Top Ten of 2016

[baby doll]

Screw 2015. There's no such thing as the past.

[baby doll]

Masterpieces
Evolution (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)

Must Sees
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
The Club (Pablo LarraÃ*n)
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
Neruda (Pablo LarraÃ*n)

Worth Seeing
The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)
The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosoda)
Cafe Society (Woody Allen)
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard)
Christine (Antonio Campos)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
Weiner (Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg)

Has Redeeming Facet
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway)
The Family Fang (Jason Bateman)
Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)

Worthless
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

Walked Out
Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)

[TGM]

I didn't even know anyone had already made this thread.

1. Zootopia
2. The Neon Demon
3. Swiss Army Man
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. The Conjuring 2
6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
7. Deadpool
8. Warcraft
9. Green Room
10. Kung Fu Panda 3

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11. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
12. Hush
13. Eye in the Sky
14. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
15. The Nice Guys
16. The Shallows
17. Demolition
18. Midnight Special
19. Hail, Caesar!
20. 10 Cloverfield Lane

21. X-Men: Apocalypse
22. The Witch
23. Elvis & Nixon
24. The Legend of Tarzan
25. Finding Dory
26. The Secret Life of Pets
27. Money Monster
28. The Huntsman: Winter's War
29. Allegiant
30. Gods of Egypt

31. Jane Got A Gun
32. Keanu
33. The Purge: Election Year
34. The BFG
35. The Lobster
36. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
37. Risen
38. Race
39. The Finest Hours
40. Central Intelligence

41. Free State of Jones
42. Everybody Wants Some!!
43. Now You See Me 2
44. The Jungle Book
45. The 5th Wave
46. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
47. I Saw the Light
48. The Masked Saint
49. The Forest
50. London Has Fallen

51. Hardcore Henry
52. Ghostbusters
53. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
54. Independence Day: Resurgence

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[Spinal]

1. A Man Called Ove
2. Sing Street
3. Arrival
4. Moonlight
5. Don't Think Twice
6. Hell or High Water
7. Everybody Wants Some!!
8. The Handmaiden
9. The Lobster
10. Lion

[Peng]

1. Everybody Wants Some!!
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Right Now, Wrong Then
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Green Room
6. Sing Street
7. The Witch
8. The Jungle Book
9. Midnight Special
10. Our Little Sister

[Stay Puft]

1. Mountains May Depart
2. The Lobster
3. Louder Than Bombs
4. Mermaid
5. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
6. Knight of Cups
7. Cemetery of Splendour
8. Afternoon
9. A Bigger Splash
10. Midnight Special

[Ivan Drago]

1. Swiss Army Man
2. The Neon Demon
3. Hail, Caesar!
4. The Lobster
5. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppin’
6. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
7. Sing Street
8. Weiner
9. The Nice Guys
10. Dheepan


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11. Midnight Special
12. The Witch
13. Everybody Wants Some!!
14. Deadpool
15. 10 Cloverfield Lane
16. Captain America: Civil War
17. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
18. The Shallows
19. Transpecos
20. A Bigger Splash
21. Green Room
22. Zootopia
23. Lo and Behold, Reveries in a Connected World
24. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
25. Love and Friendship
26. Lights Out
27. Ghostbusters
28. The Jungle Book
29. X-Men: Apocalypse
30. Finding Dory
31. The Purge: Election Year
32. High-Rise
33. A Tale of Love and Darkness
34. The BFG
35. Hardcore Henry
36. Saving Banksy
37. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
38. Warcraft

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[Stay Puft]

23. Lo and Behold, Reveries in a Connected World

Whoa, somebody on MC has actually seen this.

Your thoughts?

(I haven't even seen Queen of the Desert yet.)

[Spinal]

Two months to go. What's your list look like now?

[Dukefrukem]

1.Green Room 2015
★★★★★

2.Zootopia 2016
★★★★★

3.The Witch 2015
★★★★★

4.Captain America: Civil War 2016
★★★★★

5.Deadpool 2016
★★★★★

6.Midnight Special 2016
★★★★½

7.The Conjuring 2 2016
★★★★

8.The Shallows 2016
★★★★½

9.Star Trek Beyond 2016
★★★★

10.The Nice Guys 2016
★★★★

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Nice Guys
2. Deadpool
3. The Birth of a Nation
4. Men & Chicken
5. Zootopia

[Peng]

1. Everybody Wants Some!!
2. The Handmaiden
3. OJ: Made in America
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. Right Now, Wrong Then
6. 10 Cloverfield Lane
7. Love and Friendship
8. After the Storm
9. Elle
10. Pete's Dragon

Hardest to rank is between After the Storm and Elle. Kore-eda's and Verhoeven's are two so completely different films I like about the same that it will probably depend on my mood at the time for which comes first.

[Ivan Drago]

Two months to go. What's your list look like now?

1. Swiss Army Man
2. Moonlight
3. The Neon Demon
4. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppin’
5. The Greasy Strangler
6. American Honey
7. Train To Busan
8. Hail, Caesar!
9. The Lobster
10. The Handmaiden


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11. Sing Street
12. Ouija: Origin of Evil
13. Doctor Strange
14. The Innocents
15. De Palma
16. Weiner
17. White Girl
18. Pete’s Dragon
19. Oasis: Supersonic
20. Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
21. The Nice Guys
22. Dheepan
23. Midnight Special
24. Everybody Wants Some!!
25. The Witch
26. Don’t Breathe
27. Kate Plays Christine
28. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
29. Captain America: Civil War
30. 10 Cloverfield Lane
31. Don’t Think Twice
32. The Light Between Oceans
33. Deadpool
34. Blair Witch
35. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
36. The Shallows
37. Indignation
38. Transpecos
39. Kubo And The Two Strings
40. A Bigger Splash
41. Green Room
42. Zootopia
43. Lo and Behold, Reveries in a Connected World
44. The Girl on the Train
45. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
46. Love and Friendship
47. Lights Out
48. Wiener-Dog
49. Captain Fantastic
50. The Accountant
51. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
52. Tickled
53. Ghostbusters
54. Keanu
55. Nuts!
56. The Jungle Book
57. X-Men: Apocalypse
58. Finding Dory
59. Cafe Society
60. The Purge: Election Year
61. High-Rise
62. A Tale of Love and Darkness
63. The BFG
64. Complete Unknown
65. Hardcore Henry
66. Saving Banksy
67. Nerve
68. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
69. Warcraft
70. Suicide Squad

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[Melville]

Love
1. The Lobster

Like
2. Arrival
3. The Witch
4. The Neon Demon
5. The Invitation
6. Weiner
7. Hail, Caesar!

OK
8. The Nice Guys
9. Captain America: Civil War

Dislike
10. Everybody Wants Some!!
11. X-Men: Apocalypse

[Watashi]

1. Arrival
2. Sing Street
3. Swiss Army Man
4. The Hunt for the Wilderpeople
5. Hail Caesar!
6. Pete's Dragon
7. The Nice Guys
8. Everybody Wants Some!!
9. Sunset Song
10. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

[Lazlo]

1. O.J.: Made in America
2. American Honey
3. Arrival
4. Everybody Wants Some!!
5. Hunt For the Wilderpeople
6. Sing Street
7. Kubo and the Two Strings
8. Weiner
9. The Witch
10. The Nice Guys

[Stay Puft]

update:

1. Things to Come
2. Moonlight
3. Mountains May Depart
4. The Lobster
5. Louder Than Bombs
6. Mermaid
7. Certain Women
8. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
9. Knight of Cups
10. Cemetery of Splendour

[Henry Gale]

My top two go back and forth every other day, but right now:

1. La La Land (Chazelle)
2. Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan)
3. Everybody Wants Some!! (Linklater)
4. Arrival (Villeneuve)
5. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi)
6. Kubo and the Two Strings (Knight)
7. The Nice Guys (Black)
8. Green Room (Saulnier)
9. The Handmaiden (Park)
10. The Witch (Eggers)

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11. The Lobster (Lanthimos)
12. Sing Street (Carney)
13. The Edge of Seventeen (Craig)
14. 10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg)
15. Hell or High Water (Mackenzie)
16. The Bad Batch (Amirpour)
17. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Schaffer/Taccone)
18. Loving (Nichols)
19. Captain America: Civil War (Russo/Russo)
20. X-Men: Apocalypse (Singer)
21. High-Rise (Wheatley)
22. Star Trek Beyond (Lin)

]

[Pop Trash]

1. OJ: Made in America
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Elle
4. The Lobster
5. La La Land
6. De Palma
7. Hail, Caesar!
8. Certain Women
9. The VVitch
10. The Neon Demon

[Watashi]

If we're including OJ, that's easily my #1.

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Kubo and the Two Strings
2. The Invitation
3. Green Room
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Dr. Strange
6. The Witch
7. Captain America: Civil War
8. The Jungle Book
9. Zootopia

workin on it

[Irish]

1. OJ: Made in America
2. Elle
3. High-Rise
4. The Wailing
5. Green Room
6. The Blue Room
7. Train to Busan
8. The Shallows
9. Under the Shadow
10. ARQ

[transmogrifier]

The Nice Guys
Seoul Station
Green Room
Don't Breathe
Café Society
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Deadpool
Triple 9
Sausage Party
Train to Busan

None are world beaters. Been a pretty dull year for mainstream cinema.

[Ivan Drago]

1. Swiss Army Man
2. Moonlight
3. The Neon Demon
4. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppin’
5. The Greasy Strangler
6. American Honey
7. Train To Busan
8. Hail, Caesar!
9. The Lobster
10. The Handmaiden


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11. Sing Street
12. Ouija: Origin of Evil
13. Doctor Strange
14. The Innocents
15. De Palma
16. Weiner
17. White Girl
18. Pete’s Dragon
19. Oasis: Supersonic
20. Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
21. The Nice Guys
22. Dheepan
23. Midnight Special
24. Everybody Wants Some!!
25. The Witch
26. Don’t Breathe
27. Kate Plays Christine
28. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
29. Captain America: Civil War
30. 10 Cloverfield Lane
31. Don’t Think Twice
32. The Light Between Oceans
33. Deadpool
34. Blair Witch
35. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
36. The Shallows
37. Indignation
38. Transpecos
39. Kubo And The Two Strings
40. A Bigger Splash
41. Green Room
42. Zootopia
43. Lo and Behold, Reveries in a Connected World
44. The Girl on the Train
45. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
46. Love and Friendship
47. Lights Out
48. Wiener-Dog
49. Captain Fantastic
50. The Accountant
51. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
52. Tickled
53. Ghostbusters
54. Keanu
55. Nuts!
56. The Jungle Book
57. X-Men: Apocalypse
58. Finding Dory
59. Cafe Society
60. The Purge: Election Year
61. High-Rise
62. A Tale of Love and Darkness
63. The BFG
64. Complete Unknown
65. Hardcore Henry
66. Saving Banksy
67. Nerve
68. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
69. Warcraft
70. Suicide Squad

]

1. Moonlight
2. Swiss Army Man
3. The Neon Demon
4. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stoppin’
5. The Greasy Strangler
6. American Honey
7. Arrival
8. Train To Busan
9. Hail, Caesar!
10. The Lobster

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11. The Handmaiden
12. Sing Street
13. Ouija: Origin of Evil
14. Doctor Strange
15. A Man Called Ove
16. The Innocents
17. De Palma
18. Weiner
19. White Girl
20. Pete’s Dragon
21. Oasis: Supersonic
22. Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
23. The Nice Guys
24. Dheepan
25. Midnight Special
26. Everybody Wants Some!!
27. The Witch
28. Don’t Breathe
29. Kate Plays Christine
30. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
31. Captain America: Civil War
32. 10 Cloverfield Lane
33. Don’t Think Twice
34. The Light Between Oceans
35. Deadpool
36. Blair Witch
37. Hunt For The Wilderpeople
38. The Shallows
39. Indignation
40. Transpecos
41. Kubo And The Two Strings
42. A Bigger Splash
43. Green Room
44. Zootopia
45. Lo and Behold, Reveries in a Connected World
46. The Girl on the Train
47. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
48. Love and Friendship
49. Lights Out
50. Wiener-Dog
51. Captain Fantastic
52. The Accountant
53. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
54. Tickled
55. Ghostbusters
56. Keanu
57. Nuts!
58. The Jungle Book
59. X-Men: Apocalypse
60. Finding Dory
61. Cafe Society
62. The Purge: Election Year
63. High-Rise
64. A Tale of Love and Darkness
65. The BFG
66. Complete Unknown
67. Hardcore Henry
68. Saving Banksy
69. Nerve
70. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
71. Warcraft
72. Suicide Squad

]

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Kubo and the Two Strings
2. The Invitation
3. Green Room
4. 10 Cloverfield Lane
5. Star Trek Beyond
6. Dr. Strange
7. The Jungle Book
8. The Witch
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. Zootopia