Sunday, January 22, 2017

The Best of 2016



Here’s my ranking of the movies I saw that were released in 2016. 
Unfortunately, there are many acclaimed movies that I haven’t seen yet, like Jackie,
Silence, Everybody Wants Some, and 20th Century Women,   
Should I see them, I’ll go back and inject them into my "subject to change" list,
not that you’ll ever look at this list again.  One more thing, some of these movies
I haven’t written about yet, but will soon,

Arrival – 10
Hidden Figures - 10
La La Land – 10
Hacksaw Ridge - 10
Hell or High Water - 9
Manchester by the Sea - 9
Captain Fantastic - 9
Star Trek Beyond – 9
Deepwater Horizon - 9
Midnight Special – 9
Deadpool – 8
10 Cloverfield Lane – 8
Jack Reacher:  Never Go Back – 8
The Accountant - 8
Suicide Squad - 8
The Free State of Jones – 8
Southside with You - 8
Criminal – 8
Money Monster - 8
Fences – 7
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - 7
Nocturnal Animals – 6
Moonlight - 6
Edge of Seventeen - 6
Sully - 5
Jason Bourne - 5
Hail, Caesar – 5
Independence Day:  Resurgence - 2}
The Girl on the Train - 1

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Documentaries:
OJ – Made in America - 10
Weiner - 10
Gleason – 10
13th - 10
Nothing Left Unsaid – 10
Marathon:  The Patriots Day Bombing - 10
Becoming Mike Nichols – 8
Bright Lights – Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds – 8
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TV Shows I wrote about
Rectify – 10
All the Way - 10
The Good Wife – 10
Roadies - 10
Billions – 10
The Night of – 10
The People vs. OJ Simpson - 10
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel - 10
Cyberwars - 9
Vinyl - 9
Confirmation - 8
My guilty pleasures on TV are Timeless and Lethat Weapon because they feature graduates of Rectify, which had such a fantastic cast.

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While this was an exceptional year for movies, particularly documentaries,
no movie cracked my top ten of the 21st Century so far:

1
Serenity
2
Gone Baby Gone
3
Inception
4
The Dark Knight Rises
5
Pan's Labyrinth
6
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7
The East
8
Zero Dark Thirty
9
The Wolf of Wall Street
10
Minority Report





See you at the movies!












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