Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Movies
The Handmaiden - Park Chan-wook

Daniel Barnes: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck

Jason Bailey: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

O.J.: Made in America - Ezra Edelman

Saul Austerlitz: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Taika Waititi

Edwin Arnaudin: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

Cemetery of Splendor - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Michael J. Anderson: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House - Osgood Perkins

Ethan Alter: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

The Red Turtle - Michael Dudok de Wit

Carlos Aguilar: IndieWire Best Films of 2016

Mark Kermode: Observer Best Films of 2016

The Death of Louis XIV - Albert Serra

James Quandt: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Paterson - Jim Jarmusch

Brandon Harris: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

20th Century Women - Mike Mills

John Powers: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

Simran Hans: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade

Robert Hanks: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Sieranevada - Cristi Puiu

Andréa Picard: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Cameraperson - Kirsten Johnson

Robert Greene: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

The Illinois Parables - Deborah Stratman

Michael Pattison: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

The Illinois Parables - Deborah Stratman

Catherine Grant: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Cameraperson - Kirsten Johnson

Ania Ostrowska: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

The Human Surge - Eduardo Williams

Leo Goldsmith: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Knight of Cups - Terrence Malick

Michał Oleszczyk: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

The Fits - Anna Rose Holmer

Suzy Gillett: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

American Honey - Andrea Arnold

Jane Giles: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

The Illinois Parables - Deborah Stratman

Ben Nicholson: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016

Under the Shadow - Babak Anvari

Kim Newman: Sight & Sound Best Films of 2016