Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2016 (as published by The Village Voice, comprised of votes from 124 critics)
[see also 2017, 2015, 2012, 2011]
- Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
- Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
- Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
- Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
- O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
- La La Land — Damien Chazelle
- Elle — Paul Verhoeven
- The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
- Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
- Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
- Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
- The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
- Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
- Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
- Silence — Martin Scorsese
- Jackie — Pablo Larraín
- American Honey — Andrea Arnold
- Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
- Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
- I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
- Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
- Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
- 13th — Ava DuVernay
- 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
- The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
- The Love Witch — Anna Biller
- Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
- Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
- Loving — Jeff Nichols
- The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Witch — Robert Eggers
- Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
- Sing Street — John Carney
- Tower — Keith Maitland
- Fences — Denzel Washington
- Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
- Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
- Sunset Song — Terence Davies
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Taika Waititi
- The Edge of Seventeen — Kelly Fremon Craig
- Sully — Clint Eastwood
- The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
- I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
- My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
- Embrace of the Serpent — Ciro Guerra
- The Nice Guys — Shane Black
- Julieta — Pedro Almodóvar