Year-End Lists

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

[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012]

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
10. Baden Baden — Rachel Lang

Another ten, in no particular order

11. Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
13. High-Rise — Ben Wheatley
14. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
15. Creepy — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
16. Sully — Clint Eastwood
17. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
18. Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
19. The Childhood of a Leader — Brady Corbet
20. April and the Extraordinary World — Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares

Fifteen more, in little particular order

21. The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
22. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
23. 11 Minutes — Jerzy Skolimowski
24. Bleak Street — Arturo Ripstein
25. Paths of the Soul — Zhang Yang
26. Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
27. Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
28. Indignation — James Schamus
29. Miss Hokusai — Keiichi Hara
30. Always Shine — Sophia Takal
31. The Wailing — Na Hong-jin
32. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
33. 13th — Ava DuVernay

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

34. My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
35. The Mermaid — Stephen Chow
36. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
37. Bleed for This — Ben Younger
38. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
39. Nocturnal Animals — Tom Ford
40. Florence Foster Jenkins — Stephen Frears
41. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) — Abbas Fahdel
42. The Nice Guys — Shane Black
43. De Palma — Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
44. Joshy — Jeff Baena
45. Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
46. Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke

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

47. Belladonna of Sadness — Eiichi Yamamoto
48. Private Property — Leslie Stevens
49. Only Yesterday — Isao Takahata