Best movies of 2016
We dissect the cinema of 2016. Here is our top ranking from best to worst based strictly on our editorial autopsies.
*The Wailing (The Stranger): Shamanism, Demon Plague, and the Existential Collapse of Rural Faith*
(2016)Na Hong-jin delivers one of the 21st century’s greatest horror masterpieces—a tale of shamans, demons, and rural conspiracy that dismantles reason itself.
The grim reality of redemption. Raúl Arévalo’s *Too Late for Wrath*—a merciless twist on survival and vengeance.
Julia Ducournau made her feature debut with this wild, exquisite cannibal fable about coming of age, college hazing, and forbidden appetites.
Yeon Sang-ho crafted one of the best action-horror zombie thrillers in recent memory, turning a high-speed train ride into a suffocating social hellscape.
A caustic takedown of *Goliath*, where justice isn’t blind—it’s just another rigged game in a courtroom circus.
The night can be very dark, but *The Night Of* is even darker.
A visceral takedown of *Animal Kingdom*, where "family values" take on a whole new (and deeply criminal) meaning.
André Øvredal locks Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch in an underground morgue to dissect the corpse of a medieval witch in this suffocatingly clinical thriller.
Damien Power delivers a raw, relentless survival thriller that dismantles the myth of Australia’s rural lyricism, turning it into a claustrophobic and harrowing human hunt.
Silvia Mordaz’s scathing review of *The Neon Demon*—a plunge into the fashion industry’s dark underbelly, where style devours substance and sanity.
Bryan Bertino fuses the raw intimacy of addiction drama with classic monster horror, crafting a claustrophobic, rain-soaked, and heart-wrenching tale.
