Mike's 2016 Movie List

1 The Handmaiden – Chan-wook Park made a movie that exceeded expectations. Gorgeously shot and provocative in all the right…and wrong ways.
2 Kubo and the Two Strings – So much magic. Story, action, humor and style all work.
3 Fences – Viola Davis acts the shit out of this movie.
4 Moonlight – Hit me in the feels in a way I wasn’t expecting.
5 Tony Eardman – Walks a fine line between being too serious and funny. It’s a bit long though.
6 Tower
7 13th
8 The Nice Guys
9 Arrival
10 Finding Dory
11 Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
12 Sing Street
13 A Monster Calls
14 Hell or High Water
15 Raw
16 La La Land
17 Elle
18 Hail, Caeser!
19 Safe Neighborhood
20 The Mermaid
21 Colossal
22 The Autopsy of Jane Doe
23 Zootopia
24 Silence
25 Everybody Wants Some
26 Deadpool
27 Captain America: Civil War
28 The Jungle Book
29 Rogue One
30 The Red Turtle
31 Bad Black
32 Age of Shadows
33 The Lure
34 Playground
35 Midnight Special
36 Shin Godzilla
37 Sausage Party
38 Race
39 American Honey
40 Rats
41 Kung Fu Panda 3
42 Star Trek Beyond
43 The Young Offenders
44 Popoz
45 The Fundamentals of Caring
46 Amanda Knox
47 Pee Wee's Big Holiday
48 Ip Man 3
49 The Cure For Wellness
50 Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses
51 Keanu
52 Eddie the Eagle
53 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
54 Call of Heroes
55 Dog Eat Dog
56 My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
57 Pervert Boy
58 The Greasy Strangler
59 24:36 A Movie About Movie Posters
60 Alice Through the Looking Glass – So much CGI and money on display all to service a shit movie
61 Phantasm: Ravager – ugh.

Eric's 2016 Movie List

Overall, it was a pretty nice year for movies, but there were only three or four that I can say I really loved. A couple of movies could have placed higher if I were given just 10 minutes in the editing room -- those being "Manchester by the Sea" and "Elle." I could move around just a single scene in each of those and make them both much better movies. As you can see, most of the films I've ranked highly are fairly mainstream. The only exception being the Icelandic film "Rams" ("Hrútar") about a pair of feuding brothers and diseased sheep. It's available to stream on Netflix...go check it out. As usual, I tried to avoid movies that I knew I wouldn't like and largely succeeded. I recommend avoiding the bottom ten or fifteen on my list (I don't care what the critics say about "Krisha" and "The Fits", I was very disappointed in them both.) If you've seen any of the following and care to offer your take, I'd love to hear it.

1 Moonlight
2 All the Way
3 Fences
4 Hell or High Water
5 Lion
6 The Handmaiden
7 La La Land
8 Swiss Army Man
9 Jackie
10 Manchester By the Sea
11 20th Century Women
12 Rams
13 The Lobster
14 Sing Street
15 O.J.: Made in America
16 Edge of Seventeen
17 The Founder
18 I Saw the Light
19 Paterson
20 Hacksaw Ridge
21 Arrival
22 The Light Between Oceans
23 Mr. Fantastic
24 Moana
25 Allied
26 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
27 Finding Dory
28 Sausage Party
29 Love and Friendship
30 The Greasy Strangler
31 Tower
32 The Witch
33 Eye in the Sky
34 Toni Erdmann
35 Deepwater Horizon
36 Green Room
37 Nocturnal Animals
38 Silence
39 Hidden Figures
40 The Innocents
41 Café Society
42 The Nice Guys
43 The Girl on the Train
44 Elvis & Nixon
45 Christine
46 Elle
47 The Neon Demon
48 Kubo and the Two Strings
49 Hail, Caesar!
50 The 13th
51 Team Foxcatcher
52 The Witness
53 Tallulah
54 Eddie the Eagle
55 10 Cloverfield Lane
56 Zootopia
57 Sully
58 Snowden
59 Sour Grapes
60 Weiner
61 The Wailing
62 The Birth of a Nation
63 Neerja
64 Jim: The James Foley Story
65 Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
66 The Infiltrator
67 Midnight Special
68 Florence Foster Jenkins
69 The Accountant
70 Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig
71 Gleason
72 Everybody Wants Some
73 Mascots
74 Mad
75 For the Love of Spock
76 Embrace of the Serpent
77 Audrie & Daisy
78 Amanda Knox
79 Hunt for the Wilderpeople
80 In a Valley of Violence
81 City of Gold
82 The Phenom
83 The Columbine Massacre: In the Killer's Mind
84 Other People
85 Greater
86 Blair Witch
87 The Secret Life of Pets
88 The Fits
89 Krisha
90 The Confessions of Thomas Quick
91 Marking Out