26 of the year's best movies no one saw

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High praise, low box office

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Carole Bethuel; Everett Collection; Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios; Jaap Buitendijk/Sony

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.

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Kedi (Ceyda Torun)

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Oscilloscope Laboratories

Release date: Feb. 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 98%

Metacritic: 78

Domestic box office: $2.8 million

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A United Kingdom (Amma Asante)

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Stanislav Honzik/Fox Searchlight

Release date: Feb. 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

Metacritic: 65

Domestic box office: $3.9 million

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Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)

Personal Shopper
Carole Bethuel

Release date: March 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Metacritic: 77

Domestic box office: $1.3 million

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T2 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)

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Jaap Buitendijk

Release date: March 17

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 67

Domestic box office: $2.4 million

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Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)

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Neon

Release date: April 7

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Metacritic: 70

Domestic box office: $3 million

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Their Finest (Lone Scherfig)

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NICOLA DOVE/STX Entertainment

Release date: April 7

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

Metacritic: 76

Domestic box office: $3.6 million

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A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)

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A Quiet Passion/Hurricane Films/Music Box Films

Release date: April 14

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Metacritic: 77

Domestic box office: $1.9 million

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The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs)

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A24

Release date: May 5

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

Metacritic: 76

Domestic box office: $2.2 million

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The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein)

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Everett Collection

Release date: May 12

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

Metacritic: 72

Domestic box office: $1.4 million

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The Hero (Brett Haley)

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Beth Dubber

Release date: June 9

Rotten Tomatoes: 77%

Metacritic: 61

Domestic box office: $4.1 million

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My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell)

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Nicola Dove

Release date: June 9

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 63

Domestic box office: $2.7 million

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A Ghost Story (David Lowery)

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A24 Films

Release date: July 10

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 84

Domestic box office: $1.6 million

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Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)

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Roadside Attractions

Release date: July 14

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

Metacritic: 76

Domestic box office: $1.1 million

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk)

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Jensen Walker/Paramount

Release date: July 28

Rotten Tomatoes: 78%

Metacritic: 68

Domestic box office: $3.5 million

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Menashe (Joshua Z Weinstein)

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Federica Valabrega/A24

Release date: July 28

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 81

Domestic box office: $1.7 million

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Brigsby Bear (Dave McCary)

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MONGREL MEDIA

Release date: July 28

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 68

Domestic box office: $532,669

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Columbus (Kogonada)

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Everett Collection

Release date: Aug. 4

Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

Metacritic: 89

Domestic box office: $1 million

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Step (Amanda Lipitz)

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Everett Collection

Release date: Aug. 4

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

Domestic box office: $1.1 million

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Good Time (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)

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A24

Release date: Aug. 11

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Metacritic: 80

Domestic box office: $2 million

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Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)

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Neon

Release date: Aug. 11

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

Metacritic: 71

Domestic box office: $3 million

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Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper)

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Jeong Park/Fox Searchlight

Release date: Aug. 18

Rotten Tomatoes: 82%

Metacritic: 67

Domestic box office: $800,148

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Stronger (David Gordon Green)

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Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions

Release date: Sept. 22

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 76

Domestic box office: $4.2 million

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Faces Places (Agnès Varda, JR)

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Everett Collection

Release date: Oct. 6

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Metacritic: 95

Domestic box office: $504,653

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson)

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Claire Folger / Annapurna Pictures

Release date: Oct. 13

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Metacritic: 68

Domestic box office: $1.6 million

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)

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Atsushi Nishijima/A24

Release date: Oct. 20

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 73

Domestic box office: $2.2 million

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Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)

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Cinetic Media

Release date: Oct. 20

Rotten Tomatoes: 72%

Metacritic: 71

Domestic box office: $1 million

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