Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 25 Best TV Shows of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

1. Atlanta
2. The Americans
3. BoJack Horseman
4. The Girlfriend Experience
5. Silicon Valley
6. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
7. Horace and Pete
8. Better Call Saul
9. Transparent
10. The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
11. High Maintenance
12. Black Mirror
13. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
14. Girls
15. American Crime
16. The Night Of
17. Broad City
18. Easy
19. South Park
20. American Horror Story: Roanoke
21. Jane the Virgin
22. Bob’s Burgers
23. Insecure
24. Happy Valley
25. Orange is the New Black

Shelly Kraicer: 12 Best Films of 2016

• The Dreamed Path
  Angela Schanelec
• The Summer is Gone
  Zhang Dalei
• Small Talk
  Huang Hui-chen
• Kaili Blues
  Bi Gan
• People That Are Not Me
  Hadas Ben Aroya
• The Wasted Times
  Cheng Er
• By the Time It Gets Dark
  Anocha Suwichakornpong
• Crosscurrent
  Yang Chao
• Toni Erdmann
  Maren Ade
• Singularity
  Albert Serra
• Lemonade
  Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and Tod Tourso
• Sieranevada
  Cristi Puiu

Library Journal: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2016

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. House of Lords and Commons
   Ishion Hutchinson
2. Olio
   Tyehimba Jess
3. Incidents of Travel in Poetry

   New and Selected Poems
   Frank Lima
4. ShallCross
   C.D. Wright
5. Night Sky With Exit Wounds
   Ocean Vuong

Library Journal: 10 Best Books of 2016

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1. Evicted

   Poverty and Profit in the American City
   Matthew Desmond
2. In the Darkroom
   Susan Faludi
3. The Nix
   Nathan Hill
4. To the Bright Edge of the World

   A Novel
   Eowyn Ivey
5. The Gene

   An Intimate History
   Siddhartha Mukherjee
6. Blood at the Root

   A Racial Cleansing in America
   Patrick Phillips
7. While the City Slept

   A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness
   Eli Sanders
8. American Heiress

   The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
   Jeffrey Toobin
9. All the Single Ladies

   Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
   Rebecca Traister
10. The Underground Railroad
    Colson Whitehead

Dana Stevens: Top 15 Movies of 2016, as published by Slate

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1-10, in chronological order

• Krisha
  Trey Edward Shults
• Notfilm
  Ross Lipman
• Love & Friendship
  Whit Stillman
• Certain Women
  Kelly Reichardt
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• Manchester by the Sea
  Kenneth Lonergan
• The Edge of Seventeen
  Kelly Fremon Craig
• La La Land
  Damien Chazelle
• Neruda
  Pablo Larraín
• Toni Erdmann
  Maren Ade

11-15 Runners-Up, in alphabetical order

• Finding Dory
  Andrew Stanton
• The Fits
  Anna Rose Holmer
• Hell or High Water
  David Mackenzie
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• Silence
  Martin Scorsese

Michael Phillips: 20 Best Movies of 2016, as published by The Chicago Tribune

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1. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
2. La La Land
   Damien Chazelle
3. Manchester by the Sea
   Kenneth Lonergan
4. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
5. O.J.: Made in America
   Ezra Edelman
6. Krisha
   Trey Edward Shults
7. The Witch
   Robert Eggers
8. Hell or High Water
   David Mackenzie
9. Don’t Think Twice
   Mike Birbiglia
10. The Fits
    Anna Rose Holmer

11-20 Alphabetically

• Certain Women
  Kelly Reichardt
• Fences
  Denzel Washington
• The Handmaiden
  Park Chan-wook
• The Illinois Parables
  Deborah Stratman
• The Invitation
  Karyn Kusama
• Little Men
  Ira Sachs
• Love & Friendship
  Whit Stillman
• The Lobster
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Pete’s Dragon
  David Lowery
• Queen of Katwe
  Mira Nair

Steve Erickson: 20 Best Films of 2016, as published by Gay City News

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015 • 2014]

1. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
2. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
3. No Home Movie
   Chantal Akerman
4. ‘Til Madness Do Us Part
   Wang Bing
5. Right Now, Wrong Then
   Hong Sang-soo
6. Certain Women
   Kelly Reichardt
7. Elle
   Paul Verhoeven
8. Things to Come
   Mia Hansen-Løve
9. I Am Not Your Negro
   Raoul Peck
10. The Mermaid
    Stephen Chow

Runners-up (alphabetically)

• 10 Cloverfield Lane
  Dan Trachtenberg
• 13th
  Ava DuVernay
• Arrival
  Denis Villeneuve
• The Handmaiden
  Park Chan-wook
• Little Men
  Ira Sachs
• The Lobster
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Neither Heaven Nor Earth
  Clément Cogitore
• Notfilm
  Ross Lipman
• Pervert Park
  Frida and Lasse Barkfors
• The Witness
  James D. Solomon

Drowned in Sound: 16 Favourite Albums of 2016

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1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. Skeleton Tree
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
3. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It
   The 1975
4. Hopelessness
   ANOHNI
5. Fading Lines
   Amber Arcades
6. Preoccupations
   Preoccupations
7. My Woman
   Angel Olsen
8. Blond
   Frank Ocean
9. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
10. Night Thoughts
    Suede
11. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
12. Lemonade
    Beyoncé
13. SVIIB
    School Of Seven Bells
14. Let Them Eat Chaos
    Kate Tempest
15. Atrocity Exhibition
    Danny Brown
16. Blisters In the Pit of My Heart
    Martha

Jeremy D. Larson: Favorite Albums of 2016

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. Blackstar
   David Bowie
2. Hopelessness
   ANOHNI
3. A Moon Shaped Pool
   Radiohead
4. Atrocity Exhibition
   Danny Brown
5. Skeleton Tree
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
6. 22, A Million
   Bon Iver
7. Lemonade
   Beyoncé
8. Upstepping
   Oliver Coates
9. Jeffery
   Young Thug
10. 99.9%
    KAYTRANADA
11. Mangy Love
    Cass McCombs
12. Light Upon the Lake
    Whitney
13. Blood Bitch
    Jenny Hval
14. My Woman
    Angel Olsen
15. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
    A Tribe Called Quest
16. Arrival
    Jóhann Jóhannsson
17. New View
    Eleanor Friedberger
18. Human Performance
    Parquet Courts
19. Puberty 2
    Mitski
20. Preoccupations
    Preoccupations

gal-dem: Best Albums of 2016, in chronological order

[see also 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

• Malibu
  Anderson .Paak
• The Birds Outside Sang
  Florist
• The Life of Pablo
  Kanye West
• 99¢
  Santigold
• Untitled Unmastered
  Kendrick Lamar
• A Good Night in the Ghetto
  Kamaiyah
• Afterlife
  DJ Rashad
• SECURITY
  Gaika
• Lemonade
  Beyoncé
• Konnichiwa
  Skepta
• The Colour in Anything
  James Blake
• Coloring Book
  Chance The Rapper
• Puberty 2
  Mitski
• Church
  Kelsey Lu
• Princess
  ABRA
• Telefone
  Noname
• Blond
  Frank Ocean
• 1992
  Princess Nokia
• The Healing Component
  Mick Jenkins
• Six Paths
  Dave
• Lamentations
  Moses Sumney
• A Seat at the Table
  Solange
• Big Baby DRAM
  DRAM
• Durt
  Ray BLK
• Black Focus
  Yussef Kamaal
• We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service
  A Tribe Called Quest
• "Awaken, My Love!"
  Childish Gambino
• 4 Your Eyez Only
  J. Cole
• Real Ting
  Stefflon Don
• Stillness in Wonderland
  Little Simz