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2016

All films seen with a first national release or festival screening I attended in 2016, ranked.

This decade

  • La La Land

    1

  • O.J.: Made in America

    2

  • Toni Erdmann

    3

  • Moonlight

    4

  • Arrival

    5

  • Paterson

    6

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

    7

  • Hell or High Water

    8

  • Captain Fantastic

    9

  • I, Daniel Blake

    10

  • Gleason

    11

  • Jackie

    12

  • The Witch

    13

  • Zootopia

    14

  • HyperNormalisation

    15

  • The Love Witch

    16

  • Nocturama

    17

  • Graduation

    18

  • Morris from America

    19

  • Loving

    20

  • Tickled

    21

  • Manchester by the Sea

    22

  • The Salesman

    23

  • A Quiet ion

    24

  • My Life as a Zucchini

    25

  • Swiss Army Man

    26

  • Author: The JT LeRoy Story

    27

  • Sing Street

    28

  • One Week and a Day

    29

  • Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

    30

  • Little Men

    31

  • Life, Animated

    32

  • A Date for Mad Mary

    33

  • Jim: The James Foley Story

    34

  • Weiner

    35

  • 20th Century Women

    36

  • Girl Asleep

    37

  • The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki

    38

  • Tower

    39

  • Your Name.

    40

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    41

  • Neruda

    42

  • Houston, We Have a Problem!

    43

  • 13th

    44

  • Starless Dreams

    45

  • Team Foxcatcher

    46

  • Captain America: Civil War

    47

  • Hamilton's America

    48

  • Rara

    49

  • Aquarius

    50

  • Krisha

    51

  • Moana

    52

  • The Edge of Seventeen

    53

  • Blue Jay

    54

  • Everybody Wants Some!!

    55

  • Other People

    56

  • A Silent Voice: The Movie

    57

  • Don't Think Twice

    58

  • Operation Avalanche

    59

  • Frantz

    60

  • The Nice Guys

    61

  • Dangal

    62

  • A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

    63

  • The Handmaiden

    64

  • Before the Flood

    65

  • Ethel & Ernest

    66

  • Train to Busan

    67

  • The Light Between Oceans

    68

  • Indignation

    69

  • The Innocents

    70

  • Lion

    71

  • Personal Shopper

    72

  • Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang

    73

  • Fantastic Lies

    74

  • Eddie the Eagle

    75

  • American Honey

    76

  • Under the Sun

    77

  • The Red Turtle

    78

  • Kate Plays Christine

    79

  • Notes on Blindness

    80

  • On the Other Side

    81

  • Nocturnal Animals

    82

  • De Palma

    83

  • Kills on Wheels

    84

  • The Childhood of a Leader

    85

  • The Fits

    86

  • The Fundamentals of Caring

    87

  • Hail, Caesar!

    88

  • Elvis & Nixon

    89

  • A Monster Calls

    90

  • Bad Black

    91

  • Ovarian Psycos

    92

  • Midnight Special

    93

  • The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

    94

  • Divines

    95

  • Cameraperson

    96

  • Hidden Figures

    97

  • Christine

    98

  • Fire at Sea

    99

  • The Intervention

    100