Film Comment: 20 Best Films of 2016
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Two artists entering full bloom—Maren Ade (with our first non-American #1 since 2012’s Holy Motors) and Barry Jenkins—topped our annual survey, next to a redoubtable team-up of Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert. Dramas of psychological realism thrived alongside varieties of nonfiction experience, Grand Guignol, surrealism, and visionary history, all with Hollywood conspicuously absent. The poll, conducted among the magazine’s contributors and editorial staff, is divided into 1) films that received U.S. theatrical runs and 2) those viewed in 2016 but having no announced plans for U.S. theatrical distribution. For each ballot, a first-place choice was allotted 20 points, 19 for second, and so on.
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Toni Erdmann
2016, in 13 top lists Check -
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Moonlight
2016, in 13 top lists Check -
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Elle
2016, in 5 top lists Check -
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Rak ti Khon Kaen
2015 — a.k.a. Cemetery of Splendor, in 4 top lists Check -
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Certain Women
2016, in 5 top lists Check -
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Paterson
2016, in 4 top lists Check -
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Manchester by the Sea
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
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Aquarius
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
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L'avenir
2016 — a.k.a. Things to Come, in 1 top list Check -
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No Home Movie
2015, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Lobster
2015, in 7 top lists Check -
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Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da
2015 — a.k.a. Right Now, Wrong Then, in 6 top lists Check -
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Love & Friendship
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Cameraperson
2016, in 6 top lists Check -
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Lu bian ye can
2015 — a.k.a. Kaili Blues, in 1 top list Check -
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Ah-ga-ssi
2016 — a.k.a. The Handmaiden, in 13 top lists Check -
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Everybody Wants Some!!
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Fits
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
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Neruda
2016, in 1 top list Check -
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The Other Side
2015, in 0 top lists Check
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