The best films of 2. Sight & Sound. Individual contributions. Sight & Sound editors’ votes and comments. Nick James. Editor. Watch Easy Rider: The Ride Back Youtube. Toni Erdmann. Maren Ade.

Elle. Paul Verhoeven. Fire at Sea. Gianfranco Rosi. Embrace of the Serpent. Ciro Guerra. Paterson. Jim Jarmusch. A rotten year, but not for cinema. That films as imaginative as that spare portrait of an awkward young black girl, The Fits, or Barry Jenkins’s moody depiction of a black gay outsider, Moonlight, or Natalie Portman’s searing portrayal of JFK’s first lady, Jackie, don’t make my five indicates how strong it was. Also of note was Manchester by the Sea, a blue- collar high tragedy with wrenching performances that weigh the balance so carefully between the push and pull of guilt and responsibility that the film is emotionally exhausting.

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Fire at Sea found a fresh way of viewing the immigrants risking their lives in lethal boats on the Mediterranean. Paterson was just the most soulful, quiet local neighbourhood pleasure at Cannes and Toni Erdmann the most outlandishly unforeseen comedy of manners. Elle is a watershed film, the most involving psychological thriller in years, and Embrace of the Serpent felt like a rethinking of so much adventure cinema from the last half century. Cinema did the seductive part of its function well, taking us out of ourselves, and how we needed that.

Kieron Corless. Deputy Editor. A great year for cinema, and I still haven’t seen Albert Serra’s new film. In no particular order: Cemetery of Splendour. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. A trip into the Thai subconscious and a disfigured, decaying body politic, couched in an atmosphere of tranquil unrest. It comes off like some mesmerising, serenely disruptive sci- fi. Mimosas. Oliver Laxe.

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The breakout film from the Galician scene is a shamanistic ride into the Moroccan mountains and desert, and more than fulfils the promise of You Are All Captains. It’s beautiful, strange, unclassifiable; Laxe will surely be one of the great directors of the next few decades. Son of Joseph (Le Fils de Joseph) Eugène Green. A meditation on fatherhood and family filtered through the Bible and Baroque civilisation, with satirical detours into up- its- own Parisian literary culture. Another brilliant one- off from the sublime Eugène Green. Elle. Paul Verhoeven. Isabelle Huppert’s is the performance of the year, and possibly a career best.

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Improbably, Paul Verhoeven just gets better and better, here channelling the spirit of Fritz Lang into a contemporary allegory on unredeemable male monsters and their overcoming. Staying Vertical (Rester Vertical) Alain Guiraudie. Wilder and freer than the more classical Stranger by the Lake, the film literally reinvents itself from scene to scene, and yet somehow feels all of a piece.

Brilliantly, blackly comic. Special mention to Slack Bay: a brilliantly achieved creation of a unique universe, melding different types of comedy – black, grotesque, farce, burlesque, comic- book, expressionist – in service of a savage social satire. James Bell. Features Editor. Paterson. Jim Jarmusch.

Embrace of the Serpent. Ciro Guerra. Elle. Paul Verhoeven. Moonlight. Barry Jenkins. Love & Friendship.

Whit Stillman. Nick Bradshaw. Web Editor. Cameraperson. Kirsten Johnston. Tempestad. Tatiana Huezo. Kings of Nowhere.

Betzabé García. Depth Two. Ognjen Glavonic. Dawson City: Frozen Time. Bill Morrison. Baden Baden (2. Top films from Europe.

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Toni Erdmann  4. 8 votes. Elle  3. 3 votes. American Honey  2. I, Daniel Blake  1. Things to Come (L’Avenir)  1. The Death of Louis XIV  1. Personal Shopper  1.

Sieranevada  1. 2 votes. Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare)  1.

Julieta  1. 1 votes. Nocturama  1. 1 votes.

Love & Friendship  9 votes. Victoria  8 votes. Evolution  7 votes. The Ornithologist  6 votes. Raw  6 votes. Baden Baden  5 votes. The Dreamed Path  5 votes.

The Neon Demon  5 votes. A Quiet Passion  5 votes. Hyper. Normalisation  4 votes. No Home Movie  4 votes.

Son of Saul  4 votes↑ Back to contents. Isabel Stevens. Production Editor. Toni Erdmann. Maren Ade.

Baden Baden. Rachel Lang. Certain Women. Kelly Reichardt.

Elle. Paul Verhoeven. Moonlight. Barry Jenkins. International critics and curators’ votes and comments. Jason Anderson. Critic (Cinema- scope) and programmer (TIFF), Canada. Toni Erdmann. Maren Ade.

Certain Women. Kelly Reichardt. The Witch. Robert Eggers. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki.

Juho Kuosmanen. Moonlight. Barry Jenkins. Geoff Andrew.

Programmer- at- large (BFI Southbank), UKSieranevada. Cristi Puiu. Paterson. Jim Jarmusch. A Quiet Passion. Terence Davies. Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) Gianfranco Rosi. Things to Come Mia Hansen- Løve.

I found it unusually difficult to choose just five top films, not because 2. Finally, after my first three choices (which absolutely had to be in), I reluctantly left out 2.

Fire at Sea could have been replaced by I, Daniel Blake, The Unknown Girl, Toni Erdmann, Hissein Habré: A Chadian Tragedy or various other films dealing powerfully with the politics of our troubled world. Things to Come could have been replaced by Elle (Huppert is surely the greatest actress of our age). And I felt especially bad about not being able to include fine new works by Radu Jude, Whit Stillman, Bertrand Tavernier, Asli Ozge and José Luis Guerín, not to mention a second film – Gimme Danger – by Jim Jarmusch. Since an allocation of ten wouldn’t have been enough, five was excruciatingly insufficient. The highlight of my year was probably the London Film Festival’s Archive Gala screening of Arthur Robison’s The Informer – a meticulous BFI restoration of one of the best British films made at the end of the silent era, with a truly superb live performance of an unusually audacious, subtle, detailed and evocative new score for sextet by virtuoso violist and composer Garth Knox.

Both cinematically and musically, it was a marvellous evening. Sadly, however, the year’s most memorable event was the shocking, perhaps wholly avoidable death of Abbas Kiarostami, for me and many others the greatest artist working in film over the last few decades. What a terrible loss to cinema. Corrina Antrobus. Programmer (Bechdel Test Fest), UKMoonlight. Barry Jenkins. Mustang.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven. American Honey. Andrea Arnold. Certain Women. Kelly Reichardt. The Handmaiden. Park Chan- wook. It’s been a bleak year.

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