Year-End Lists

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2016 Movies

Metro: Matt Prigge: 25 Best Films of 2016

31 December 2016

Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade

Matt Prigge: 25 Best Films of 2016, as published by Metro

[see also 2015 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  2. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  3. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
  4. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
  5. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
  6. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
  7. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
  8. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
  9. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  10. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
  11. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
  12. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  13. Things to Come
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  14. Love & Friendship
    Whit Stillman
  15. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
  16. The Treasure
    Corneliu Porumboiu
  17. Kate Plays Christine
    Robert Greene
  18. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  19. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
  20. Little Men
    Ira Sachs
  21. My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin
  22. Aquarius
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  23. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
  24. Weiner
    Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
  25. The Fits
    Anna Rose Holmer

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