A Year of Good Stuff in Film, 2016

2016 brought more noteworthy movies than can fit on the usual year-end top 10 list. Here's the complete lineup of a films we named critics' picks this year. Not all of them played on big screens in Dallas, and some are still coming this way, but all of them are...

By The Mixmaster

December 30, 2016

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2016 brought more noteworthy movies than can fit on the usual year-end top 10 list. Here's the complete lineup of a films we named critics' picks this year. Not all of them played on big screens in Dallas, and some are still coming this way, but all of them are worth looking up.

January
In the Shadow of Women
Sweaty Betty
The Treasure
February
Rams
A.K.: The Making of Ran
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
Bad Hurt
Colliding Dreams
Embrace of the Serpent

March
Knight of Cups
Boom Bust Boom
City of Gold
Cemetery of Splendor
Everybody Wants Some!!
Fireworks Wednesday
Krisha
The Little Prince
My Golden Days
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
River of Grass
A Space Program
Too Late
April
Transfixed
Notfilm
Francofonia
They Will Have to Kill Us First
The Family Fang
A Touch of Zen
A Hologram for the King
Hockney
Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream
Sworn Virgin
The Tale of Tales
Above and Below
Green Room
The Jungle Book
La-Bas
The Measure of a Man
Showman
Wrong Move
May
Chevalier
Holy Hell
Paths of the Soul
Kaili Blues
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
O.J.: Made In America
Weiner
The Lobster
Love & Friendship
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Sunset Song
Band of Outsiders
Beautiful Something
Dragon Inn
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
To Life
June
Dheepan
Cosmos
My Love, Don't Cross That River
Tickled
Germans & Jews
Szindbád
Tikkun
Approaching the Unknown
The Final Master
The Fits
The Thoughts That Once We Had
July
At the Fork
Men Go To Battle
Under the Sun
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Ants on a Shrimp
The Childhood of a Leader
Don't Think Twice
For the Plasma
Hooligan Sparrow
Summertime
Gleason
Hollywood Beauty Salon
Into the Forest
Miss Sharon Jones!
The Land
August
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
Little Men
The Tenth Man
Will You Dance With Me?
The Bride
Elevator to the Gallows
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
Disorder
Hell or High Water
Sudden Fear
Ixcanul
Kubo and the Two Strings
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Morris from America
Spa Night
When Two Worlds Collide
Happy Hour
Howard's End
Mia Madre
September
Morgan
As I Open My Eyes
Cameraperson
Chan is Missing
Demon
London Road
Bridget Jones's Baby
Command and Control
A Family Affair
Tanna
The Vessel
The Age of Shadows
Closet Monster
Ruins of Lifta
Among the Believers
Deepwater Horizon
A Man Called Ove
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Sand Storm

October
13th
Being 17
Blue Jay
Newtown
Phantasm: Remastered
Under the Shadow
Aquarius
Asura: City of Madness
Certain Women
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Sky Ladder
Tower
Creepy
Fire at Sea
The Handmaiden
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Moonlight
A Stray
The Terrorizers
The Uncondemned
Portrait of a Garden
November
Loving
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Arrival
Elle
Iron Moon
The Love Witch
The Monster
The Watermelon Woman
Daughters of the Dust
I Am Not Madame Bovary
The Illinois Parables
Manchester by the Sea
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Allied
Always Shine
Evolution
Baden Baden
Moana
December
Fences
Ghostland
The Lion In Winter
Neruda
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Hidden Figures
I, Daniel Blake
Julieta
Silence
Toni Erdmann
The Red Turtle
I Am Not Your Negro

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