Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2016, as published by ScreenCrush
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Sing Street — John Carney
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Demon — Marcin Wrona
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
- Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
- The Boy and the Beast — Mamoru Hosoda
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- Fences — Denzel Washington
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- Star Trek Beyond — Justin Lin
- The Witch — Robert Eggers