Year-End Lists

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]

1. Moonlight — Barry Jenkins
2. Manchester by the Sea — Kenneth Lonergan
3. Toni Erdmann — Maren Ade
4. Paterson — Jim Jarmusch
5. O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman
6. La La Land — Damien Chazelle
7. Elle — Paul Verhoeven
8. The Handmaiden — Park Chan-wook
9. Cameraperson — Kirsten Johnson
10. Certain Women — Kelly Reichardt
11. Cemetery of Splendor — Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12. No Home Movie — Chantal Akerman
13. The Lobster — Yorgos Lanthimos
14. Arrival — Denis Villeneuve
15. Hell or High Water — David Mackenzie
16. Silence — Martin Scorsese
17. Jackie — Pablo Larraín
18. American Honey — Andrea Arnold
19. Love & Friendship — Whit Stillman
20. Things to Come — Mia Hansen-Løve
21. I Am Not Your Negro — Raoul Peck
22. Happy Hour — Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
23. Everybody Wants Some!! — Richard Linklater
24. Right Now, Wrong Then — Hong Sang-soo
25. 13th — Ava DuVernay
26. 20th Century Women — Mike Mills
27. The Fits — Anna Rose Holmer
28. The Love Witch — Anna Biller
29. Green Room — Jeremy Saulnier
30. Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rosi
31. Loving — Jeff Nichols
32. The Neon Demon — Nicolas Winding Refn
33. The Witch — Robert Eggers
34. Hail, Caesar! — Joel & Ethan Coen
35. Sing Street — John Carney
36. Tower — Keith Maitland
37. Fences — Denzel Washington
38. Aquarius — Kleber Mendonça Filho
39. Knight of Cups — Terrence Malick
40. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
41. Sunset Song — Terence Davies
42. Hunt for the Wilderpeople — Taika Waititi
42. The Edge of Seventeen — Kelly Fremon Craig
44. Sully — Clint Eastwood
45. The Other Side — Roberto Minervini
46. I, Daniel Blake — Ken Loach
47. My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin
48. Embrace of the Serpent — Ciro Guerra
48. The Nice Guys — Shane Black
50. Julieta — Pedro Almodóvar