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