Justin Chang: Top 25 Movies of 2016, as published by The Los Angeles Times
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017]
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- 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