1. Captain Fantastic - Matt Ross
2. Arrival - Denis Villeneuve
3. Florence Foster Jenkins - Stephen Frears
4. Snowden - Oliver Stone
5. Finding Dory - Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane
6. Kung Fu Panda 3 - Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh Nelson
7. The Jungle Book - Jon Favreau
8. Hacksaw Ridge - Mel Gibson
9. Looking: The Movie, TV movie - Andrew Haigh
10. Café Society - Woody Allen
Good, recommendable movies of 2016 (in alphabetic order):
The Conjuring 2 - James Wan
Ghostbusters - Paul Feig
Lights Out - David F. Sandberg
The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn
Sausage Party - Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
Star Trek Beyond - Justin Lin
The Worst of 2016:
1. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Gareth Edwards
2. London Has Fallen - Babak Najafi
3. Warcraft - Duncan Jones
Other less than good movies of the year (in alphabetic order):
13 Hours/13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Hail, Caesar!
Pete's Dragon
X-Men: Apocalypse
[23 titles in total]
Notes:
The first, tentative summary of the year 2016 in movies contains in the top 10 2 masterpieces:
Matt Ross' emotionally riveting Captain Fantastic and Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama thriller Arrival. The remainder of the list is filled out by Stephen Frears' delightful Florence Foster Jenkins, Oliver Stone's highly topical Snowden, Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane's excellent sequel Finding Dory, Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh Nelson's hilarious Kung Fu Panda 3, Jon Favreau's magical The Jungle Book, Mel Gibson's forceful true-story war movie Hacksaw Ridge, Andrew Haigh's touching, romantic TV movie Looking: The Movie, and finally Woody Allen's deeply funny and poignant showbiz period picture Café Society.
The year also offered an unusual, very adult and very funny animation (Sausage Party), another fine Star Trek movie (Star Trek Beyond), a funny Ghostbusters reboot (Ghostbusters) and a slew of successful horrors (The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, The Neon Demon).
On the still short worst-of list we find three big-budgeted blunders: Gareth Edwards' tentpole blockbuster for Disney, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Babak Najafi's senseless terrorism actioner sequel London Has Fallen and Duncan Jones' insipid computer game adaptation Warcraft.
Needless to say, the lists are in this first iteration wildly lacking in titles, which will be improved in about a year in the first update of it.
Still on the 2016 watch-list:
Midnight Special, Gods of Egypt, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Baskets (TV-series), King Cobra, War Dogs, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, It's Only the End of the World, I, Daniel Blake, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, American Honey, Elle, Spa Night, Sully, Undrafted, Why Him?, Hidden Figures, Nocturnal Animals, Moonlight, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Shin Godzilla, Paterson and The Salesman.
Previous annual lists:
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2015 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2014 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2014 in films - according to Film Excess
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2013 in films - according to Film Excess 2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2012 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2012 in films - according to Film Excess
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2011 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2011 in films - according to Film Excess
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What do you think of the 2016 lists?
What films of the year are your favorites and least favorites?
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