Michael Sicinski: Top 10 Films of 2016 (limited to “poll-eligible” films)
[see also The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the Decade, Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018, Top 50 Films of 2018, Top 25 Films of 2017, Top 12 Films of 2014, Top 10 Films of 2013, Top 12 Films of 2012]
- Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Homo sapiens — Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman