Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2016
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- The Treasure — Corneliu Porumboiu
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
- Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
- Sunset Song — Terence Davies
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
- The Illinois Parables — Deborah Stratman
- Homo sapiens — Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Kate Plays Christine — Robert Greene
- The Academy of Muses — José Luis Guerín
- Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
- Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) — Abbas Fahdel
- The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
- Kaili Blues — Bi Gan
- In the Shadow of Women — Philippe Garrel
- Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Neon Bull — Gabriel Mascaro
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Wiener-Dog — Todd Solondz
- 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
- Mia Madre — Nanni Moretti
- Aferim! — Radu Jude
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- Midnight Special — Jeff Nichols
- Little Men — Ira Sachs
- Cosmos — Andrzej Zulawski
- Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party — Stephen Cone
- Do Not Resist — Craig Atkinson
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Mountains May Depart — Jia Zhang-ke
- Demon — Marcin Wrona
- Creepy — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
- I Am Not Madame Bovary — Feng Xiaogang
- 13th — Ava DuVernay
- Fort Buchanan — Benjamin Crotty