2017: The Full List

2017 — the 11th year I’ve been doing this 100 films challenge, and the fifth consecutive year I’ve surpassed that goal. Below is the full list of new films I watched this year, all linked up to reviews and that. (“And that” being my “coming soon” page for the dozens of films I’ve not actually reviewed yet.)

My “Full List” post is an annual tradition round these parts, of course, but this year it undergoes its biggest change of format since 2012, when I switched from listing my viewing in chronological (aka numerical) order to listing it alphabetically, and also added the “as it happened” section. This time, however, it’s an even bigger change — the biggest change to this annual tradition ever, in fact.

I’ve got rid of the statistics.

“What, completely?” No, of course not — as regular readers will know, they’re the best part of the year! (They’re my personal highlight, anyway.) Now they’ll be in their own post. Frankly, I don’t know why I haven’t separated them off sooner. Tradition, mainly. Anyway, I think they belong there. Expect that post tomorrow.

In the meantime, there’s also a new addition to this post: TV reviews. As this was the first full year I’ve run my “Past Month on TV” column, and as there’s an ever-growing consensus to consider television on an equal footing with cinema as a narrative visual art form, and as that’s a position which I broadly agree with, it felt only right that I included my TV reviewing in this big ol’ list of reviews.

So, time to crack on with things. As this post is just a long list of words and pictures, if you don’t fancy the scroll (or the swipe, if you’re on one of them newfangled touchy-screens) here are some handy links to jump to whichever bit might interest you:

• As It Happened — 2017’s monthly updates, containing the numbered list.
• The List — an alphabetical list of every new film I watched in 2017.
• Alternate Cuts, Other Reviews, Shorts — other stuff I reviewed.
• Television — an alphabetical list of every TV programme I reviewed in 2017.
• Next Time — just in case you thought I was done with reflecting on last year.

Below is a graphical representation of my 2017 viewing, month by month. Each of the images links to the relevant monthly update, which contain a numbered list of everything I watched this year. This is also the only place where I’ve listed the 52 films of my Rewatchathon. There’s other exciting stuff in there too, like my monthly Arbie awards.

And now, the main event…

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
• 21 (2008)
• 22 Jump Street (2014)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• ’71 (2014)
• The Accountant (2016)
• Alien: Covenant (2017)
• Anomalisa (2015)
• Another Earth (2011)
• Antz (1998)
• Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2008)
• Assassin’s Creed [3D] (2016)
• Atomic Blonde (2017)
• Awakenings (1990)
• Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
• Baby Driver (2017)
• Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
• The BFG (2016)
• Big (1988)
• Big Game (2014)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Blair Witch (2016)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), aka Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
• Candyman (1992)
• Charlie Bartlett (2007)
• City of God (2002), aka Cidade de Deus
• Contact (1997)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Dances with Wolves (Special Edition) (1990/1991)
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Death Note (2006), aka Desu Nôto
• Death Note (2017)
• Death Note: The Last Name (2006), aka Desu Nôto: the Last name
• Demolition (2015)
• District 9 (2009)
• Don’t Breathe (2016)
• Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
• Drew: The Man Behind the Poster (2013)
• Drive (2011)
• The Driver (1978)
• Dunkirk (2017)
• Eddie the Eagle (2016)
• Elf (2003)
• Elstree 1976 (2015)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Eye in the Sky (2015)
• Fandango (1985)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• Four Lions (2010)
• Free Fire (2016)
• Frost/Nixon (2008)
• Get Out (2017)
• Ghost in the Shell (2017)
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004), aka Kôkaku Kidôtai Inosensu
• Ghostbusters (2016), aka Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
• The Girl on the Train (2016)
• The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
• Gran Torino (2008)
• The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
• The Great Wall [3D] (2016)
• Green Room (2015)
• Guardians (2017), aka Zashchitniki
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
• Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• Headshot (2016)
• The Heat (2013)
• Hell or High Water (2016)
• Her (2013)
• Hidden Figures (2016)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
• iBoy (2017)
• In a Valley of Violence (2016)
• In the Loop (2009)
• Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
• Inferno (2016)
• Into the Wild (2007)
• Into the Woods (2014)
• It Follows (2014)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Jersey Boys (2014)
• John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (2008)
• Justice League (2017)
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
• Kong: Skull Island (2017)
• Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
• The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
• The LEGO Batman Movie [3D] (2017)
• Life (2017)
• Lion (2016)
• Lions for Lambs (2007)
• Logan (2017)
• London Has Fallen (2016)
• Long Way North (2015), aka Tout en haut du monde
• The Magnificent Seven (2016)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Men in Black 3 (2012)
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
• Moana [3D] (2016)
• Money Monster (2016)
• The Monster Squad (1987)
• Moon (2009)
• Moonlight (2016)
• The Mummy (2017)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• Nashville (1975)
• New Tale of Zatoichi (1963), aka Shin Zatôichi monogatari
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• Ninja Scroll (1993), aka Jūbē Ninpūchō
• Nocturnal Animals (2016)
• Now You See Me 2 (2016)
• Passengers [3D] (2016)
• Perfect Sense (2011)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017), aka Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Police Academy (1984)
• Public Access (1993)
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
• RocknRolla (2008)
• Room (2015)
• Rurouni Kenshin (2012), aka Rurōni Kenshin
• Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014), aka Rurōni Kenshin: Kyôto taika-hen
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014), aka Rurōni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen
• Saludos Amigos (1942)
• San Andreas (2015)
• Scrooged (1988)
• Shin Godzilla (2016), aka Shin Gojira
• Silence (2016)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• Sing [3D] (2016)
• Sing Street (2016)
• Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (2015), aka The Peanuts Movie
• Space Jam (1996)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• Split (2016)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Sully (2016), aka Sully: Miracle on the Hudson
• T2 Trainspotting (2017)
• Tea for Two (1950)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
• That’s Entertainment! (1974)
• This is the End (2013)
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
• Train to Busan (2016), aka Busanhaeng
• Transformers: Age of Extinction [3D] (2014)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Twin Peaks (1990), aka Twin Peaks: Pilot (International Version)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
• Under the Shadow (2016)
• Underworld: Blood Wars [3D] (2016)
• Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets [3D] (2017)
• Vehicle 19 (2013)
• Vintage Tomorrows (2015)
• Vixen (2017)
• War for the Planet of the Apes [3D] (2017)
• War on Everyone (2016)
• Warcraft (2016), aka Warcraft: The Beginning
• What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
• Wonder Woman (2017)
• Yojimbo (1961), aka Yôjinbô
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Your Name. (2016), aka Kimi no na wa.
• Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963), aka Zatôichi kyôjô-tabi

Alternate Cuts

• Mad Max: Fury Road – Black & Chrome Edition (2015/2016)

Other Reviews

• Finding Nemo (2003)
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (2014)
• Jaws (1975)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
• Prometheus 3D (2012)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Big Screen Edition) (2009)
• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), aka Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series

Shorts

• Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
• Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
• Blade Runner 2048: Nowhere to Run (2017)
• Deadpool: No Good Deed (2017)
• Hotel Chevalier (2007)

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Across 16 ‘monthly’ columns I reviewed a significant amount of television this year, and so I thought I should include it in my wrap-up. But rather than just link to 16 posts each containing a grab-bag of programming, I thought it would be more useful to list every series I commented on and then link to the relevant post(s). That also shows up just how much TV I watch…

• 24: Legacy Season 1 Episodes 1-4, 5-8, 9-12
• 300 Years of French and Saunders
• The 89th Academy Awards, aka The Oscars
• Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year Series 4 Episodes 1-2
• The Americans Season 5
• Armchair Detectives Episode 1
• Arrow Season 5 Episodes 8, 9-11, 21-23, Season 6 Episodes 1-2
• Automata Season 1
• Black Mirror White Christmas
• The Bletchley Circle Series 1-2
• Bounty Hunters Series 1 Episodes 1-2, 3-6
• The British Academy Film Awards 2017, aka The BAFTAs
• Broadchurch Series 3 Episodes 1-3, 4-8
• Car Share Series 2
• Castle Season 8 Episodes 1-3, 4-9
• A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
• Cowboy Bebop Episodes 23-26
• The Crown Season 1
• Death in Paradise Series 6 Episodes 2-6, 7-8
• The Defenders Season 1
• Designated Survivor Season 1
• Detectorists Series 3
• Doctor Foster Series 2
• Doctor Who Series 10 Episodes 1, 2-5, 6-9, 10-12, 2017 Christmas special
• The Dresser
• Elementary Season 5 Episodes 1-3, 4-9, 10-13
• Eurovision Song Contest: Kyiv 2017
• The Flash Season 3 Episodes 8, 10-11, 17, 21-23, Season 4 Episodes 1-2, 3-6
• The Galaxy Britain Built
• Game of Thrones Season 7 Episodes 1, 2-5, 6-7
• General Election 2017
• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
• The Good Place Season 1
• Grantchester Series 3 Episodes 4-6
• The Great British Bake Off Series 8 Episodes 1-3, 4-8
• The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice Series 4 Episodes 1-3
• The Highway Rat
• Iron Fist Season 1
• Jamestown Series 1 Episodes 1, 2-3
• The Kettering Incident Season 1
• The League of Gentlemen 20th anniversary specials
• Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 7
• Let’s Sing and Dance for Comic Relief Series 1 Episodes 1-2
• Line of Duty Series 2, Series 3 Episodes 1-3, 4-6
• Luther Series 4
• The Miniaturist
• The Missing Series 2
• Mrs. Brown’s Boys 2017 Christmas special
• The Musketeers Series 3 Episodes 1-3, 5-6, 9-10
• Our Friend Victoria Episodes 1-6
• Outnumbered 2016 Christmas special
• Peaky Blinders Series 1, Series 2, Series 3
• Peter Pan Goes Wrong
• The Persuaders! Episodes 1-5, 6-13
• Preacher Season 2 Episodes 1-2
• The Punisher Season 1
• Red Dwarf Series 12 Episodes 1-3, 4-6
• Rick and Morty Season 1 Episodes 1, 2
• A Series of Unfortunate Events Season 1
• Sherlock Pilot, Series 4
• Snow Bears
• Stranger Things Season 2
• The Thick of It The Specials
• Tim Vine Travels Through Time Pilot, Christmas special
• Top of the Lake: China Girl
• Twin Peaks Season 1, Season 2 Episodes 1-9, 10-22, Season 3 Episodes 1-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-14, 15-16, 17-18
• Unforgotten Series 1, Series 2
• Upstart Crow Series 2, Christmas special
• Vicious Series Finale
• Wallander Series 4 Episodes 1, 2-3
• Who Dares Wins Series 9 Episodes 5-6
• Would I Lie to You? Series 11 Episodes 1-4

Tomorrow (hopefully): analysing all of the above in exciting statistics!

Soon: ranking all (well, some) of the above in my lists of the best and worst films I saw this year.