It's a harrowing story neatly shaped into melodrama by Danish writer-director Martin Zandvliet. Land of Mine is about a group of young German soldiers, most of them teenagers, who have been sent to Denmark's west coast at the end of WWII to help clear it of landmines, even though they've received only rudimentary training. Look, we know it's not the most scientific method invented, but you try and get seven experts on film to agree and see how you go. That gave us a number for each film, and that gave us our final ranking. Then we ranked them, with each person's top film getting 10 points, and their 10th getting one. We culled that long list by dropping films that only one person nominated, but still ended up with 20 films that garnered multiple votes.Ī Ghost Story conjures a moving reflection on memory and the passage of life into death. Their lists varied so wildly that we ended up with more than 40 films nominated. We asked each of our three critics – Jake Wilson, Sandra Hall and Paul Byrnes – and our regular film writers – Stephanie Bunbury, Garry Maddox, Craig Mathieson and Karl Quinn – to nominate their top 10 movies of the year. The first thing the eagle-eyed among you will notice is that we've started from the bottom who doesn't like a bit of suspense? The next thing you might spot is that there are in fact 11 films on this list: that's because we had a three-way tie for fifth, and two films garnering an equal number of votes for 10th place (you'll also notice there's no six or seven on this list, thanks to that triple-header at No.5). We hope you find something to agree with, but we're sure you'll find plenty to disagree with too.

Welcome to our annual round-up of the best movies of the year.

Top 10 best movies 2017