modern America.”
Announced: #GetOut by @JordanPeele has been voted @sightsoundmag’s Film of the Year 2017! Take a look at the full list of films in this year’s critics’ opinion poll from 11am (GMT) https://t.co/OTFuJHnx9v 👀 pic.twitter.com/qIJzWSGRZ5
— BFI (@BFI) December 5, 2017
As for the rest of the list, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return was second (there’s clearly a loophole as it was mainly distributed as a TV show) while the critically adored Call Me By Your Name is third.
Robert Pattinson’s bungled-heist thriller Good Time has placed seventh on the list while Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic Dunkirk also makes the top 10.
As for some of the other notable titles that made the BFI’s best of 2017, Netflix viewers can currently watch two of them at home. We told you all about Yance Ford’s incredible documentary Strong Island and that ranked as the joint-sixteenth best film of the year.
The BFI panel remarked that the documentary is “an intimate investigation into the death of his brother and the legal injustice that followed, as both a family tragedy and an index of wider American malaise.”
Three places below that is Mudbound, which is also available to watch on Netflix, and “in Dee Rees’s mythic and superbly acted family saga set in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s, two young men return from the front only to find bigotry and poverty tearing their community apart.”
Here’s the BFI’s list in full:
Joint 25th: Silence and The Other Side of Hope
Joint 19th: I Am Not Your Negro, Lady Bird, Let the Sunshine In, Moonlight, Mother! and Mudbound.
Joint 16th: Personal Shopper, The Shape of Water and Strong Island
15: God’s Own Country
Joint 12th: Lady Macbeth, 120 BPM and You Were Never Really Here
11: A Ghost Story
Joint 9th: Dunkirk and The Florida Project
8: Loveless
7: Good Time
6: Faces Places
5: Western
4: Zama
3: Call Me by Your Name
2: Twin Peaks: The Return
1: Get Out
