Year-End Lists

Craig Lindsey: Top Ten Films of 2016, as published by RogerEbert.com

[see also 2025 • 2017]

• Aquarius
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Fences
  Denzel Washington
• Hell or High Water
  David Mackenzie
• I Am Not Your Negro
  Raoul Peck
• La La Land
  Damien Chazelle
• Manchester by the Sea
  Kenneth Lonergan
• Moonlight
  Barry Jenkins
• The Nice Guys
  Shane Black
• O.J.: Made in America
  Ezra Edelman
• Paterson
  Jim Jarmusch

Runner-ups

• The Edge of Seventeen
  Kelly Fremon Craig
• The Handmaiden
  Park Chan-wook
• A Monster Calls
  J.A. Bayona
• Mountains May Depart
  Jia Zhang-ke
• My Golden Days
  Arnaud Desplechin
• Pete’s Dragon
  David Lowery
• Queen of Katwe
  Mira Nair
• Right Now, Wrong Then
  Hong Sang-soo

Runner-ups (documentary)

• 13th
  Ava DuVernay
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
  Ron Howard
• Cameraperson
  Kirsten Johnson
• De Palma
  Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
• Kate Plays Christine
  Robert Greene
• Life, Animated
  Roger Ross Williams
• Tower
  Keith Maitland
• Weiner
  Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg

This list contributes to:

• The Ten Best Films of 2016 RogerEbert.com
• Top 50 Films of 2016 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll