| Rank | Critic | Publication | List Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mallory Andrews | Cinema Scope | 2017 |
| 1 | Sean Axmaker | Parallax View | 2017 |
| 1 | Baale | Miriam | 2017 |
| 1 | Miriam Bale | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 2 | Neil Bahadur | Toronto Film Reviews | 2017 |
| Marko Balaban | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| Bob Berney | Amazon Studios | 2017 | |
| 1 | Matt Blais | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Cahiers du Cinema | 2017 | |
| 1 | Jean-Sebastien Chauvin | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Jamie Christley | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 1 | Adam Cook | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 2 | Denis Cote | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Jordan Cronk | Toronto Film Review/Film Comment | 2017 |
| Bruno Dequen | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| Dennis Dermody | Paper Magazine | 2017 | |
| 4 | Jeff Deutchman | NEON | 2017 |
| Simon Ennis | Toronto Film Comment | 2017 | |
| 6 | The Film Stage | 2017 | |
| 1 | Hugh Gibson | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Zac Goldkind | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 2 | Mitch Greenberg | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Bob Grimm | Tucson Weekly | 2017 |
| 10 | Joe Gross | Austin Statesman Journal | 2017 |
| 1 | Aaron Hillis | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 1 | Robert Horton | Seattle Weekly | 2017 |
| 2 | Richard T. Jameson | Parallax View | 2017 |
| Randy Jones | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| 1 | Nellie Killian | Film Comment | 2017 |
| 1 | Robert Koehler | Cinema Scope | 2017 |
| 1 | Kyle Kohner | The Playlist | 2017 |
| Peter Kuplowsky | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| 1 | Peter Labuza | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 3 | Cody Lang | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Lee Lewis | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Dennis Lim | Lincoln Film Society/Film Comment | 2017 |
| 1 | Violet Lucca | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Willow Maclay | The Film Stage | 2017 |
| 1 | Calum Marsh | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 1 | Peter Merriman | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Angelo Muredda | Village Voice Film Poll | 2017 |
| 2 | Manu Yanez Murillo | Film Comment | 2017 |
| 3 | Gaspard Nectoux | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Nick Newman | Film Stage | 2017 |
| 3 | Mehdi Pilehvarian | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| Matias Pineiro | Film Comment | 2017 | |
| 1 | Nick Pinkerton | Film Comment | 2017 |
| 1 | John Powers | Vogue Magazine | 2017 |
| 1 | Thomas Prieto | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| CJ Prince | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| Vadim Rizov | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| Brian Robertson | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| 9 | Sophy Romvari | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 1 | Niles Schwartz | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |
| 2 | Sight and Sound | 2017 | |
| 1 | Michael Glover Smith | White City Cinema | 2017 |
| 10 | Amy Taubin | Artforum | 2017 |
| 1 | Ethan Vestby | Toronto Film Reivew | 2017 |
| Kurt Walker | Toronto Film Review | 2017 | |
| 5 | Joel Wicklund | Chicago Now | 2017 |
| 1 | Blake Williams | Toronto Film Review | 2017 |