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 as you’ll see below, rising to the top are some exciting new voices, new visions and new forms…