1. Hell or High Water.
An instant classic and a contemporary Western masterpiece for those who no longer remember cinema's most (in)famous bank robbers of long ago, and can now get the best of the past and present that the genre has to offer.
2. Zootopia.
Disney takes on social discrimination in the most original way. Ambitious and moving.
3. The Hunt for Wilderpeople.
A boy and his foster father become targets of a national manhunt in the New Zealand wilderness, and the result is the best coming of age story (for the child and the adult) of 2016.
4. L'avenir. A middle aged philosophy professor has to make adjustments to sudden changes in her life, but realizes that time of change has long passed. Isabelle Huppert's performance is the most authentic of the year.
5. Deadpool. Because some good/bad guys are just so bad/good that they're just ... the shit. The most entertaining movie of the year.
6. Eye in the Sky. Exhilarating and nerve wrecking from opening frame to the last. A bold take on modern warfare.
7. Train to Busan. Zombies on a train. In South Korea. On its way to Busan. Best Zombie movie in many years.
8. Arrival. A mother grieves her daughter, until new arrived visitors to Earth try to teach us that maybe death is not the end. Beautiful and intelligent.
9. The Witch. A creepy-as-all hell minimalist horror movie. What it lacks in gore and blood, it more than makes up in suspense and tension - and imagination.
10. Graduation. An honest doctor wants what's best for his daughter, but when her future is jeopardized, he crosses ethical lines he didn't know he was capable of. A quiet masterpiece.
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