Year-End Lists

Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2016, as published by The New Yorker

1. Little Sister
   Zach Clark
2. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
3. Sully
   Clint Eastwood
4. Viktoria
   Maya Vitkova
5. Love & Friendship
   Whit Stillman
6. Men Go to Battle
   Zachary Treitz
7. Wiener-Dog
   Todd Solondz
8. Kate Plays Christine
   Robert Greene
9. Happy Hour
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
10. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
11. Hail, Caesar!
    Joel & Ethan Coen
12. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
13. The Love Witch
    Anna Biller
14. Krisha
    Trey Edward Shults
15. Pete’s Dragon
    David Lowery
16. Mountains May Depart
    Jia Zhang-ke
17. For the Plasma
    Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan
18. 13th
    Ava DuVernay
19. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
20. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
21. The Witness
    James D. Solomon
22. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
23. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
24. Dog Eat Dog
    Paul Schrader
25. The Treasure
    Corneliu Porumboiu
26. Tower
    Keith Maitland
27. Nuts!
    Penny Lane
28. Mia Madre
    Nanni Moretti
29. Southside with You
    Richard Tanne
30. Michael Moore in TrumpLand
    Michael Moore
31. The Birth of a Nation
    Nate Parker
32. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
33. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra
34. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
35. Hidden Figures
    Theodore Melfi