Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: Top 25 Movies of 2016, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017]

1. Silence — Martin Scorsese
2. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
3. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
4. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
5. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
6. My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
7. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
8. I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
9. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
10. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt

And 15 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• American Honey — Andrea Arnold
• Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
• A Bigger Splash — Luca Guadagnino
• Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
• Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Elle — Paul Verhoeven
• The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
• Jackie — Pablo Larraín
• Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
• La La Land — Damien Chazelle
• Last Days in the Desert — Rodrigo García
• Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
• Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke
• The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
• Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve