Year-End Lists

Glenn Kenny: 50 Noteworthy Films of 2016 (released in the United States)

1. Cosmos
   Andrzej Zulawski
2. Silence
   Martin Scorsese
3. Paterson
   Jim Jarmusch
4. Toni Erdmann
   Maren Ade
5. The Love Witch
   Anna Biller
6. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
7. The Fits
   Anna Rose Holmer
8. Things to Come
   Mia Hansen-Løve
9. Hail, Caesar!
   Joel & Ethan Coen
10. Evolution
    Lucile Hadzihalilovic
10. Baden Baden
    Rachel Lang

Another ten, in no particular order

11. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
12. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
13. High-Rise
    Ben Wheatley
14. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
15. Creepy
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
16. Sully
    Clint Eastwood
17. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
18. Love & Friendship
    Whit Stillman
19. The Childhood of a Leader
    Brady Corbet
20. April and the Extraordinary World
    Franck Ekinci, Christian Desmares

Fifteen more, in little particular order

21. The Other Side
    Roberto Minervini
22. Kate Plays Christine
    Robert Greene
23. 11 Minutes
    Jerzy Skolimowski
24. Bleak Street
    Arturo Ripstein
25. Paths of the Soul
    Zhang Yang
26. Kaili Blues
    Bi Gan
27. Wiener-Dog
    Todd Solondz
28. Indignation
    James Schamus
29. Miss Hokusai
    Keiichi Hara
30. Always Shine
    Sophia Takal
31. The Wailing
    Na Hong-jin
32. Kubo and the Two Strings
    Travis Knight
33. 13th
    Ava DuVernay

Should be seen by every citizen of the United States at the very least

34. My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin
35. The Mermaid
    Stephen Chow
36. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
37. Bleed for This
    Ben Younger
38. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
39. Nocturnal Animals
    Tom Ford
40. Florence Foster Jenkins
    Stephen Frears
41. Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)
    Abbas Fahdel
42. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
43. De Palma
    Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow
44. Joshy
    Jeff Baena
45. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie
46. Mountains May Depart
    Jia Zhang-ke

Stuff that was amazing but wasn’t made in 2015/16

47. Belladonna of Sadness
    Eiichi Yamamoto
48. Private Property
    Leslie Stevens
49. Only Yesterday
    Isao Takahata