Year-End Lists

This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s always enjoyable video countdown: 25 Best Films of 2016.

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
2. Sunset Song — Terence Davies
3. Jackie — Pablo Larraín
4. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
5. A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino
6. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
7. The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
8. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
9. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
10. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
11. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
12. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
13. Indignation — James Schamus
14. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
15. The Witch — Robert Eggers
16. Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
17. Silence — Martin Scorsese
18. Swiss Army Man — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
19. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
20. Always Shine — Sophia Takal
21. Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
22. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
23. Lemonade — Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
24. High-Rise — Ben Wheatley
25. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg