Top 10 Best Performances of 2016 Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling as Mia & Sebastian in La La Land John Goodman as Howard Stambler 10 Cloverfield Lane Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea Sunny Pawar as Young Saroo in Lion Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie Matt Smith as Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Elle Fanning as Jesse in The Neon Demon Johnny Simmons as Hopper Gibson in The Phenom Royalty Hightower as Toni in The Fits Jeff Bridges as Marcus Hamilton in Hell or High Water
Top 10 Favorite Scenes of 2016 La La Land - The rewind montage near the end The Fits - The final scene Manchester by the Sea - when Michelle Williams and Casey Affleck bump into each other The Neon Demon - The eyeball scene Kate Plays Christine - Suicide recreation scene 10 Cloverfield Lane - The first dinner table scene Hail, Caesar! - Channing Tatum sailor dance number Doctor Strange - Travel through time & space Nocturnal Animals - Abduction scene Allied - The party scene
Top 10 Worst of 2016 The Shallows London Has Fallen Now You See Me 2 The BFG Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Suicide Squad Jason Bourne Keanu Ghostbusters Zoolander 2
Top 10 Favorite Non-2016 Movies Watched for the First Time in 2016 Wild Tales (2014) Boy (2010) The Look of Silence (2014) The Wave (2015) The Tree of Life (2011) Paths of Glory (1957) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Chungking Express (1994) Three Colors: Blue (1993) The Invitation (2015)
Top 10 Worst Non-2016 Movies Watched for the First Time in 2016 Hail Caesar (1994) Fat City (1972) The Final Countdown (1980) Always (1989) Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) Blink (1994) Color of Night (1994) Returner (2002) Gridiron Gang (2006) The Cobbler (2014)
Top 10 Best Uses of Punctuation in a Movie Title of 2016 O.J.: Made in America Hail, Caesar! Pee-wee's Big Holiday The Huntsman: Winter's War 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi X-Men: Apocalypse Captain America: Civil War Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Don't Breathe & Don't Think Twice
Top 10 Directorial Debuts of 2016 The Witch (Robert Eggers) The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker) 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg) Lion (Garth Daniels) Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight) The Land (Steven Caple Jr.) Pee-wee’s Big Holiday (John Lee) Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-Ho) Swiss Army Man (DANIELs - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
Top 10 "The" Movies of 2016 The Birth of a Nation The Handmaiden The Wailing The Neon Demon The Nice Guys The Phenom The Land The Accountant The Legend of Tarzan The Finest Hours
Movie Resolutions for 2017 Watch a film from each director in my top 20 films that I have not seen Watch 5 Akira Kurosawa movies Watch Every #1 movie from my birth year (17)
Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2017 The Circle - dir James Ponsoldt, Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega, Karen Gillan,Patton Oswalt, and Bill Paxton Trainspotting 2 - dir by Danny Boyle God Particle - aka Coverfield 3, John Krasinksy, An American space station crew left abandoned after a problem with a Hadron accelerator causes Earth to vanish entirely. Dunkirk - dir by Christopher Nolan Blade Runner 2049 - dir by Denis Villeneuve Star Wars Episode 8 - dir by Rian Johnson The Bad Batch - Ana Lily Amipour dir of A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, a dystopian love story set here in Texas amongst a community of cannibals – Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Jason Momoa Colossal - dir Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), Anne Hathaway, Dan Stevens, Jason Sudeikis, woman realizes that she is somehow psychically connected to a rampaging monster laying waste to Tokyo Free Fire - dir Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise), Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Irish gang’s attempt to buy guns from a Boston gang that goes south Super Troopers 2 - dir by Jay Chandrasekhar