THE TOP 50 (AND BOTTOM 20) FILMS OF 2016 FROM SLANT

No surprises here! Except, in fact, the absence of La La Land in the entire top 50 of 2016 list from Slant Magazine! Not that I'm complaining... Toni Erdmann leads a diverse list of major awards contenders and international arthouse favourites from both this year and last, altogether comprising one of the best lists you'll see this year. Stay tuned for updates on other year-end lists from Slant over the coming days and weeks.

*Updated to include the Best Performances, the Top 20 Best Scenes and the Top 20 Worst Films

Best Film
1. Toni Erdmann

2. O.J.: Made in America

3. Happy Hour

4. Cemetery of Splendour

5. Elle

6. Paterson

7. Moonlight

8. Cameraperson

9. Manchester by the Sea

10. The Treasure

11. Right Now, Wrong Then

12. No Home Movie

13. Knight of Cups

14. Sunset Song

15. The Love Witch

16. Certain Women

17. Everybody Wants Some!!

18. Love & Friendship

19. The Illinois Parables

20. Homo Sapiens

21. Kate Plays Christine

22. The Academy of Muses

23. Fire at Sea

24. Homeland: Iraq Year Zero

25. The Neon Demon

26. Kaili Blues

27. In the Shadow of Women

28. Aquarius

29. Neon Bull

30. Hail, Caesar!

31. The Other Side

32. The Lobster

33. Wiener-Dog

34. 20th Century Women

35. Mia Madre

36. Aferim!

37. The Fits

38. Midnight Special

39. Little Men

40. Cosmos

41. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party

42. Do Not Resist

43. The Handmaiden

44. Mountain May Depart

45. Demon

46. Creepy

47. Things to Come

48. I Am Not Madame Bovary

49. 13th

50. Fort Buchanan

Best Performance
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Kate Beckinsale (Love & Friendship)
Tom Bennett (Love & Friendship)
Sonia Braga (Aquarius)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Margherita Buy (Mia Madre)
Christopher Matthew Cooke (Dog Eat Dog)
Willem Dafoe (Dog Eat Dog)
Viola Davis (Fences)
Danny de Vito (Wiener-Dog)
Adam Driver (Paterson)
Ralph Fiennes (A Bigger Splash)
Lily Gladstone (Certain Women)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Andre Holland (Moonlight)
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Tracy Letts (Indignation / Wiener-Dog)
Vincent Lindon (The Measure of a Man)
Dev Patel (Lion)
Glen Powell (Everybody Wants Some!!)
Michael Shannon (Elvis & Nixon / Midnight Special / Nocturnal Animals)
Kate Lyn Sheil (Kate Plays Christine)
Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann)
John Turturro (Mia Madre)

Best Scene
'Black Philip speaks' (The Witch)
'The boxer' (Cameraperson)
'The bridge dance' (The Fits)
'Crash and rescue' (Sully)
'The disappearance' (Valley of Love)
'Driving to Kevin's' (Moonlight)
'"Emotional rescue"' (A Bigger Splash)
'Final confrontation' (Hell or High Water)
'First contact' (Arrival)
'"The Greatest Love Of All"' (Toni Erdmann)
'Horse ride' (Certain Women)
'"It's all bullshit"' (Kate Plays Christine)
'Linguistic nonsense' (Cosmos)
'Orgy' (Sausage Party)
'Pregnant sex scene' (Neon Bull)
'The run' (O.J.: Made in America)
'The storm' (Elle)
'Termite revenge' (Aquarius)
'Warehouse party' (The Neon Demon)
'The workshop' (Happy Hour)

Worst Film
Ben-Hur
Captain Fantastic
Creative Control
Equals
The Eyes of My Mother
The Girl on the Train
Green Room
Hacksaw Ridge
Hillary's America
Independence Day: Resurgence
Ithaca
Jackie
Keeping Up with the Joneses
King Cobra
Lazy Eye
Life, Animated
Man Down
Mr. Church
The Unspoken
Yoga Hosers