

In all, 603 films released during 2017 received at least seven reviews from top professional critics. There were 11 such films in the past year, down just slightly from a record-high 12 in 2016. That said, 2017 marked the third consecutive year that the number of truly outstanding films-marked by Metascores of 90 or higher-was in the double digits.

And the year's highest-scoring, English-language narrative film, Dunkirk, scored "only" 94. It's the first time in five years that no film has exceeded a score of 95. For the first time in the 21st century, a documentary has taken the title of Metacritic's highest-scoring movie of the year.įaces Places, which finds 89-year-old director Agnes Varda roaming the French countryside with 33-year-old photo-muralist J.R., outscored all other releases in 2017.
