Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2016, as published by The New Yorker
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Little Sister — Zach Clark
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Sully — Clint Eastwood
- Viktoria — Maya Vitkova
- Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
- Men Go to Battle — Zachary Treitz
- Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
- Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
- Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- Krisha — Trey Edward Shults
- Pete’s Dragon — David Lowery
- Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke
- For the Plasma — Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan
- 13th — Ava DuVernay
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
- The Witness — James D. Solomon
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- Sunset Song — Terence Davies
- Dog Eat Dog — Paul Schrader
- The Treasure — Corneliu Porumboiu
- Tower — Keith Maitland
- Nuts! — Penny Lane
- Mia Madre — Nanni Moretti
- Southside with You — Richard Tanne
- Michael Moore in TrumpLand — Michael Moore
- The Birth of a Nation — Nate Parker
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- Embrace of the Serpent — Ciro Guerra
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- Hidden Figures — Theodore Melfi