Best Movies of 2016: Every Film Approved by Our Critics This Year

Everyone ? including us ? has a top-10 list of 2016's best films. But maybe you've seen all those movies (or all the ones you intend to). Maybe you're looking for less predictable or more comprehensive suggestions. If those lists leave you hanging, the list below ? the 150-plus films that were favorably reviewed by our critics this year ? should keep you occupied at least until the top-10 lists of 2017 come around. January



In the Shadow of Women


Rams

Sweaty Betty

The Treasure February

Embrace of the Serpent

A.K.: The Making of Kurosawa's Ran
Already Tomorrow

Bad Hurt
Cemetery of Splendor
Knight of Cups

March

Too Late
City of Gold
Boom Bust Boom

Colliding Dreams

Everybody Wants Some!!

Fireworks Wednesday

Francofonia

Krisha

The Little Prince

Notfilm

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

River of Grass

A Space Program

They Will Have to Kill Us First


Transfixed


April


Tale of Tales
The Family Fang

A Touch of Zen

A Hologram for the King

Hockney

Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream

Sworn Virgin
Above and Below

Green Room

The Jungle Book
The Measure of a Man


May

O.J.: Made in America

Chevalier

Holy Hell

Paths of the Soul

Kaili Blues

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Weiner

The Lobster

Love & Friendship

A Monster With a Thousand Heads

Sunset Song

Band of Outsiders

Beautiful Something

Dheepan

Dragon Inn


June

Approaching the Unknown


Argentina

Cosmos

My Love Don't Cross That River

Tickled

Germans & Jews

Tikkun
The Final Master

The Fits

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July


Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru


At the Fork

Men Go to Battle

Under the Sun

Don't Blink
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Ants on a Shrimp

The Childhood of a Leader

Don't Think Twice

For the Plasma

Hooligan Sparrow

Summertime

Gleason

Hollywood Beauty Salon
Into the Forest

Miss Sharon Jones

August

Kubo and the Two Strings

The Land

Neither Heaven Nor Earth

Little Men

The Tenth Man

Will You Dance With Me

The Bride

Elevator to the Gallows

Abortion: Stories Women Tell

Disorder

Hell or High Water

Sudden Fear

Ixcanul

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Morris From America

Spa Night

When Two Worlds Collide

Happy Hour

Howards End

Mia Madre

Morgan September

Demon


As I Open My Eyes

Cameraperson
London Road

Bridget Jones' Baby

Command and Control

A Family Affair

Tanna

The Vessel

The Age of Shadows

Closet Monster

Ruins of Lifta

Among the Believers

Deepwater Horizon
A Man Called Ove

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Sand Storm

October

Moonlight

13th

Being 17

Blue Jay

Newtown

Phantasm: Remastered

Under the Shadow

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience

Aquarius

Asura: City of Madness

Certain Women

Kevin Hart: What Now?

Sky Ladder

Tower

Creepy

Fire at Sea

The Handmaiden

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

A Stray
The Uncondemned

Portrait of a Garden

November

Arrival

Loving

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Elle

Iron Moon

The Love Witch

The Monster

The Watermelon Woman

Daughters of the Dust

I Am Not Madame Bovary

The Illinois Parables

Manchester by the Sea

Ne Me Quitte Pas

The Red Turtle

Allied

Always Shine

Evolution

Baden Baden

Moana


December



Silence


I Am Not Your Negro

Fences

Ghostland

The Lion in Winter

Neruda

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Hidden Figures

I, Daniel Blake

Julieta

Toni Erdmann

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