2017 was a good year for originality in cinema. Films like Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and Chris Nolan’s Dunkirk took two familiar genres, action films and war films, and made them feel new again.

Superhero films will never get old for me, but the threat of fatigue is real for a lot of people. Thankfully the subgenre is still evolving with Logan, Wonder Woman and Thor: Ragnarok. Even Spider-Man: Homecoming managed to be interesting despite it being the millionth Spidey film.

Representation of minorities is important in a medium with an increasing audience of non-whites, and the box office numbers for Get Out, The Big Sick, Girls Trip and Coco prove that the public wants to see itself on the big screen. I’m still waiting for Asian actors to have more prominent roles, though, because they have been short-changed the most.

Amalgamated from Rotten Tomatoes, trusted news sources, friends’ opinions, and my own ratings, these are the movies from 2017 that are most likely the best of the year.*

*Does not include documentaries or foreign-language films.

January

Split

The Founder

February

The Lego Batman Movie

John Wick: Chapter 2

A United Kingdom

Get Out

The Girl with All the Gifts

Imperial Dreams (Netflix)

I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore (Netflix)

March

Logan

Raw

Personal Shopper

Prevenge

Burning Sands (Netflix)

April

Their Finest

The Lost City of Z

Tramps (Netflix)

May

The Lovers

Mindhorn (Netflix)

June

Wonder Woman

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

It Comes at Night

Megan Leavey

The Big Sick

Baby Driver

Okja (Netflix)

July

Spider-Man: Homecoming

A Ghost Story

War For the Planet of the Apes

Dunkirk

Girls Trip

Brigsby Bear

Detroit

Tour de Pharmacy (HBO)

August

Wind River

Ingrid Goes West

Good Time

Logan Lucky

Beach Rats

All Saints

September

It

Brad’s Status

Stronger

Battle of the Sexes

Lucky

American Made

October

Blade Runner 2049

The Florida Project

Marshall

Only the Brave

Brawl in Cell Block 99

Novitiate

The Meyerowitz Stories (Now and Selected) (Netflix)

November

Thor: Ragnarok

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Mayhem

Wonder

Mr. Roosevelt

Coco

Darkest Hour

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Call Me By Your Name

December

The Disaster Artist

The Shape of Water

I, Tonya

Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

The Post

Molly’s Game

Phantom Thread

All the Money in the World