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

Melissa Anderson: 10 Best Movies of 2016

11 December 2016

Melissa Anderson: 10 Best Movies of 2016, as published by Artforum

[see also 2018, 2015]

  1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
  2. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
  3. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
  4. Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  5. Fort Buchanan — Benjamin Crotty
  6. Born in Flames — Lizzie Borden
  7. Regrouping — Lizzie Borden
  8. An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall, Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
  9. The Ornithologist — João Pedro Rodrigues
  10. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
  11. Hermia & Helena — Matías Piñeiro

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