Sunday, January 1, 2017

2016



1. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
2. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
3. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
4. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
5. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
6. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
7. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
8. The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
9. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
10. Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)
11. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

Almost There: 13th (Ava DuVernay), Arrival (Denis Villeneuve), Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie), Little Sister (Zach Clark), Moonlight (Barry Jenkins), The Nice Guys (Shane Black), Tower (Keith Maitland), Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari), The Wailing (Na Hong-jin), Zootopia (Byron Howard and Rich Moore and Jared Bush).

Least Favorite: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder).

Have Yet to See: The Age of Shadows (Kim Jee-woon), American Honey (Andrea Arnold), Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa), Being 17 (Andre Techine), The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig), Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch), I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach), Jackie (Pablo Larrain), Little Men (Ira Sachs), Naruda (Pablo Larrain), Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello), Paterson (Jim Jarmusch), Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas), A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies), The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi), Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie), Sully (Clint Eastwood), The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne).