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Village Voice: Top 50 Films of 2016

21 December 2016

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2016 (as published by The Village Voice, comprised of votes from 124 critics)

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  1. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  2. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  3. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
  4. Paterson
    Jim Jarmusch
  5. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
  6. La La Land
    Damien Chazelle
  7. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
  8. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
  9. Cameraperson
    Kirsten Johnson
  10. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
  11. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  12. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  13. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  14. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
  15. Hell or High Water
    David Mackenzie
  16. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
  17. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
  18. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
  19. Love & Friendship
    Whit Stillman
  20. Things to Come
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  21. I Am Not Your Negro
    Raoul Peck
  22. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  23. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
  24. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
  25. 13th
    Ava DuVernay
  26. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
  27. The Fits
    Anna Rose Holmer
  28. The Love Witch
    Anna Biller
  29. Green Room
    Jeremy Saulnier
  30. Fire at Sea
    Gianfranco Rosi
  31. Loving
    Jeff Nichols
  32. The Neon Demon
    Nicolas Winding Refn
  33. The Witch
    Robert Eggers
  34. Hail, Caesar!
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  35. Sing Street
    John Carney
  36. Tower
    Keith Maitland
  37. Fences
    Denzel Washington
  38. Aquarius
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
  39. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
  40. Weiner
    Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
  41. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
  42. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
    Taika Waititi
  43. The Edge of Seventeen
    Kelly Fremon Craig
  44. Sully
    Clint Eastwood
  45. The Other Side
    Roberto Minervini
  46. I, Daniel Blake
    Ken Loach
  47. My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin
  48. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra
  49. The Nice Guys
    Shane Black
  50. Julieta
    Pedro Almodóvar

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