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10 Films to See in January

As you make your way through the best films of 2017, January not only brings wide releases of two of our top picks–Phantom Thread and Call Me by Your Name—but a handful of worthwhile 2018 titles as well. ...

Willow Maclay’s Top 10 Films of 2017

Cinema as a tool of open engagement is in danger, much like everything else. To live through 2017 is to wonder which of your rights will be stripped today by the powers that be day in and day out....

Michael Snydel’s Top 10 Films of 2017

From movies about penances for personal hells that seemed to last eternities to stories about revelatory summers over in a blink, these ten choices are all movies whose main appeal for me were about their manipulation, presentation, or subversion of the passage of time....

Jared Mobarak’s Top 10 Films of 2017

Unlike past years where the safe nominees were lacking that sense of out-of-nowhere creativity and pathos beyond tried-and-true molds, 2017's field is inspiring in its diversity....

Mike Mazzanti’s Top 10 Films of 2017

For me, cinema remains not a source of escape, but of essential existence. Through this, my top pick is a film that calls lovingly back to cinema’s roots while still stunning with modern beauty....

Ryan Swen’s Top 10 Films of 2017

Appropriately enough for one of the oddest years in recent memory, my favorite films from 2017 are a motley, often contradictory mix....