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The Best Movies of 1997: AV Club

Hindsight is 20/20. Does it get sharper when the distance between then and now is 20 years? The A.V. Club wasn't putting together best-of lists in 1997, so it's impossible to know how this retroactive ranking of the year's movies might compare with one compiled by the staff at the time—especially since that staff has changed dramatically in the interim. So don't think of the following hierarchy of great films (all released theatrically in America sometime in '97) as a snapshot of how anyone, these writers included, felt back then. We've had two decades to mull 12 months of movies, to let them marinate in our imaginations, and to catch up with the sleepers we've missed. The years have been kind to the films below. To others, not so much. Remember when anyone thought As Good As It Gets was as good as it gets? We were so young once.
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The Apostle (1997)
The Apostle (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   90%
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Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
4
Crash (1996)
Crash (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   63%
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Breakdown (1997)
Breakdown (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   91%
7
The Ice Storm (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   86%
8
La Promesse (1996)
La Promesse (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   95%
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Happy Together (1997)
Happy Together (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   82%
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In the Company of Men (1997)
In the Company of Men (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
11
The Game (1997)
The Game (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   77%
12
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
13
L.A. Confidential (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   99%
14
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   98%
15
Titanic (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
16
Starship Troopers (1997)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   66%
17
Boogie Nights (1997)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Irma Vep (1996)
Irma Vep (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   93%
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Face/Off (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   92%
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
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