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.
Kedi (Ceyda Torun)
Release date: Feb. 10
Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
Metacritic: 78
Domestic box office: $2.8 million
A United Kingdom (Amma Asante)
Release date: Feb. 10
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Metacritic: 65
Domestic box office: $3.9 million
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Release date: March 10
Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
Metacritic: 77
Domestic box office: $1.3 million
T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
Release date: March 17
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
Metacritic: 67
Domestic box office: $2.4 million
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)
Release date: April 7
Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
Metacritic: 70
Domestic box office: $3 million
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)
Release date: April 7
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 76
Domestic box office: $3.6 million
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
Release date: April 14
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
Metacritic: 77
Domestic box office: $1.9 million
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs)
Release date: May 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Metacritic: 76
Domestic box office: $2.2 million
The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein)
Release date: May 12
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Metacritic: 72
Domestic box office: $1.4 million
The Hero (Brett Haley)
Release date: June 9
Rotten Tomatoes: 77%
Metacritic: 61
Domestic box office: $4.1 million
My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell)
Release date: June 9
Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
Metacritic: 63
Domestic box office: $2.7 million
A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
Release date: July 10
Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Metacritic: 84
Domestic box office: $1.6 million
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
Release date: July 14
Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 76
Domestic box office: $1.1 million
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk)
Release date: July 28
Rotten Tomatoes: 78%
Metacritic: 68
Domestic box office: $3.5 million
Menashe (Joshua Z Weinstein)
Release date: July 28
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Metacritic: 81
Domestic box office: $1.7 million
Brigsby Bear (Dave McCary)
Release date: July 28
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
Metacritic: 68
Domestic box office: $532,669
Columbus (Kogonada)
Release date: Aug. 4
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
Metacritic: 89
Domestic box office: $1 million
Step (Amanda Lipitz)
Release date: Aug. 4
Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
Metacritic: 81
Domestic box office: $1.1 million
Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
Release date: Aug. 11
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: 80
Domestic box office: $2 million
Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
Release date: Aug. 11
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Metacritic: 71
Domestic box office: $3 million
Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper)
Release date: Aug. 18
Rotten Tomatoes: 82%
Metacritic: 67
Domestic box office: $800,148
Stronger (David Gordon Green)
Release date: Sept. 22
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
Metacritic: 76
Domestic box office: $4.2 million
Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR)
Release date: Oct. 6
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 95
Domestic box office: $504,653
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson)
Release date: Oct. 13
Rotten Tomatoes: 87%
Metacritic: 68
Domestic box office: $1.6 million
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Release date: Oct. 20
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
Metacritic: 73
Domestic box office: $2.2 million
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
Release date: Oct. 20
Rotten Tomatoes: 72%
Metacritic: 71
Domestic box office: $1 million
