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It was a bad year for many things – like celebrity deaths and presidential elections – but at least it was a great year in cinema; each new month brought standout films to the screen. Here is a roundup of all of our 2016 Critics’ Picks.
January
In the Shadow of Women
Rams
Sweaty Betty
The Treasure
February
A.K.: The Making of Ran
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
Bad Hurt
Boom Bust Boom
Cemetery of Splendor
Colliding Dreams
Embrace of the Serpent
They Will Have to Kill Us First
A War
March
City of Gold
Everybody Wants Some!!
Fireworks Wednesday
Francofonia
Krisha
The Little Prince
My Golden Days
Notfilm
Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday
River of Grass
A Space Program
Too Late
Transfixed
April
Above and Below
The Family Fang
Green Room
A Hologram for the King
Hockney
The Jungle Book
La-Bas
The Measure of a Man
Showman
Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream
Tale of Tales
A Touch of Zen
Wrong Move
May
Band of Outsiders
Beautiful Something
Chevalier
Dheepan
Dragon Inn
Holy Hell
Kaili Blues
The Lobster
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Love & Friendship
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
O.J.: Made in America
Paths of the Soul
Sunset Song
To Life
Weiner
June
Approaching the Unknown
Argentina
Cosmos
The Final Master
The Fits
Germans & Jews
My Love Don’t Cross That River
Szinibad
The Thoughts That We Once Had
Tickled
Tikkun
Read on for more critics’ picks.
July
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Ants on a Shrimp
At the Fork
The Childhood of a Leader
Don’t Blink
Don’t Think Twice
For the Plasma
Gleason
Hollywood Beauty Salon
Hooligan Sparrow
Into the Forest
Men Go to Battle
Miss Sharon Jones
Summertime
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Under the Sun
August
Abortion: Stories We Tell
The Bride
Disorder
Elevator to the Gallows
Happy Hour
Hell or High Water
Howards End
Kubo and the Two Strings
The Land
Little Men
Lo and Behold…
Mia Madre
Morgan
Morris From America
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Spa Night
Sudden Fear
The Tenth Man
When Two Worlds Collide
Will You Dance with Me?
September
The Age of Shadows
Among the Believers
As I Open My Eyes
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Cameraperson
Chan is Missing
Closet Monster
Command and Control
Deepwater Horizon
Demon
A Family Affair
Giant
London Road
A Man Called Ove
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ruins of Lifta
Sand Storm
Tanna
The Vessel
October
13th
Aquarius
Asura: City of Madness
Being 17
Blue Jay
Certain Women
Creepy
Fire at Sea
The Handmaiden
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Moonlight
Newtown
Phantasm: Remastered
Portrait of a Garden
Sky Ladder
A Stray
The Terrorizers
Tower
The Uncondemned
Under the Shadow
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
November
Allied
Arrival
Always Shine
Baden Baden
Daughters of the Dust
Elle
Evolution
I Am Not Madame Bovary
Iron Moon
The Love Witch
Loving
Manchester by the Sea
Moana
The Monster
Ne Me Quitte Pas
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
The Red Turtle
This is Life
The Watermelon Woman
December
The Eyes of My Mother
Fences
Ghostland
Hidden Figures
I Am Not Your Negro
I, Daniel Blake
Jackie
Julieta
The Lion in Winter
Neruda
Silence
Things to Come
Toni Erdmann
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
