The Big List 2016: Ranking Every Movie I Saw

The movie year 2016 is now in the books, and in that year I saw 175 movies that were 2016 releases, a new personal record, beating out last year’s previous record total of 162. Several months of unemployment helped me with the record which, lord willing, will not be broken again in 2017. My reviews, which this year appeared on Fox29.com, Splice Today and Broad Street Review, can all be found on Rotten Tomatoes. My more detailed top ten list is here.

Here’s my personal ranking of all 175 of the movies, as always based on no criteria other than how much I liked them:

1. La La Land
2. Everybody Wants Some!!
3. Moonlight
4. Manchester By the Sea
5. The Edge of Seventeen
6. Hail, Caesar!
7. Krisha
8. Tower
9. Toni Erdmann
10. I Am Not Your Negro
11. O.J.: Made in America
12. Hell or High Water
13. The Nice Guys
14. Paterson
15. Loving
16. Weiner
17. Cafe Society
18. Elle
19. Fences
20. The Love Witch
21. The Lobster
22. Zootopia
23. Finding Dory
24. Silence
25. Hacksaw Ridge
26. Hidden Figures
27. Don’t Think Twice
28. Creative Control
29. Sully
30. Tickled
31. Kate Plays Christine
32. De Palma
33. Do Not Resist
34. 13th
35. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
36. Kubo and the Two Strings
37. The Witch
38. War Dogs
39. Elvis & Nixon
40. Little Sister
41. Little Men
42. The Handmaiden
43. Mountains May Depart
44. A Bigger Splash
45. Moana
46. Gleason
47. Nuts!
48. Author: The J.T. Leroy Story
49. For The Love of Spock
50. Cameraperson
51. The Witness
52. Nora Ephron: Everything is Copy
53. Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
54. Amanda Knox
55. Certain Women
56. Barry
57. Deadpool
58. Captain America: Civil War
59. Doctor Strange
60. Love & Friendship
61. Hunt For the Wilderpeople
62. Jackie
63. Sausage Party
64. The Secret Life of Pets
65. The Angry Birds Movie
66. The Phenom
67. The Meddler
68. The Infiltrator
69. Midnight Special
70. White Girl
71. Pete’s Dragon
72. The Jungle Book
73. Allied
74. Sing Street
75. Neon Bull
76. Justin Timberlake and the Tennessee Kids
77. In Bed With Victoria
78. Other People
79. Army of One
80. Wiener-Dog
81. Southside With You
82. Lion
83. Christine
84. Arrival
85. Louder Than Bombs
86. The Fits
87. Chevalier
88. Star Trek: Beyond
89. Denial
90. Oasis: Supersonic
91. Holy Hell
92. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week: The Touring Years
93. Becoming Mike Nichols
94. Miss Sharon Jones
95. Zero Days
96. Jim: The James Foley Story
97. Risen
98. 10 Cloverfield Lane
99. Blue Jay
100. Lost in Paris
101. News From Planet Mars
102. Ghostbusters
103. Mascots
104. Bridget Jones’s Baby
105. Bad Moms
106. Sing
107. Life, Animated
108. Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper
109. Deepwater Horizon
110. The Accountant
111. Eye in the Sky
112. Nocturnal Animals
113. Indignation
114. The Invitation
115. Captain Fantastic
116. Barbershop: The Next Cut
117. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
118. Girl on the Train
119. Green Room
120. The Birth of a Nation
121. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
122. Hello My Name is Doris
123. Maggie’s Plan
124. Eddie the Eagle
125. The Light Between Oceans
126. Personal Shopper
127. Jason Bourne
128. Rules Don’t Apply
129. The Other Side
130. Race
131. Uncle Kent 2
132. The BFG
133. Equity
134. Tallulah
135. Demolition
136. Passengers
137. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
138. The Conjuring 2
139. A Monster Calls
140. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
141. Trolls
142. Pee Wee’s Big Holiday
143. Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
144. Knight of Cups
145. High-Rise
146. Snowden
147. Office Christmas Party
148. Keanu
149. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
150. Triple 9
151. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
152. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
153. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
154. All Governments Lie
155. Miles Ahead
156. X-Men: Apocalypse
157. How to Be Single
158. The Brothers Grimsby
159. Suicide Squad
160. Baden Baden
161. Masterminds
162. Can We Take a Joke?
163. Criminal
164. Central Intelligence
165. Special Correspondents
166. The Eyes of My Mother
167. The Neon Demon
168. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
169. Zoolander 2
170. London Has Fallen
171. Dirty Grandpa
172. Money Monster
173. Alice Through the Looking Glass
174. Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
175. Swiss Army Man

Did not see (Reputedly good): 20th Century Women, The Founder, Neruda, Live By Night, American Honey, No Home Movie, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

Did not see (Reputedly bad): Nine Lives, Collateral Beauty, Independence Day: Resurgence, Nina, Mother’s Day, Yoga Hosers, Warcraft, Hillary’s America, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben-Hur, Vaxxed