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26 of the year's best movies no one saw

Joey Nolfi

December 1, 2017 at 7:12 PM

High praise, low box office

Kedi (Ceyda Torun)

A United Kingdom (Amma Asante)

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)

Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)

The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs)

The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein)

The Hero ( Brett Haley)

My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell)

A Ghost Story (David Lowery)

Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk)

Menashe (Joshua Z Weinstein)

Brigsby Bear (Dave McCary)

Columbus (Kogonada)

Step (Amanda Lipitz)

Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)

Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)

Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper)

Stronger (David Gordon Green)

Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR)

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)

High praise, low box office

Superheroes and big-budget sequels gobbled up the biggest box office grosses of 2017, leaving plenty of room for critical darlings to slip through the cracks, beyond the reach of casual audiences. From Kristen Stewart's Personal Shopper to Julianne Moore's Wonderstruck, here are 26 films mainstream moviegoers brushed aside this year.

Carole Bethuel; Everett Collection; Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios; Jaap Buitendijk/Sony

2017: Best movies no one saw

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