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Ah, here's always a fun read:

Armond White's Annual Better Than List.
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Lights Camera Jackson's Top 10 list.

Those of you who DON'T want to sit through his video:

1. The Post
2. Wonder
3. I, Tonya
4. Step
5. Blade Runner 2049
6. Wind River
7. The Hero
8. The Breadwinner
9. American Made
10. The Big Sick
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I thought they fired Rex. I guess this was a guest column.

I always enjoyed his year-end tributes to the recently departed more than his critical pronouncements, which they will hopefully publish next week.

The only controversial choice I see among his ten worst is Get Out.

I liked the spectacle of Dunkirk, but not the lack of personal drama. Even the Mark Rylance part of the story, which did have a dramatic arc, was played with more stiff upper lip British reserve than need be. Their Finest, which is among his top ten, is a more dramatically rewarding film about the Dunkirk evacuation and the film being made about it during the blitz. I'm glad he stayed awake during that one!
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What I find most amusing about Rex Reed's 10 worst list is the fact that it could easily be another critic's 10 best list.
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Owen Gleiberman.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/owen- ... 202634223/

1. Lady Bird
2. Get Out
3. Oklahoma City
4. The Florida Project
5. The Disaster Artist
6. Faces Places
7. Logan Lucky
8. Call Me By Your Name
9. Loveless
10. I, Tonya
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I changed the title from John Waters Top Ten something that can include any other interesting top ten's of 2017.

Here is Film Comments:

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-of-2017/

A lot of their top 20 (nearly half) are from 2016. I assume that international critics taking part in the poll have not seen most of the recent U.S. releases.

And Film Comments unreleased films in the U.S.:

https://www.filmcomment.com/best-undist ... s-of-2017/
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John Waters Top Ten

01. “Baby Driver” (Edgar Wright)
02. “I, Olga Hepnarová” (Tomáš Weinreb & Petr Kazda)
03. “The Strange Ones” (Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein)
04. “Nocturama” (Bertrand Bonello)
05. “Wonderstruck” (Todd Haynes)
06. “Graduation” (Christian Mungiu)
07. “The Wizard of Lies” (Barry Levinson)
08. “Lady Macbeth” (William Oldroyd)
09. “Wonder Wheel” (Woody Allen)
10. “Tom of Finland” (Dome Karukoski)
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