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2017

Showing 27 works across all media from 2017

Comedy drama · Coming of age

Lady Bird

Directed by Greta Gerwig
2017

Gerwig's first solo film became the best reviewed of its year: a Sacramento teenager and her mother fight about everything, and the film refuses to take a side.

★ 7.6
Drama · Western

The Rider

Directed by Chloe Zhao
2017

Chloe Zhao cast a real rodeo rider and his real family to play themselves: the line between documentary and fiction never appears, and neither does a false note.

★ 7.3
Nonfiction · History

Against the Grain

A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
2017 · 336 pages

Grain built the first states, Scott argues, because it ripens on a schedule and can be counted while root crops hide underground. Early walls kept subjects in, and collapse came as relief.

★ 5.5
Nonfiction

The World-Ending Fire

The Essential Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
2017 · 368 pages

An economy that uses up land and people is not efficient but suicidal, Berry argues. He writes from a Kentucky hillside he farms with horses, and insists eating is an agricultural act.

★ 5.4
Speech · Political speech

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

Donald Trump
Inaugural Address of Donald Trump · 2017
★ 3.7
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