2016 EOTY Entertainment Lists • Page 7

Are those premiere dates for when it played anywhere in the world?

 

Yes, mostly festival premieres.

 

More for my own curiosity of how I'd stack them up, I figured I'd make a list of what I saw this year:

1. La La Land
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Manchester by the Sea
4. Arrival
5. Moonlight
6. Deepwater Horizon
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Moana
9. Fences
10. Hail, Caesar!
11. The Edge of Seventeen
12. Zootopia
13. Sully
14. Star Trek Beyond
15. Sing Street
16. Loving
17. Florence Foster Jenkins
18. Everybody Wants Some!
19. Hacksaw Ridge
20. Hell or High Water
21. Finding Dory
22. Rules Don't Apply
23. Jackie
24. The Meddler
25. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
26. Kung Fu Panda 3
27. Cafe Society
28. Captain America: Civil War
29. Midnight Special
30. The Magnificent Seven
31. Deadpool
32. Doctor Strange
33. Allied
34. Queen of Katwe
35. Ghostbusters
36. Snowden
37. The Birth of a Nation
38. Jason Bourne
39. Elle
40. X-Men: Apocalypse
41. Money Monster
42. Denial
43. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
44. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

And movies I saw in theaters in 2016, but they were technically 2015 releases:
Miles Ahead
April and the Extraordinary World
Dheepan

Planning to see before the Oscars, which is generally when I stop playing catch-up:
Lion
Hidden Figures
20th Century Women
Captain Fantastic
The BFG
Passengers
A Monster Calls
The Jungle Book
The Lobster
Love and Friendship
Patriot's Day
Live By Night
The Red Turtle
Your Name
Miss Hokusai
My Life As a Zucchini

 

This is a great list.

 

Reverse Shot is going to start their list on Twitter in about an hour.

 

Damn I forgot Zootopia came out this year....such an interesting animated film. Not only does it have heart, but the subtle race/inequality theme is fantastic to see in a movie marketed for children.

 

My friend and I compiled a not-too-serious list of our favorite TV shows of the year, figured I'd post here in case anyone wanted to take a look. :)

Van and Paul’s Top 20 TV Shows of 2016 — Part Two (#1–10) Feat. Special Guest Mark Duplass!

 

Reverse Shot’s Best of 2016

Reverse Shot's list.

 

Surprised Manchester by the Sea and Elle are missing from the Reverse Shot list, but it's a pretty amazing selection. This is the first of their lists where I've seen everything I've had the chance to. Silence is the only one I'm missing but it hasn't opened in Toronto yet.

 

Manchester by the Sea is probably too light on the heavier themes for them. Everything on the list that I have seen made my list. Most of the rest has been stuff I have been waiting for.

 

I watched Elle. Between this and Things To Come, Isabelle Huppert has had quite a year, even though I didn't love either film. Still, I found it compelling in its complexity. Was unsure of how to interpret it or if there even was a way it was supposed to be interpreted, but oh well.

 

Jackie, The Neon Demon, and Midnight Special Highlight Reverse Shot's 11 Offenses of 2016.

11 Offenses of 2016

 

Glad to see them take down Joshy and Hell or High Water.

 

2016: Two Cents

 

I never would have imagined that Reverse Shot would stump for Dirty Grandpa. I guess I have to see it now.

 

There's been quite a few people emerging with praise for it. I know Peter Labuza is one of them. I'm kind of curious about it.

 

Marsh always tweets about it

 

I must have missed it or assumed they were joking. I will have to watch it sometime this week.

 

Realize I'm pretty late to the party here, but figured I'd throw my two cents in while it's still kinda sorta relevant...

My favorite films of 2016, in chronological order...

Deadpool
Captain America: Civil War
The Lobster
Belladonna of Sadness
The Little Prince
Hell or High Water
Moonlight
Elle
Manchester by the Sea
Silence

Aaaannnddd the Worst...

The Forest
Zoolander 2
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
X-Men: Apocalypse
The Legend of Tarzan
Batman: The Killing Joke
Suicide Squad
Yoga Hosers
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Honorable Mentions to...

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: This movie got the shit kicked out of it, and I can't say it's entirely undeserved. It's a haphazard, unwieldy mess of a movie. But at the same time, it has individual moments that I thought were quite powerful.

The Greasy Strangler: You can't say it's forgettable!