This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s always enjoyable video countdown: 25 Best Films of 2016.
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Sunset Song — Terence Davies
- Jackie — Pablo Larraín
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino
- Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Indignation — James Schamus
- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- The Witch — Robert Eggers
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- Swiss Army Man — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Always Shine — Sophia Takal
- Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
- Lemonade — Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
- High-Rise — Ben Wheatley
- Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg