Video: The best films of 2017

The world may be upside down, but the movies are adapting. For our annual snapshot of the year’s best movies, we cast our poll open to the full spectrum of moving-image art works – films, video art, TV, VR, you name it (because we can’t).

One hundred and eighty-eight international critics and curators choose five new releases that made the biggest impression on them in 2017 – and rising to the top are some exciting new voices, new visions and new forms…

See the 25 best films (and related moving-image art works) of 2017

 

Read more about the films of 2017 in the January 2018 issue of Sight & Sound

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