Film Room's Top 10 Movies of 2016 - Moonlight won

[methodz]

1 The Wailing
2 Nocturnal Animals
3 La La Land
4 The Lobster
5 Arrival
6 Hell or High Water
7 Train to Busan
8 Hacksaw Ridge
9 The Handmaiden
10 Swiss Army Man

 

[TheGodling]

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[FlyRy]

1 The Wailing
2 Nocturnal Animals
3 La La Land
4 The Lobster
5 Arrival
6 Hell or High Water
7 Train to Busan
8 Hacksaw Ridge
9 The Handmaiden
10 Swiss Army Man

And as always, the only top 10 that ever matters

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:smugford: some of us are at work so I see a blank list

 

[Tasha And]

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What did you like so much about A Bigger Splash?

 

[TheGodling]

:smugford: some of us are at work so I see a blank list ​

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Then I guess you should look at my list again when you're at home. :ducreux2:

What did you like so much about A Bigger Splash?

I thought it was incredibly well written in the way it focuses on the brooding (sexual) tension between the characters. It broods and it broods until it is hard to imagine that nothing might have happened, despite the fact you rarely see what actually happens between them. It plays well into the assumptions and accusations characters make, and it works because those accusations especially are often more revealing about what they think than anything you are actually shown. The acting is incredible with career high performances by Fiennes and Swinton and despite being outrageously bold and on the nose in some parts, it also manages to be incredibly subtle.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

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That shyt was mentally and emotionally exhausting, and not only for its length. I ended up needing to take a nap afterwards.

 

[Tasha And]

I thought it was incredibly well written in the way it focuses on the brooding (sexual) tension between the characters. It broods and it broods until it is hard to imagine that nothing might have happened, despite the fact you rarely see what actually happens between them. It plays well into the assumptions and accusations characters make, and it works because those accusations especially are often more revealing about what they think than anything you are actually shown. The acting is incredible with career high performances by Fiennes and Swinton and despite being outrageously bold and on the nose in some parts, it also manages to be incredibly subtle.

I liked the third act far more than the first and second. I actually had forgotten that I saw it until I saw it on your list. I agree that the sexual tension was thick between the main characters, and was explored in an interesting way. I also really liked Tilda's performance, as so much of it didn't involve verbal dialogue because of her throat surgery. I just can't seem to remember what I specifically wasn't feeling in the first act, aside from a lack of intensity that admittedly was intentional to build tension to explode in the climax.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Slow year for me. I watch movies a lot, but haven't kept up with 2016 releases. Not a whole lot has come out that has interested me and some of the stuff that has, I still haven't gotten around to watching.

1. Captain America: Civil War
   
2. Rogue One
3. Suicide Squad
4. The Jungle Book
5. Zootopia
6. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
   
7. Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders
   
8. The Shallows
   
9. The Purge: Election Year
   
10. I.T.

I'm sure most of these would've made my list, but I haven't gotten around to them yet:

The Accountant
Arrival
Doctor Strange
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
The Nice Guys
The Secret Life of Pets​

 

[Hugs]

1. O.J.: Made in America
2. American Honey
3. Moonlight
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. The Neon Demon
6. Arrival
7. Silence
8. Elle
9. Everybody Wants Some!!
10. Hacksaw Ridge

 

[Hugs]

Arrival
Doctor Strange
Hacksaw Ridge
Hail, Caesar!
The Nice Guys

I'd only recommend these, the bolded ones with friends

 

[StraxStrax]

 

[Hugs]

 

[dizzy4111]

Wow I almost forgot about this. Anyway:

1.) Moonlight
2.) Arrival
3.) Certain Women
4.) Green Room
5.) Aquarius
6.) Krisha
7.) Tower
8.) The Handmaiden
9.) Fences
10.) Toni Erdmann

 

[StraxStrax]

*nevermind

 

[Tasha And]

I wanted to squeeze a few more films in but won't get the chance to before today. I'll probably end up watching Elle, The Lobster, 20th Century Women, Denial, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Hail Caesar within the next month or so. I didn't see enough foreign films, animated films, or documentaries, which is usually the case every year.

My favorite films of the year.

1. Moonlight

2. American Honey

3. OJ Simpson: Made In America

4. Nocturnal Animals

5. Manchester By The Sea

6. Edge of Seventeen

7. Arrival

8. Swiss Army Man

9. Fences

10. Southside With You

10 Honorable Mentions that were heavily considered for top 10, no particular order

Spoiler

11. Captain Fantastic

12. The Witch

13. Hell or Highwater

14. The Handmaiden

15. Queen of Katwe

16. Zootopia

17. Captain America: Civil War

18. La La Land

19. A Monster Calls

20. The Nice Guys

And for fun, the full list of the 83 films I saw in 2016 and the rating I gave each (using the double toasted scale) when I first saw it. Some films (like The Witch) I gave a better rating on second viewing.

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Captain America: Civil War
The Green Room
Zootopia
The Jungle Book
Captain Fantastic
War Dogs
Southside With You
Hell or Highwater
Queen of Katwe
Ouija: Origin of Evil
American Honey
Moana
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moonlight
Arrival
Dr. Strange
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Edge of Seventeen
Manchester By The Sea
Nocturnal Animals
La La Land
Swiss Army Man
Jackie
Weiner
The Handmaiden
A Monster Calls

Matinee
Deadpool
Finding Dory
The Witch
Neighbors 2
The Nice Guys
The Conjuring 2
A Bigger Splash
10 Cloverfield Lane
Sausage Party
Don't Breathe
Sully
Deepwater Horizon
The 13th
Birth of a Nation
Loving
Sing Street
Fantastic Beast And Where To Find Them
Rogue One
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Hidden Figures
Lion
Silence
Christine

Rental
Secret Life of Pets
Money Monster
Hush
The Perfect Match
Me Before You
Xmen: Apacolypse
Batman V Superman
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Me Before You
Suicide Squad
Lights Out
The Purge: Election Year
Ghostbusters
Jason Bourne
When the Bough Breaks
Blair Witch
The Magnificent Seven
The Girl On The Train
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Snowden
Almost Christmas
The Shallows
Inferno
Passengers
Miss Sloan
The Killing Joke
Don't Think Twice
Hello My Name Is Dorris
Collateral Beauty

Some Ol Bullshyt
Angry Birds
Independence Day: Resurgence
Assassins Creed
Boo! A Madea Halloween