Films of 2016

(Gradings A-F)

• Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015) B+
• Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015) A-
• Legend (Helgeland, 2015) C
• The Big Short (McKay, 2015) B
• Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015) A-
• The Martian (Scott, 2015) A-
• The End of the Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015) A-
• Pacific Rim (del Toro, 2013) C+
• Chi-Raq (Lee, 2015) B-
• Ex Machina (Garland, 2015) B
• Slow West (Maclean, 2015) B+
• Macbeth (Kurzel, 2015) B
• Beasts of No Nation (Fukunaga, 2015) B+
• The Last King of Scotland (Macdonald, 2006) B
• Serpico (Lumet, 1973) B-
• Election (Payne, 1999) B+
• Ant-Man (Reed, 2015) C
• Captain America: Civil War (Russo and Russo, 2016) A-
• Hail, Caesar! (Coen and Coen, 2016) C-
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Snyder, 2016) D
• 10 Cloverfield Lane (Trachtenberg, 2016) C+
• Traitor (Nachmanoff, 2008) B-
• Deadpool (Miller, 2016) B
• Bottle Rocket (Anderson, 1996) C
• The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) B-
• Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988) B+
• Batman: The Killing Joke (Liu, 2016) B-
• The Raid 2 (Evans, 2014) A-
• Primal Fear (Hoblit, 1996) C+
• Escape from L.A. (Carpenter, 1996) B-
• Weiner (Kriegman and Steinberg, 2016) B
• The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978) B+
• Jarhead (Mendes, 2005) B-
• In Order of Disappearance (Moland, 2014) B+
• Persepolis (Paronnaud and Satrapi, 2007) A-
• Outrage (Kitano, 2010) B-
• The Thing (Carpenter, 1982) A-
• Jason Bourne (Greengrass, 2016) C+
• Welcome to the Punch (Creevy, 2013) B+
• What We Do in the Shadows (Clement and Waititi, 2014) A
• Boy (Waititi, 2010) A-
• The Lobster (Lanthimos, 2015) A
• The Nice Guys (Black, 2016) A
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Waititi, 2016) B
• 24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom, 2002) C
• Hell or High Water (Mackenzie, 2016) B+
• Wild Tales (Szifron, 2014) A
• It Follows (Mitchell, 2015) A
• Train to Busan (Sang-ho, 2016) B+
• The Wailing (Hong-jin, 2016) B-
• Nocturnal Animals (Ford, 2016) B+