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Lit­tle White Lies con­trib­u­tors’ Top 10 films of 2017

16 Dec 2017

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A man with a beard wearing a red jacket and grey hoodie stands in a corridor.
Our writ­ers select their favourite new releas­es from the past 12 months.

Hav­ing already revealed our offi­cial best films of 2017 list, we thought we’d sur­vey some of our reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tors for their per­son­al favourites. The only stip­u­la­tion we gave was that it must reflect new releas­es or any­thing eli­gi­ble for the cur­rent awards sea­son. After you’ve checked out these indi­vid­ual Top 10s, share yours with us @LWLies

Han­nah Wood­head @goodjobliz

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1. You Were Nev­er Real­ly Here
2. God’s Own Coun­try
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. The Shape of Water
5. Jack­ie
6. Three Bill­boards Out­side Ebbing, Mis­souri
7. The Post
8. Raw
9. A Ghost Sto­ry
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

David Jenk­ins @daveyjenkins

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Phan­tom Thread
3. The Beguiled
4. The Shape of Water
5. The Flori­da Project
6. Song to Song
7. Logan Lucky
8. The Lev­el­ling
9. Girls Trip
10. Three Bill­boards Out­side Ebbing, Missouri

Jus­tine Smith @redroomrantings

1. Thel­ma
2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
3. Good Time
4. Raw
5. Love­less
6. The Beguiled
7. Paris Can Wait
8. The Flori­da Project
9. John Wick: Chap­ter 2
10. Ex Lib­ris: The New York Pub­lic Library

Adam Wood­ward @AWLies

1. Phan­tom Thread
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. Padding­ton 2
4. Good Time
5. The Flori­da Project
6. The Shape of Water
7. The Lev­el­ling
8. A Ghost Sto­ry
9. Logan Lucky
10. Icarus

Sim­ran Hans @heavier_things

1. Good Time
2. God’s Own Coun­try
3. Machines
4. The Human Surge
5. Per­son to Per­son
6. Get Out
7. The Work
8. Ex Lib­ris
9. BPM
10. Whose Streets

Matt Thrift @Matt_Cinephile

1. Phan­tom Thread
2. Per­son­al Shop­per
3. Song to Song
4. The Shape of Water
5. The Death of Louis XIV
6. The Beguiled
7. By the Time It Gets Dark
8. Logan Lucky
9. The Post
10. Good Time

Christi­na New­land @christinalefou

1. Silence
2. Mud­bound
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Daw­son City: Frozen Time
5. The Flori­da Project
6. Beach Rats
7. Strong Island
8. Get Out
9. A Ghost Sto­ry
10. The Meyerowitz Sto­ries: New & Selected

Nadia Latif @HerrDirector

1. Sweet Coun­try
2. Raw
3. Get Out
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Before Sum­mer Ends
6. God’s Own Coun­try
7. Hounds of Love
8. The Flori­da Project
9. Good Time
10. Mud­bound

James Lux­ford @JLFilm

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Dunkirk
3. Padding­ton 2
4. Blade Run­ner 2049
5. Baby Dri­ver
6. A Fan­tas­tic Woman
7. My Life as a Cour­gette
8. Human Flow
9. Elle
10. The Shape of Water

Kather­ine McLaugh­lin @Ms_K_McLaughlin

1. Faces Places
2. A Qui­et Pas­sion
3. The Beguiled
4. The Oth­er Side of Hope
5. Pre­venge
6. I Am Not a Witch
7. Get Out
8. Raw
9. The Bal­lad of Shirley Collins
10. Girls Trip

Anton Bitel @AntBit

1. I Am Not Your Negro
2. Blade Run­ner 2049
3. Man­i­festo
4. The Trans­fig­u­ra­tion
5. Raw
6. The Flori­da Project
7. Get Out
8. The Lev­el­ling
9. Colos­sal
10. Thel­ma

Ele­na Laz­ic @elazic

1. BPM
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. Noc­tura­ma
4. Dunkirk
5. Patri­ots Day
6. Brawl in Cell Block 99
7. God’s Own Coun­try
8. The Great­est Show­man
9. Girls Trip
10. Won­der Woman

Manuela Laz­ic @ManiLazic

1. Dunkirk
2. Call Me by Your Name
3. BPM
4. The Work
5. Won­der Woman
6. Noc­tura­ma
7. A Ghost Sto­ry
8. Girls Trip
9. Silence
10. Split

Michael Leader @MichaelJLeader

1. The Work
2. Heal the Liv­ing
3. Raw
4. Pro­fes­sor Marston and the Won­der Women
5. My Entire High School Sink­ing into the Sea
6. My Life as a Cour­gette
7. All This Pan­ic
8. Lovesong
9. Dunkirk
10. The Flori­da Project

Glenn Heath Jr @MatchCuts

1. Song to Song
2. Won­der­struck
3. Noc­tura­ma
4. The Work
5. Phan­tom Thread
6. Ex Lib­ris: The New York Pub­lic Library
7. Per­son­al Shop­per
8. Logan Lucky
9. The Woman Who Left
10. Daw­son City: Frozen Time

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