The Crummy.com Review of Things 2016: Film

Film: Maintaining Film Roundup Roundup (now updated with 150 high-quality films!) makes it pretty easy to come up with a top ten for 2016:


Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
Dekalog 10 (1989)
Tampopo (1985)
Inquiring Nuns (1968)
Approaching the Elephant (2014)
Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed (2004)
A Short Film about Killing (1988)
Dekalog 1 (1989)
Hail, Ceasar! (2016)
The Defiant Ones (1958)

Look at that list, we got four documentaries on there.

My lower-tier "recommended" list gets longer every year; here's a quick stab at the top ten of my twenty-one recommended movies from 2016:


Moana (2016)
Ghostbusters (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
Caucus (2013)
La La Land (2016)
Avanti! (1972)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Synecdoche, New York (2006)
It (1927)

I'm not really happy with calling that second tier "recommended" because it implies I'll scoff at your decision to see a solid film like Arrival or Kung Fu Hustle that I didn't put on my list. Hopefully no one does the data gathering necessary to deduce (incorrectly) that I'm scoffing at you.

After several years of Film Roundup I think I can now make what to me looks like a normal person's top ten film list, containing only movies from 2016. All of these were worth watching:


Hail, Ceasar!
Moana
Ghostbusters
La La Land
Deadpool
Arrival
Star Trek: Beyond
A Beautiful Planet
Shin Godzilla
Zootopia
The Last Arcade

Kind of a boring list though! Where are the nuns, the fourth-wall-breaking gangsters, or the convicts handcuffed to each other? Answer: in movies from previous years.