So, my thoughts on the year’s best before Oscar anoints La La Land. As noted before, I tend to catch a lot of the late year prestige films … well, late, so my Oscar-time opinions have some caveats. That said, here is my “Best of 2016” as of now:
Best Picture of 2016:
⦁ Everybody Wants Some!!
Runner-ups:
⦁ The Handmaiden
⦁ The Lobster
⦁ Manchester by the Sea
⦁ The Nice Guys
⦁ The Neon Demon
⦁ Twisted Justice
Also quite good:
⦁ Arrival
⦁ Deadpool
⦁ Don’t Breathe
⦁ Green Room
⦁ Hail Caesar
⦁ Hell or High Water
⦁ Love and Friendship
⦁ The Mermaid
⦁ Sausage Party
⦁ Shin Godzilla
⦁ Train to Busan
Movies I Still Haven’t Seen That Probably Had a Chance of Making My List:
⦁ Colossal
⦁ Creepy
⦁ Elle
⦁ La La Land
⦁ The Love Witch
⦁ Moonlight
⦁ Paterson
⦁ Salesman
⦁ Silence
⦁ Toni Erdmann
I Generally Avoid Bad New Movies, But I Mistakenly Saw These:
⦁ Batman v Superman
⦁ Phantasm Ravager
⦁ Suicide Squad
⦁ The Priests
⦁ The Throne
⦁ They’re Watching
⦁ X-Men Apocalypse