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From Turkish Cats To Nazi Attacks, Film Experts Pick The Best Movies Of 2017

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2017 was a big year for new movie releases, but film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes managed to narrow down their lists of favorites to share.

Selections include “Kedi,” a documentary about the cats of Istanbul, Netflix original “Mudbound,” about two sharecropping families, and the box office-crushing release of “Wonder Woman.”

Host Frank Stasio talks with Marsha Gordon, film professor at North Carolina State University, and Laura Boyes, film curator at the North Carolina Museum of Art, about 2017 movies of note. 

A look back at some of 2017's best and worst films with film professor Marsha Gordon and film curator Laura Boyes.

The Big Sick (2017)

3 Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Get Out (2017)

Mudbound (2017)

The Beguiled (2017)

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Jennifer Brookland is a temporary producer for The State of Things.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.