2016 films : essential picks & others.

Favorites

Arrival
Captain America: Civil War
Captain Fantastic
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
La La Land
The Lobster
The Nice Guys
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Honorable mention

20th Century Women
Allied
The Disaster Artist
Doctor Strange
Florence Foster Jenkins
I Am Not Your Negro
Passengers
Sully

All ages

Finding Dory
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Trolls

Guilty pleasures

Now You See Me 2

Holiday

Bad Santa 2

Want to see

13th (Ava DuVernay documentary)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Anthropoid (WWII Cillian Murphy)
The Disappointments Room
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fences
Hail, Caesar!
Jackie
Lion
Loving
Manchester By the Sea
Money Monster
Nocturnal Animals
One More Time with Feeling (Nick Cave documentary)
Paterson
The Salesman (Iran)
Silence
Sleight
Toni Erdmann (German-Austrian, father-daughter dramedy)
Tower (animated documentary about Texas shooting)