Year-End Lists

Notable, browsable lists of the year's best music, movies, books, and TV shows. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its authors, at the source.
2016 Movies

Matt Prigge: 25 Best Films of 2016

31 December 2016

Matt Prigge: 25 Best Films of 2016, as published by Metro

[see also 2015, 2012, 2011]

  1. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
  2. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
  3. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
  4. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
  5. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
  6. Silence — Martin Scorsese
  7. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
  8. The Nice Guys — Shane Black
  9. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
  10. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
  11. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
  12. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
  13. Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
  14. Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
  15. Sunset Song — Terence Davies
  16. The Treasure — Corneliu Porumboiu
  17. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
  18. Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  19. I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
  20. Little Men — Ira Sachs
  21. My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
  22. Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
  23. Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
  24. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
  25. The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer

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