The 30 Best Films of 2016 reflect a remarkable year in cinema, where emotional honesty, artistic ambition, and bold storytelling came together in unforgettable ways. As the world faced cultural and political upheaval, filmmakers responded with a wide range of powerful stories that felt both personal and universal. It was a year defined by contrasts, where independent gems stood shoulder to shoulder with studio triumphs, and fresh voices commanded just as much attention as seasoned masters.
From the aching beauty of Moonlight, which offered a groundbreaking meditation on identity and self-discovery, to the exuberant romance of La La Land, which brought the movie musical into the modern age with style and heart, 2016 was rich with cinematic highlights. Manchester by the Sea delivered a raw and quietly devastating exploration of grief, while The Handmaiden captivated with its intricate narrative and stunning visual elegance.
Our rankings take into account critical acclaim, audience reception, and cultural relevance. These are the 30 films that defined 2016, works of passion and precision that continue to inspire conversation and admiration. Whether intimate character studies or sweeping epics, they remind us of the enduring magic of cinema and its ability to illuminate the human experience.
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Top10nerScore71.883 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Theodore Melfi
WRITERS: Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mandy Walker
STARRING: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Biopic
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Hidden Figures shines with precision and heart, celebrating the brilliant Black women whose calculations launched NASA’s space success. It combines historical accuracy, charismatic performances, and empowering storytelling to reclaim a vital chapter of science history with grace, urgency, and overdue recognition.
Top10nerScore71.930 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Julia Ducournau
WRITERS: Julia Ducournau
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ruben Impens
STARRING: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss
GENRE: Horror
SUB-GENRE: Body Horror
THEME: Coming-of-Age, Cannibal
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
Raw is a feral coming-of-age tale that sinks its teeth into themes of identity, repression, and desire. Julia Ducournau’s fearless direction pairs unsettling body horror with startling emotional intimacy, turning veterinary school into a crucible of blood-soaked self-discovery that’s as tender, tragic, and terrifying as adolescence itself.
Top10nerScore72.162 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Andrea Arnold
WRITERS: Andrea Arnold
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robbie Ryan
STARRING: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi, Arielle Holmes
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Road Movie, Coming-of-Age
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
American Honey dives headfirst into the chaotic poetry of adolescence, using vérité style and ambient Americana to track a girl’s escape into a world both wild and wounded. Sasha Lane’s magnetic debut and Shia LaBeouf’s volatile charm fuel a road movie that sings a rebellious, slow-burning anthem of lost youth and defiant hope.
Top10nerScore72.310 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Sunao Katabuchi
WRITERS: Sunao Katabuchi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yuya Kumazawa
STARRING: Non, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Natsuki Inaba, Minori Omi, Daisuke Ono
GENRE: Animation, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Anime, Period Drama
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life’s amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
In This Corner of the World paints wartime Hiroshima with gentle, evocative strokes, blending pastel beauty and quiet sorrow through Suzu’s tender eyes. Its delicate animation contrasts the harshness of history, offering a deeply human portrait of endurance, memory, and the fragile poetry of everyday life in the face of tragedy.
Top10nerScore72.381 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Kleber Mendonça Filho
WRITERS: Kleber Mendonça Filho
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Fabricio Tadeu, Pedro Sotero
STARRING: Sônia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão
GENRE: Drama
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
In Aquarius, Sônia Braga commands the screen with grace, defiance, and emotional precision, embodying a woman who refuses to be displaced or diminished. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s direction turns stillness into suspense, memory into rebellion, and Clara’s quiet strength into a stirring symbol of dignity against corporate erasure.
Top10nerScore72.458 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Michael Dudok de Wit
WRITERS: Michael Dudok de Wit
GENRE: Animation, Drama
THEME: Survival
Stranded on a deserted tropical island, a man struggles to survive. Gradually acquiring the skills he needs to stay alive, he tries to get off the island on a makeshift raft, only to encounter a giant turtle living in the open sea that will change his life.
The Red Turtle is a hauntingly beautiful fable that speaks volumes without a single word. Through Studio Ghibli’s minimalist collaboration with Michaël Dudok de Wit, it explores solitude, nature, and the quiet poetry of life with stunning grace, crafting a meditative tale as serene, mysterious, and emotionally resonant as the sea itself.
Top10nerScore72.545 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Asghar Farhadi
WRITERS: Asghar Farhadi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hossein Jafarian
STARRING: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi
GENRE: Drama
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
In The Salesman, Farhadi dissects vengeance, masculinity, and fractured trust with surgical calm, unraveling a couple’s emotional unraveling amid Tehran’s theater and tight domestic spaces. Drawing from Death of a Salesman while grounded in Iranian reality, it’s a slow-burning descent into moral ambiguity and everyday performance.
Top10nerScore72.628 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Matt Ross
WRITERS: Matt Ross
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Stéphane Fontaine
STARRING: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Troietta Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, Frank Langella, Ann Dowd
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
THEME: Road Movie
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, beginning a journey that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Captain Fantastic is a fiercely intelligent, offbeat odyssey that questions modern society through the lens of an idealistic father raising philosopher-warriors deep in the wilderness. Viggo Mortensen leads with raw grace, grounding this tender, anarchic tale of radical ideals, family bonds, and the messy beauty of learning to let go.
Top10nerScore72.996 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Mel Gibson
WRITERS: Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Simon Duggan
STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Biopic
THEME: War
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Hacksaw Ridge delivers a raw, unflinching portrait of nonviolent heroism amid WWII’s brutal chaos. Mel Gibson’s visceral direction captures both the relentless horrors of war and the quiet, immovable conviction of Desmond Doss, whose faith and courage turn pacifism into an act of valor more explosive than any weapon ever fired.
Top10nerScore73.273 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Garth Davis
WRITERS: Luke Davies
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Greig Fraser
STARRING: Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Abhishek Bharate
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Biopic, Period Drama
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Lion is a soul-stirring odyssey of identity, memory, and belonging, weaving modern technology with deep emotional truths in a moving search for home. Patel delivers a tender, career-defining performance, while Fraser’s luminous cinematography captures the ache of lost roots and the quiet triumph of rediscovery with tearful, poetic beauty.
Top10nerScore73.743 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese
WRITERS: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rodrigo Prieto
STARRING: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano, Issey Ogata
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama, Jidaigeki
THEME: Religious Film
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Silence immerses viewers in a bleak crucible where faith is relentlessly tested by silence and suffering. Scorsese’s restrained visuals, meticulous craftsmanship, and intense performances evoke a spiritual battle that is as much internal as external. This film demands quiet contemplation and rewards it with a deep, unsettling grace.
Top10nerScore73.781 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Mike Mills
WRITERS: Mike Mills
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sean Porter
STARRING: Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann, Billy Crudup
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age
In Santa Barbara, determined single mother Dorothea is in her 50s and raising her teenage son Jamie at a moment of cultural change. To help Jamie’s upbringing she enlists two younger women: the free-spirited artist Abbie lodging in Dorothea’s home, and Julie, a savvy, provocative teenage neighbor.
20th Century Women is a tender mosaic of 1970s California, capturing the complexities of motherhood, youth, and rebellion through three unforgettable women. With radiant performances and a keen eye for cultural detail, this intimate portrait challenges norms while celebrating the messy beauty of finding your own voice.
Top10nerScore74.355 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Travis Knight
WRITERS: Chris Butler, Marc Haimes, Shannon Tindle
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Frank Passingham
STARRING: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara
GENRE: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
SUB-GENRE: Fairy Tale, Stop-Motion, Puppet Animation
THEME: Family
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Kubo and the Two Strings is a hauntingly beautiful stop-motion epic that channels the spirit of Japanese folklore through Laika’s intricate craftsmanship. With breathtaking visuals, a resonant score by Dario Marianelli, and a poignant tale of memory, magic, and sacrifice, it weaves a story as delicate and enduring as origami in the wind.
Top10nerScore74.867 / 100
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DIRECTORS: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
WRITERS: Phil Johnston, Jared Bush
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nathan Warner
STARRING: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake
GENRE: Animation, Comedy, Crime
SUB-GENRE: Computer Animation
THEME: Family, Buddy, Fable
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia’s police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case – even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Zootopia dazzles as a neon-bright noir wrapped in animal antics, using its bustling metropolis to explore bias, identity, and trust with surprising depth. Smartly scripted and gorgeously animated, it’s a sly, heartfelt tale where predator and prey must confront the real jungle: the complexity of societal prejudice and fear.
Top10nerScore75.679 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Ken Loach
WRITERS: Paul Laverty
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robbie Ryan
STARRING: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Briana Shann, Dylan McKiernan
GENRE: Drama
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
I, Daniel Blake is a searing indictment of bureaucratic cruelty, told with Loach’s unflinching realism and quiet fury. Anchored by Johns’s raw and deeply affecting performance, it captures the dignity and despair of working-class struggle with heartbreaking clarity, exposing a system that punishes the vulnerable while pretending to serve them.
Top10nerScore75.767 / 100
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DIRECTOR: John Carney
WRITERS: John Carney
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yaron Orbach
STARRING: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Ben Carolan, Mark McKenna, Kelly Thornton, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Aidan Gillen
GENRE: Drama, Comedy, Romance
THEME: Coming-of-Age, Music, Teen Movie
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Sing Street is a joyous rebellion dressed in skinny ties and synth-pop swagger, where teenage longing collides with DIY ambition. John Carney weaves raw garage band energy and romantic idealism into a stylish, emotionally rich coming-of-age tale that feels like a mixtape of youthful hope, heartache, and harmony.
Top10nerScore75.937 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Na Hong-jin
WRITERS: Na Hong-jin
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hong Kyung-pyo
STARRING: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura, Kim Hwan-hee, Heo Jin
GENRE: Mystery, Horror
SUB-GENRE: Supernatural Horror, K-Horror, Folk Horror
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
The Wailing builds dread with masterful patience, conjuring a slow-burning horror that fuses Korean folklore, biblical dread, and psychological despair. Na Hong-jin crafts a spiritual nightmare where every clue deceives, every ritual backfires, and evil wears many faces, leaving viewers disturbed and questioning what they just witnessed.
Top10nerScore76.529 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Yeon Sang-ho
WRITERS: Park Joo-suk
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lee Hyung-deok
STARRING: Gong Yoo, Kim Su-an, Jung Yu-mi, Don Lee, Choi Woo-shik, An So-hee, Kim Eui-sung
GENRE: Thriller, Horror
THEME: Zombie, Survival, Epidemic, Train Movie
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Train to Busan expertly blends pulse-pounding horror with incisive class critique, transforming a claustrophobic train ride into a tense moral crucible. Yeon Sang-ho delivers a genre masterwork where every station challenges humanity and every zombie bite cuts deeper than flesh. An undead thriller rich with heart, soul, and social urgency.
Top10nerScore76.800 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Claude Barras
WRITERS: Céline Sciamma, Claude Barras, Morgan Navarro, Germano Zullo
CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Toutevoix
STARRING: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera, Estelle Hennard, Elliot Sanchez
STARRING (ENGLISH): Erick Abbate, Ness Krell, Romy Beckman, Nick Offerman, Barry Mitchell, Clara Young, Finn Robbins
GENRE: Drama, Animation
SUB-GENRE: Puppet Animation
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
My Life as a Zucchini is a gentle triumph of stop-motion storytelling, turning the lives of orphaned children into a quietly profound meditation on loss, trust, and healing. With painterly visuals, stripped-down dialogue, and raw emotional honesty, it speaks to the resilience of youth with disarming warmth and grace.
Top10nerScore76.874 / 100
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DIRECTOR: David Mackenzie
WRITERS: Taylor Sheridan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Giles Nuttgens
STARRING: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
GENRE: Crime, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Neo-Western, Heist Film
THEME: Buddy
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas.
Hell or High Water is a searing heist drama rooted in recession-era desperation, where brotherhood, justice, and broken systems collide in haunting clarity. David Mackenzie directs with a patient, observational lens, capturing cracked landscapes and moral ambiguity in a film that’s as politically charged as it is emotionally resonant.
Top10nerScore76.997 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Jim Jarmusch
WRITERS: Jim Jarmusch
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Frederick Elmes
STARRING: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Slice of Life
A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.
Paterson captures the beauty of stillness with an elegance few films attempt, where daily rituals and handwritten verse form a meditative loop. Jarmusch’s direction is purposefully spare, allowing Adam Driver’s tender, internal performance to resonate. It’s a soft-spoken ode to unnoticed lives, where the mundane quietly becomes the miraculous.
Top10nerScore77.978 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Naoko Yamada
WRITERS: Reiko Yoshida
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kazuya Takao
STARRING: Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yuki, Kensho Ono
GENRE: Drama, Animation
SUB-GENRE: Melodrama, Anime
THEME: Coming-of-Age
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again… until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more.
A Silent Voice captures adolescence with heartbreaking clarity, portraying Shoya and Shoko’s intertwined pain through evocative animation and understated storytelling. It’s a rare anime that confronts trauma, isolation, and the need for connection with honesty and grace, crafting a redemptive arc as quiet and powerful as its title implies.
Top10nerScore78.339 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Maren Ade
WRITERS: Maren Ade
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Patrick Orth
STARRING: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn
GENRE: Drama, Comedy
SUB-GENRE: Cringe Comedy, Absurdist Comedy
Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.
With Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade transforms awkwardness into a razor-sharp critique of modern alienation, blending absurdist humor with aching sincerity. Through a father’s surreal attempts to reach his daughter, the film explores identity, performance, and the cost of losing touch with one’s soul in a corporate world.
Top10nerScore78.843 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Taika Waititi
WRITERS: Taika Waititi
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Lachlan Milne
STARRING: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Mike Minogue, Rhys Darby
GENRE: Comedy, Adventure, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
THEME: Buddy, Coming-of-Age
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople delivers a cinematic odd-couple odyssey through the New Zealand bush, where deadpan humor collides with heartfelt sincerity. Taika Waititi blends rhythmic editing, stylized visuals, and rich character work to craft a story that’s visually inventive, emotionally resonant, and delightfully unpredictable.
Top10nerScore80.998 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Kenneth Lonergan
WRITERS: Kenneth Lonergan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jody Lee Lipes
STARRING: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Manchester by the Sea is a haunting meditation on grief and guilt, anchored by Casey Affleck’s quietly devastating performance. Kenneth Lonergan’s direction unfolds like memory itself, fractured and tender, with a realism that cuts deep. The film paints a portrait of loss that lingers like the cold salt air of the Massachusetts coast.
Top10nerScore81.304 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Damien Chazelle
WRITERS: Damien Chazelle
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Linus Sandgren
STARRING: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend
GENRE: Musical, Romance, Drama
Sebastian and Mia are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
La La Land sparkles as a modern-day ode to classic Hollywood musicals, bursting with vibrant colors, enchanting jazz, and the bittersweet dance between dreams and reality. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling’s chemistry lifts this bittersweet love story into a dazzling celebration of hope, heartbreak, and the price of chasing stardom.
Top10nerScore83.028 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve
WRITERS: Eric Heisserer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bradford Young
STARRING: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
GENRE: Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama
THEME: Extraterrestrial, Alien Invasion
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Arrival elevates alien contact into a profound exploration of language, memory, and human connection. With its haunting score, precise visual storytelling, and a contemplative lead performance, the film bends narrative time to reveal how truly understanding others reshapes our own existence in unexpected, poignant, and beautifully complex ways.
Top10nerScore83.460 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Makoto Shinkai
WRITERS: Makoto Shinkai
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Makoto Shinkai, Hitomi Fukuzawa
STARRING: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryo Narita, Aoi Yuki
GENRE: Animation, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Anime, Low Fantasy
THEME: Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Your Name. weaves a tender, time-bending romance filled with breathtaking visuals and heartfelt emotion. Makoto Shinkai’s delicate storytelling captures the magic of connection and the ache of longing, making this animated journey a luminous meditation on fate, memory, and the invisible threads that bind us all.
Top10nerScore87.057 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Barry Jenkins
WRITERS: Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney
CINEMATOGRAPHY: James Laxton
STARRING: Trevante Rhodes, Ashton Sanders, Alex R. Hibbert, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Jharrel Jerome
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age, LGBTQ+
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Moonlight unfolds like a whispered secret, a tender exploration of identity, masculinity, and love told in three luminous chapters. Jenkins crafts a visually poetic and emotionally immersive journey where silence speaks volumes and vulnerability becomes strength, capturing the fragile beauty of a life quietly fighting to be seen and accepted.
Top10nerScore87.505 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Park Chan-wook
WRITERS: Park Chan-wook, Chung Seo-kyung
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jeong Jeong-hun
STARRING: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Hae-sook
GENRE: Thriller, Erotica, Drama, Romance
SUB-GENRE: Erotic Thriller, Period Drama
THEME: LGBTQ+
In 1930s Korea, a new girl is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate. But the maid has a secret: She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler, who is posing as a Japanese Count, to help him seduce the Lady and steal her fortune.
The Handmaiden is a gorgeously perverse labyrinth of betrayal, identity, and liberation, wrapped in silk and subversion. With Park Chan-wook’s masterful framing, razor-sharp structure, and a fearless critique of colonial and gender dynamics, it unfolds with such precision and beauty as to claim its place as…
The Best Film of 2016
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| A Monster Calls | 2016 |
| After the Storm | 2016 |
| Captain America: Civil War | 2016 |
| Dangal | 2016 |
| Deadpool | 2016 |
| Doctor Strange | 2016 |
| Elle | 2016 |
| Endless Poetry | 2016 |
| Ethel & Ernest | 2016 |
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 |
| Frantz | 2016 |
| Moana | 2016 |
| Nocturnal Animals | 2016 |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 2016 |
| Shin Godzilla | 2016 |
| Swiss Army Man | 2016 |
| The Edge of Seventeen | 2016 |
| The Invisible Guest | 2016 |
| The Nice Guys | 2016 |
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