The 25 Best Films of 2016: A Video Countdown

From Indiewire senior critic David Ehrlich.

Year after year, David Ehrlich creates the best annual video compilation. 2016 has been so strange, it requires a special take. Ehrlich nails it. Watch!

For the record, Ehrlich’s top 25 movies of 2016:

1. Moonlight
 2. Sunset Song
 3. Jackie
 4. O.J.: Made In America
 5. A Bigger Splash
 6. Kubo And The Two Strings
 7. The Fits
 8. La La Land
 9. The Lobster
 10. The Love Witch
 11. The Handmaiden
 12. Toni Erdmann
 13. Indignation
 14. American Honey
 15. The Witch
 16. Hail, Caesar!
 17. Silence
 18. Swiss Army Man
 19. Manchester By The Sea
 20. Always Shine
 21. Things To Come
 22. Kate Plays Christine
 23. Lemonade
 24. High-Rise
 25. Weiner

Ehrlich uses Jimmy Carter’s famous “crisis of confidence” speech as a thematic touchstone for his video and it’s spot on relative to our zeitgeist. You can go here to watch the entire speech, perhaps more timely now than back in 1979 when it was delivered.

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