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2016 Movies

New Yorker: Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2016

10 December 2016

Richard Brody: 35 Best Movies of 2016, as published by The New Yorker

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  1. Little Sister
    Zach Clark
  2. Moonlight
    Barry Jenkins
  3. Sully
    Clint Eastwood
  4. Viktoria
    Maya Vitkova
  5. Love & Friendship
    Whit Stillman
  6. Men Go to Battle
    Zachary Treitz
  7. Wiener-Dog
    Todd Solondz
  8. Kate Plays Christine
    Robert Greene
  9. Happy Hour
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  10. Knight of Cups
    Terrence Malick
  11. Hail, Caesar!
    Joel & Ethan Coen
  12. Everybody Wants Some!!
    Richard Linklater
  13. The Love Witch
    Anna Biller
  14. Krisha
    Trey Edward Shults
  15. Pete’s Dragon
    David Lowery
  16. Mountains May Depart
    Jia Zhang-ke
  17. For the Plasma
    Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan
  18. 13th
    Ava DuVernay
  19. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
  20. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  21. The Witness
    James D. Solomon
  22. Certain Women
    Kelly Reichardt
  23. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies
  24. Dog Eat Dog
    Paul Schrader
  25. The Treasure
    Corneliu Porumboiu
  26. Tower
    Keith Maitland
  27. Nuts!
    Penny Lane
  28. Mia Madre
    Nanni Moretti
  29. Southside with You
    Richard Tanne
  30. Michael Moore in TrumpLand
    Michael Moore
  31. The Birth of a Nation
    Nate Parker
  32. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
  33. Embrace of the Serpent
    Ciro Guerra
  34. Silence
    Martin Scorsese
  35. Hidden Figures
    Theodore Melfi

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