![]() ![]() In holding up these films-which hail from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, United States, and the U.K.-we hope to direct our readers to the kinds of beauty and righteousness that drove us to love this medium in the first place. And while the film that landed in our top spot last year- In Jackson Heights, Frederick Wiseman’s typically soft-spoken hymn to American diversity-feels perhaps more politically urgent than any of the titles below, each of the films that made the cut this year is a singular work of art that stands in poignant contrast to a mass culture that seems to have fallen down a rabbit hole of crassness. ![]() Instead, let’s move to a note of positivity: the past twelve months have been especially strong for North American theatrical releases, inspiring waves of excitement and sighs of relief in our film critical circles. If there was ever a sign that things aren’t getting better, it’s the first sentence of our best-of article from last year: “In terms of worldwide events and homegrown politics, 2015 has mostly been a year of bury-your-head-in-the-sand horrors.” It’s not worth enumerating the reasons why this has remained true for 2016. ![]()
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