Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2016 Movies

Glenn Kenny: 50 Noteworthy Films of 2016

31 December 2016

Glenn Kenny: 50 Noteworthy Films of 2016 (released in the United States)

[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010s]

  1. Cosmos — Andrzej Zulawski
  2. Silence — Martin Scorsese
  3. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
  4. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
  5. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
  6. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
  7. The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
  8. Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
  9. Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
  10. Evolution — Lucile Hadzihalilovic
  11. Baden Baden — Rachel Lang

    Another ten, in no particular order

  1. Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  2. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
  3. High-Rise — Ben Wheatley
  4. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
  5. Creepy — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  6. Sully — Clint Eastwood
  7. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
  8. Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
  9. The Childhood of a Leader — Brady Corbet
  10. April and the Extraordinary World — Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares

    Fifteen more, in little particular order

  1. The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
  2. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
  3. 11 Minutes — Jerzy Skolimowski
  4. Bleak Street — Arturo Ripstein
  5. Paths of the Soul — Zhang Yang
  6. Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
  7. Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
  8. Indignation — James Schamus
  9. Miss Hokusai — Keiichi Hara
  10. Always Shine — Sophia Takal
  11. The Wailing — Na Hong-jin
  12. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
  13. 13th — Ava DuVernay

    Should be seen by every citizen of the United States at the very least

  1. My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
  2. The Mermaid — Stephen Chow
  3. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
  4. Bleed for This — Ben Younger
  5. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
  6. Nocturnal Animals — Tom Ford
  7. Florence Foster Jenkins — Stephen Frears
  8. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) — Abbas Fahdel
  9. The Nice Guys — Shane Black
  10. De Palma — Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
  11. Joshy — Jeff Baena
  12. Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
  13. Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke

    Stuff that was amazing but wasn’t made in 2015/16

  1. Belladonna of Sadness — Eiichi Yamamoto
  2. Private Property — Leslie Stevens
  3. Only Yesterday — Isao Takahata

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