Ranking every Hong Kong film released in 2017, from worst to best
Hong Kong cinema didn’t have its greatest year, with very few noteworthy releases. However, there are some pearls, most of which come from upcoming talent. Here are 45 of this year’s films in reverse order
There’s no other way to get around it: this has been a truly underwhelming year for Hong Kong cinema. Seeing a slight decline in both quantity and general quality, the locally produced Chinese-language films that end up receiving a commercial release in our cinemas in the past 12 months have mostly failed to make a mark in our collective consciousness.
But while a few industry veterans turned out mediocre efforts that proved very forgettable (we regret missing out on a few of those, which received so little publicity and did so poorly in the box office that they almost instantly vanished from cinemas after their first screenings), the silver lining of the year has to be the steady emergence of new filmmakers with refreshing perspectives and passion to spare.
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And while several of them are ranked high on our list, the top spot of this year’s list is, perhaps unsurprisingly, courtesy of one of the last true masters of Hong Kong cinema. Here is your (almost complete) list of every Hong Kong film released in 2017, ranked from worst to best.
