Alex’s Best & Worst Films Of 2016

Best Films of 2016:

1. The Handmaiden (read review here)
2. The Red Turtle
3. The Lobster
4. Hell or High Water
5. Manchester by the Sea
6. Arrival
7. Neruda (read review here)
8. Kubo and the Two Strings
9. Aquarius (read review here)
10. Things to Come (read review here)

Honorable Mentions:

• Miss Sharon Jones! (read review here)
• People (read review here)
• 13th
• The Music of Strangers (read review here)
• Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (read review here)
• Embrace of the Serpent (read review here)
• Son of Saul
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Midnight Special
• Deadpool
• Lemonade

Potential Contenders I Haven’t Seen Yet:

• Martin Scorsese’s “Silence”
• Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson”
• Morten Tyldum’s “Passengers”
• J. A. Bayona’s “A Monster Calls”
• Denzel Washington’s “Fences”
• Aren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann”
• Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals”
• Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle”

Alex’s Worst Films of 2016:

1. Mother’s Day
2. Honeyglue (read review here)
3. Boo! A Madea Halloween
4. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
5. Dirty Grandpa
6. Zoolander 2
7. Ride Along 2
8. London Has Fallen
9. Gods of Egypt
10. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Dishonorable Mentions:

• Les Cowboys (read review here)
• The River Thief (read review here)
• Collateral Beauty
• Adam Sandler’s Netflix excrements: The Do-Over/The Ridiculous 8/True Memoirs of an International Assassin

Missed Opportunities – Unfulfilled High Expectations:

• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
• The Witch
• Desierto
• Max Rose (read review here)
• The Light Between Oceans (read review here)
• Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
• The Birth of a Nation
• Mifune: The Last Samurai (read review here)
• Moonlight
• La La Land
• Allied
• Independence Day: Resurgence
• Suicide Squad
• Neon Demon
• Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (read review here)