Good Time: The ulimate ranking of 2017’s best indie films
If you’re looking for something new to stream and still catching up on the best indie films from 2017, the conversation keeps circling back to the same dozen titles. I, Tonya remains a sharp, divisive entry point with Margot Robbie and Allison Janney delivering career-best work in Craig Gillespie’s take on the Tonya Harding saga. The ranking of twelve standouts from that year still holds up as a useful map, even as availability shifts and audience opinions settle into clearer patterns.
Streaming Availability Update
The Little Hours currently runs on Hulu, Prime Video, and fuboTV, with free ad-supported runs on Pluto TV and Tubi. I, Tonya sits on Tubi with ads or for purchase and rental elsewhere. Those options replace the older Hulu mention for I, Tonya and give viewers straightforward places to catch the twelfth film on the list without guessing.
Reception and Audience Response
The Tomatometer score holds at 78 percent from more than 127 reviews, yet the audience score lands between 48 and 55 percent. On IMDb the user rating sits at 5.8 out of 10 from nearly 29,000 votes. The gap between critic and viewer numbers reflects the film’s bawdy tone and limited theatrical reach, which still shapes how people find and discuss it years later.
Cast and Creative Team Highlights
Beyond Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie, the ensemble pulls in Kate Micucci, Dave Franco, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, and Fred Armisen. Jeff Baena directed, working from a loose adaptation of stories in Boccaccio’s Decameron. The expanded lineup turns the convent comedy into a broader showcase for comedians comfortable with period language and deadpan timing.
Where The Little Hours Fits in 2017 Indie Landscape
The film premiered at Sundance in January 2017 and reached theaters on June 30 through Gunpowder & Sky. It landed in a year already crowded with strong indie releases, yet its Sundance slot and modest June rollout gave it a clear path to the specialty circuit without competing against larger studio titles.
12. The Little Hours
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78% Because who doesn’t love a good film about rebellious foul-mouthed nuns who occasionally indulge their sapphic side with each other? Particularly when that film stars Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie as two such sisters of the cloth. The full cast includes Kate Micucci, Dave Franco, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, and Fred Armisen, all under Jeff Baena’s direction and drawn from Boccaccio’s Decameron stories. The Tomatometer score draws from 127-plus reviews, while audience scores sit lower, underscoring the divide between critics who enjoyed the irreverence and viewers who found the humor uneven.
The ranking keeps its original order, but the added context around availability, reception numbers, and creative details gives a clearer picture of how The Little Hours continues to circulate. Viewers who missed it in 2017 can now decide whether the raunchy convent premise still lands or whether the mixed audience response signals a different kind of curiosity. Either way, the entry remains a useful checkpoint in the 2017 indie conversation rather than a forgotten footnote.
