Joshua Rothkopf: Best Movies of 2016, as published by Time Out New York
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011]
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Jackie — Pablo Larraín
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- De Palma — Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
- A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino
- The Eyes of My Mother — Nicolas Pesce
- The Nice Guys — Shane Black
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
- Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
- Hardcore Henry — Ilya Naishuller
- Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
- The Witch — Robert Eggers