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IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2016

19 December 2016

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2016 (as voted by 200 critics)

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  1. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  2. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  3. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
  4. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  5. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
  6. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
  7. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
  8. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
  9. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie
  10. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
  11. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
  12. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
  13. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
  14. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  15. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  16. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
  17. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
  18. The Fits
    Anna Rose Holmer
  19. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
  20. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
  21. Aquarius
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  22. Love & Friendship
    Whit Stillman
  23. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
  24. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  25. Sing Street
    John Carney
  26. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
  27. Things to Come
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  28. Loving
    Jeff Nichols
  29. Nocturnal Animals
    Tom Ford
  30. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
  31. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
  32. A Bigger Splash
    Luca Guadagnino
  33. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
  34. Kubo and the Two Strings
    Travis Knight
  35. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  36. Krisha
    Trey Edward Shults
  37. Chevalier
    Athina Rachel Tsangari
  38. Hail, Caesar!
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  39. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Taika Waititi
  40. Swiss Army Man
    Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
  41. I, Daniel Blake
    Ken Loach
  42. 13th
    Ava DuVernay
  43. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
  44. Weiner
    Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
  45. Fire at Sea
    Gianfranco Rosi
  46. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra
  47. Neruda
    Pablo Larraín
  48. Captain Fantastic
    Matt Ross
  49. The Neon Demon
    Nicolas Winding Refn
  50. Christine
    Antonio Campos

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