New Zealand's film critics* have named satirical horror Get Out the best film of 2017.
Other titles in the top 10 include Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok and Waru, a collection of short films directed exclusively by female Māori directors.
The top 10 films of 2017 according to New Zealand critics are as follows:
- Get Out
- Dunkirk
- Blade Runner 2049
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Waru
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- Call Me By Your Name
- Baby Driver
- Moonlight
- A Ghost Story
Jordan Peele's directorial debut Get Out follows a young African-American man as he meets his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend at their secluded estate in the woods - which turns into a deadly nightmare.
Newshub's Kate Rodger awarded the film five stars in her review, calling it "a delicious mind-bender, the blackest of humour and enduringly provocative".
"[Get Out] suggests the iconic, politically charged, zeitgeist-defining wallop of your Romeros and Carpenters of yesteryear," wrote Aaron Yap, who also gave it five stars for Flicks.co.nz.
* The list was compiled by critics for Flicks, Letterboxd, Newshub, The Spinoff, The Listener, NZ Herald, Stuff, Newsroom, Pantograph Punch, Sunday Star-Times and The Wireless, among others.
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