Now you can see how everybody voted.
Below are the 31 submitted best-of lists that contributed to our 2017 end-of-year poll.
Christopher Campbell
Founding Editor, Nonfics
(See longer list at Thrillist)
1. Kedi
2. School Life (aka In Loco Parentis)
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time
4. In Transit
5. Trophy
6. LA 92
7. All This Panic
8. I Called Him Morgan
9. Bobbi Jene
10. Karl Marx City
11. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
12. Human Flow
13. Dina
14. Risk
15. Oklahoma City
16. Strong Island
17. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
18. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
19. Whose Streets?
20. Jane
Daniel Clarkson Fisher
Critic, Nonfics
1. Karl Marx City
2. Starless Dreams
3. The Work
4. Whose Streets?
5. Risk
6. Strong Island
7. An Uncertain Future
8. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992
9. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
10. The War Show
Kieran Fisher
Critic, Nonfics and Film School Rejects
1. Get Me Roger Stone
2. City of Ghosts
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time
4. Kedi
5. My Scientology Movie
6. Saving Capitalism
7. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
8. Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time
9. Voyeur
10. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
Andrew Karpan
Critic, Nonfics and Film School Rejects
1. Human Flow
2. David Lynch: The Art Life
3. A Gray State
4. Bunch of Kunst
5. The Reagan Show
6. A River Below
7. Casting JonBenet
8. Get Me Roger Stone
9. Last Men in Aleppo
10. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
Emily Kubincanek
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. Becoming Cary Grant
Billy Dass
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
2. 24×36: A Movie About Movie Posters
3. Step
4. I Am Not Your Negro
5. Take Every Wave
6. Alive and Kicking
7. Swagger
8. Dina
9. Kedi
10. Supergirl
Valerie Ettenhofer
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. Whose Streets?
2. Casting JonBenet
3. The Cinema Travellers
4. Kedi
5. LA 92
6. I Am Not Your Negro
7. Heroin(e)
8. One of Us
9. I Am Heath Ledger
10. Voyeur
Matt Hoffman
Critic, Film School Rejects
1. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2. Faces Places
3. Dina
4. Casting JonBenet
5. Maison du Bonheur
6. One of Us
7. 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide
Edwin Arnaudin
Critic, Ashville Citizen-Times
1. May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
2. Faces Places
3. Spielberg
4. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
5. Jane
6. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
7. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
8. Step
9. I Called Him Morgan
10. Whose Streets?
Adam Benzine
Filmmaker, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
1. Mommy Dead and Dearest
2. Blue Planet II
3. Charlottesville: Race and Terror
4. A Better Man
5. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
6. Jane
7. Icarus
8. Bobbi Jene
9. The Work
10. (tie) The Rabbit Hunt and Fish Story
Colin Biggs
Critic, CutPrintFilm
1. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
2. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
3. Whose Streets?
4. LA 92
5. The Work
6. City of Ghosts
7. Dawson City: Frozen Time
8. Risk
9. Kedi
10. The Last Laugh
Alex Billington
Critic, FirstShowing.net
1. Chasing Coral
2. Faces Places
3. Jane
4. Dawson City: Frozen Time
5. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
6. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
7. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
8. Icarus
9. Last Men in Aleppo
10. Step
Clint Bowie
Artistic Director, New Orleans Film Festival
1. Faces Places
2. Dina
3. All These Sleepless Nights
4. Strong Island
5. Quest
6. Kedi
7. 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
8. Jane
9. Rat Film
10. Casting JonBenet
Josh Brunsting
Critic, The CriterionCast
1. Faces Places
2. All This Panic
3. Human Flow
4. Dawson City: Frozen Time
5. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
6. Eldorado XXI
7. Quest
8. The Force
9. The Rape of Recy Taylor
10. Whose Streets?
11. The Challenge
Edward Douglas
Critic, The Tracking Board
1. Kedi (“x10”)
Scott Feinberg
Critic, The Hollywood Reporter
1. Icarus
2. Voyeur
3. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992
4. Oklahoma City
5. Risk
6. Jane
7. Step
8. Bang! The Bert Berns Story
9. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
10. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Kyle Finnegan
Filmmaker, Typewriters Today
1. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
2. Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off)
3. Birth of a Movement
4. The Reagan Show
5. Nuts!
6. The Wrong Ligh
Cynthia Fuchs
Critic, PopMatters
1. Faces Places
2. Casting JonBenet
3. Machines
4. Risk
5. I Am Another You
6. Rat Film
7. Whose Streets?
8. Strong Island
9. Motherland
10. I Called Him Morgan
11. Step
Kenji Fujishima
Critic, Freelance
1. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2. The Work
3. Starless Dreams
4. Wormwood
5. In Transit
6. Dawson City: Frozen Time
7. Behemoth
8. Tempestad
9. Rat Film
10. Faces Places
Arlin Golden
Critic, Film Inquiry
Documentary Programmer, Drunken Film Fest
1. Jane
2. School Life
3. LA 92
4. Brimstone & Glory
5. Dina
6. Casting JonBenet
7. Tokyo Idols
8. Kedi
9. I Called Him Morgan
10. Bill Nye: Science Guy
11. Rat Film
12. The Force
Best Undistributed:
1. California Dreams
Steve Greene
Critic, IndieWire
1. The Work
2. All These Sleepless Nights
3. Quest
4. LA 92
5. Chasing Coral
6. School Life
7. Last Men in Aleppo
8. Kedi
9. The Bomb
10. 11/8/16
11. Forever Pure
Tim Grierson
Critic, Screen International and The New Republic
1. The Work
2. Rat Film
3. In Transit
4. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
5. Casting JonBenet
6. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
7. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
8. Contemporary Color
9. Dawson City: Frozen Time
10. Faces Places
Christian Hamaker
Critic, Crosswalk.com
1. Escapes
2. I Called Him Morgan
3. Jane
4. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
5. Faces Places
Matthew Lucas
Critic, The Lexington Dispatch and From the Front Row
1. Dawson City: Frozen Time
2. Faces Places
3. The Work
4. LA 92
5. Human Flow
6. Quest
7. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
8. Starless Dreams
9. Jane
10. Rat Film
John Lynn-Fernandez
Critic, International Cinephile Society
1. Faces Places
2. Dawson City: Frozen Time
3. The B-Side Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
4. Risk
5. Ex Libris: The New Your Public Library
Best Undistributed:
1. The Venerable W.
2. A Skin So Soft
3. The Dead Nation
Peter Martin
Critic, Screen Anarchy
1. Strong Island
2. One of Us
3. Last Men of Aleppo
4. Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
5. Maineland
6. The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
7. David Lynch: The Art Life
8. Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
9. City of Ghosts
10. Haunters: Art of the Scare
Patrick Mullen
Critic, Point of View Magazine
1. Step
2. Kedi
3. Faces Places
4. Manifesto
5. Long Time Running
6. Dawson City: Frozen Time
7. Jane
8. Obit
9. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
10. Human Flow
Best Undistributed:
1. Susanne Bartsch: On Top
Tom Roston
Critic, POV’s Documentary Blog
1. Jane
2. Long Strange Trip
3. Last Men in Aleppo
4. One of Us
5. The Work
6. Faces Places
7. Machines
8. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
9. Risk
10. Strong Island
Dan Schindel
Critic, The Film Stage
1. Wormwood
2. Ta’ang
3. The Work
4. Rat Film
5. Strong Island
6. LoveTrue
7. Faces Places
8. Dawson City: Frozen Time
9. Casting JonBenet
10. Karl Marx City
Brian Tallerico
Critic, RogerEbert.com
1. Jane
2. The Work
3. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
4. Whose Streets?
5. Five Came Back
6. Uncertain
7. Quest
8. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
9. Dina
10. City of Ghosts
Basil Tsiokos
Director of Programming, DOC NYC and Nantucket Film Festival
1. Kedi
2. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
3. Motherland
4. Jane
5. Dawson City: Frozen Time
6. Strong Island
7. All This Panic
8. Quest
9. Dina
10. Rat Film
