Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2016

[see also 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
2. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
3. Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
4. Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
5. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
6. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
7. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
8. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
9. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
10. The Treasure — Corneliu Porumboiu
11. Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
12. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
13. Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
14. Sunset Song — Terence Davies
15. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
16. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
17. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
18. Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
19. The Illinois Parables — Deborah Stratman
20. Homo sapiens — Nikolaus Geyrhalter
21. Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
22. The Academy of Muses — José Luis Guerín
23. Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
24. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) — Abbas Fahdel
25. The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
26. Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
27. In the Shadow of Women — Philippe Garrel
28. Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
29. Neon Bull — Gabriel Mascaro
30. Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
31. The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
32. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
33. Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
34. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
35. Mia Madre — Nanni Moretti
36. Aferim! — Radu Jude
37. The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
38. Midnight Special — Jeff Nichols
39. Little Men — Ira Sachs
40. Cosmos — Andrzej Zulawski
41. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party — Stephen Cone
42. Do Not Resist — Craig Atkinson
43. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
44. Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke
45. Demon — Marcin Wrona
46. Creepy — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
47. Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
48. I Am Not Madame Bovary — Feng Xiaogang
49. 13th — Ava DuVernay
50. Fort Buchanan — Benjamin Crotty