The New Yorker - Best Movies of 2016
by jimmie-eliasson | created - 11 Dec 2016 | updated - 11 Dec 2016 | PublicBest Movies of 2016 according to The New Yorker.
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1. Little Sister (I) (2016)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, returning to her childhood home in Asheville NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters.
Director: Zach Clark | Stars: Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Alex Karpovsky, Rhonda Hansome
Votes: 3,827
2. Moonlight (I) (2016)
R | 111 min | Drama
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 331,919 | Gross: $27.85M
3. Sully (2016)
PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Drama
When pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey
Votes: 298,158 | Gross: $125.07M
4. Viktoria (2014)
Not Rated | 155 min | Drama, Family
Unwanted by her mother, Viktoria is being born with no umbilical cord and doesn't need Boryana until the hardships of life bind them together.
Director: Maya Vitkova | Stars: Irmena Chichikova, Daria Vitkova, Kalina Vitkova, Mariana Krumova
Votes: 479
5. Love & Friendship (2016)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica--and herself too, naturally.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell
Votes: 26,431 | Gross: $14.01M
6. Men Go to Battle (2015)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Men Go To Battle is the story of two brothers struggling to hold their crumbling estate together outside a small Kentucky town in the fall of 1861.
Director: Zachary Treitz | Stars: Timothy Morton, David Maloney, Rachel Korine, Kate Lyn Sheil
Votes: 370 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Wiener-Dog (2016)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy
Votes: 11,064 | Gross: $0.45M
8. Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on local Florida television in 1974.
Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Kate Lyn Sheil, Stephanie Coatney, Michael Ray Davis, Zachary Gossett
Votes: 1,204
9. Happy Hour (2015)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama
A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura
Votes: 2,941
10. Knight of Cups (2015)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas have to offer, undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Natalie Portman, Brian Dennehy
Votes: 29,438 | Gross: $0.56M
11. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 143,173 | Gross: $30.50M
12. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
R | 117 min | Comedy
In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Blake Jenner, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman, Zoey Deutch
Votes: 58,633 | Gross: $3.37M
13. The Love Witch (2016)
Unrated | 120 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Director: Anna Biller | Stars: Samantha Robinson, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Laura Waddell, Gian Keys
Votes: 19,914 | Gross: $0.23M
14. Krisha (2015)
R | 83 min | Drama
Krisha returns for Thanksgiving dinner after ten years away from her family, but past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Krisha Fairchild, Alex Dobrenko, Robyn Fairchild, Chris Doubek
Votes: 10,060 | Gross: $0.14M
15. Pete's Dragon (2016)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon.
Director: David Lowery | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence
Votes: 61,675 | Gross: $76.23M
16. Mountains May Depart (2015)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong
Votes: 6,392 | Gross: $0.08M
17. For the Plasma (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In Maine, two friends predict how the global financial market is going to change based on CCTV footage of a surrounding forest.
Directors: Bingham Bryant, Kyle Molzan | Stars: James Han, Erica Jennifer Hill, Ryohei Hoshi, Anabelle LeMieux
Votes: 184
18. 13th (2016)
TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales
Votes: 37,679
19. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
R | 137 min | Drama
A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan | Stars: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges
Votes: 313,817 | Gross: $47.70M
20. No Home Movie (2015)
Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Votes: 1,098 | Gross: $0.02M
21. The Witness (I) (2015)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The brother of Kitty Genovese investigates the circumstances of her murder and the truth of the story that dozens of locals witnessed the crime and did nothing to intervene.
Directors: James D. Solomon, Jessica Robinson | Stars: William Genovese, Shannon Beeby, Aaron Adler, Linda Ellen Bonekoskey
Votes: 4,551
22. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,647 | Gross: $1.03M
23. Sunset Song (2015)
R | 135 min | Drama
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Ken Blackburn, Mark Bonnar, Stuart Bowman, Emily-Jane Boyle
Votes: 4,056 | Gross: $0.16M
24. Dog Eat Dog (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook, Omar J. Dorsey
Votes: 9,695
25. The Treasure (2015)
Unrated | 89 min | Comedy
Costi is a family man whose cash-strapped neighbor makes him an intriguing proposition: help him find the fortune reportedly buried somewhere on the grounds of his family's country home in Romania and split the profits.
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu | Stars: Toma Cuzin, Adrian Purcarescu, Corneliu Cozmei, Radu Bânzaru
Votes: 3,208 | Gross: $0.03M
26. Tower (2016)
TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Animation, Crime
Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
Director: Keith Maitland | Stars: Monty Muir, Violett Beane, Cole Bee Wilson, Aldo Ordoñez
Votes: 8,287 | Gross: $0.09M
27. Nuts! (I) (2016)
Unrated | 79 min | Documentary, Animation
The mostly true story of Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric genius who built an empire with his goat-testicle impotence cure and a million-watt radio station.
Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Gene Tognacci, Andy Boswell, John Causby, Kelly Mizell
Votes: 876
28. Mia madre (2015)
R | 106 min | Drama
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti
Votes: 7,757 | Gross: $0.30M
29. Southside with You (2016)
PG-13 | 84 min | Biography, Drama, History
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Director: Richard Tanne | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear
Votes: 10,136 | Gross: $6.30M
30. Michael Moore in TrumpLand (2016)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary
In the weeks before the 2016 general election, Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore performs a pro-Hillary Clinton stand-up show deep in the heart of TrumpLand.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump
Votes: 4,090 | Gross: $0.15M
31. The Birth of a Nation (2016)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Director: Nate Parker | Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley
Votes: 21,820 | Gross: $15.86M
32. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Romance
A married film director falls for a young painter - twice.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Kim Min-hee, Youn Yuh-jung, Gi Ju-bong
Votes: 4,972
33. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,468 | Gross: $1.33M
34. Silence (I) (2016)
R | 161 min | Drama, History
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 123,007 | Gross: $7.10M
35. Hidden Figures (2016)
PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Votes: 255,320 | Gross: $169.61M
36. Coma (V) (2015)
97 min | Documentary
Three women - grandmother, mother and daughter - live hidden away in an old building in Damascus. They have chosen to live in voluntary imprisonment, cutting themselves off from a city in a... See full summary »
Director: Sara Fattahi
Votes: 11
Best undistributed film #1
37. Hermia & Helena (2016)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
Director: Matías Piñeiro | Stars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop, Keith Poulson
Votes: 494 | Gross: $0.04M
Best undistributed film #2
38. Yourself and Yours (2016)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
A foray into the uncanny with a spin on Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire".
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Kim Ju-hyuk, Lee Yoo-young, Kwon Hae-hyo, Yoo Joon-sang
Votes: 1,561
Best undistributed film #3
39. Univitellin (2016)
15 min | Short, Drama
Marseille, today. Aminata works as a hairdresser in an Afro hairdressing salon, Badara works as mechanic. When they meet, their love story will change their lives.
Director: Terence Nance | Stars: Aminata M'Bathie, Badara Ngom, Naky Sy Savane, Maman Faso
Votes: 80
Best undistributed film #4
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