IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2016 (as voted by 200 critics)
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
- Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
- Jackie — Pablo Larraín
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- The Witch — Robert Eggers
- Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
- Sing Street — John Carney
- 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
- Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Loving — Jeff Nichols
- Nocturnal Animals — Tom Ford
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino
- Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
- Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight
- Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
- Chevalier — Athina Rachel Tsangari
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Taika Waititi
- Swiss Army Man — Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
- I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
- 13th — Ava DuVernay
- Sunset Song — Terence Davies
- Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
- Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
- Embrace of the Serpent — Ciro Guerra
- Neruda — Pablo Larraín
- Captain Fantastic — Matt Ross
- The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Christine — Antonio Campos