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Best Movies of 2016, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
99 films from 2016 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Your Name. ('2016), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Passengers, 7.0 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your Name. '2016 | Animation / Romance / Drama | 8.4 | 98% | 81 | 8.5 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 2 | Deadpool '2016 | Action / Comedy | 8.0 | 85% | 65 | 7.6 | Tim Miller |
| 3 | Hacksaw Ridge '2016 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 84% | 71 | 8.2 | Mel Gibson |
| 4 | La La Land '2016 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 91% | 94 | 7.9 | Damien Chazelle |
| 5 | Zootopia '2016 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | 98% | 78 | 7.8 | Byron Howard |
| 6 | Arrival '2016 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 7 | Captain America: Civil War '2016 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 90% | 75 | 7.5 | Joe Russo |
| 8 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story '2016 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 84% | 65 | 7.5 | Gareth Edwards |
| 9 | Lion '2016 | Drama | 8.0 | 84% | 69 | 8.0 | Garth Davis |
| 10 | The Handmaiden '2016 | Thriller / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 96% | 85 | 8.2 | Park Chan-wook |
| 11 | Manchester by the Sea '2016 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 96 | 7.5 | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 12 | A Silent Voice: The Movie '2016 | Animation / Drama / Romance | 8.2 | - | 78 | 8.4 | Naoko Yamada |
| 13 | Hidden Figures '2016 | Drama | 7.8 | 93% | 74 | 8.1 | Theodore Melfi |
| 14 | Doctor Strange '2016 | Fantasy / Action | 7.5 | 89% | 72 | 7.4 | Scott Derrickson |
| 15 | Captain Fantastic '2016 | Drama / Comedy | 7.8 | 82% | 72 | 7.9 | Matt Ross |
| 16 | Moana '2016 | Comedy / Animation | 7.6 | 96% | 81 | 7.6 | John Musker |
| 17 | Train to Busan '2016 | Action / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 73 | 7.8 | Yeon Sang-ho |
| 18 | Hell or High Water '2016 | Western / Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 97% | 88 | 7.3 | David Mackenzie |
| 19 | The Nice Guys '2016 | Comedy / Crime / Action | 7.4 | 91% | 70 | 7.1 | Shane Black |
| 20 | Moonlight '2016 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 99 | 7.4 | Barry Jenkins |
| 21 | Kubo and the Two Strings '2016 | Animation | 7.7 | 97% | 84 | 7.6 | Travis Knight |
| 22 | Me Before You '2016 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 55% | 51 | 7.9 | Thea Sharrock |
| 23 | Nocturnal Animals '2016 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 74% | 67 | 7.4 | Tom Ford |
| 24 | Sully '2016 | Drama | 7.4 | 85% | 74 | 7.2 | Clint Eastwood |
| 25 | The Accountant '2016 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.3 | 53% | 51 | 7.1 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 26 | The Conjuring 2 '2016 | Horror | 7.3 | 80% | 65 | 7.3 | James Wan |
| 27 | The Jungle Book '2016 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 94% | 77 | 6.9 | Jon Favreau |
| 28 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them '2016 | Fantasy | 7.2 | 74% | 66 | 7.3 | David Yates |
| 29 | 10 Cloverfield Lane '2016 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror | 7.2 | 91% | 76 | 7.0 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 30 | Perfect Strangers '2016 | Drama | 7.7 | 79% | - | 7.8 | Paolo Genovese |
| 31 | Finding Dory '2016 | Animation | 7.2 | 94% | 77 | 7.0 | Andrew Stanton |
| 32 | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi '2016 | War / Drama | 7.3 | 52% | 48 | 7.3 | Michael Bay |
| 33 | Snowden '2016 | Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.3 | 61% | 58 | 7.1 | Oliver Stone |
| 34 | The Edge of Seventeen '2016 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 77 | 7.1 | Kelly Fremon Craig |
| 35 | The Founder '2016 | Drama | 7.2 | 80% | 66 | 7.2 | John Lee Hancock |
| 36 | A Monster Calls '2016 | Fantasy | 7.4 | 86% | 76 | 7.3 | J. A. Bayona |
| 37 | Don't Breathe '2016 | Horror / Thriller | 7.1 | 88% | 71 | 7.0 | Fede Álvarez |
| 38 | War Dogs '2016 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 62% | 57 | 7.0 | Todd Phillips |
| 39 | Silence '2016 | Drama | 7.2 | 83% | 79 | 7.1 | Martin Scorsese |
| 40 | Kung Fu Panda 3 '2016 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 7.1 | 87% | 66 | 6.9 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
| 41 | Sing '2016 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.1 | 71% | 59 | 7.1 | Garth Jennings |
| 42 | Deepwater Horizon '2016 | Drama / Action | 7.1 | 82% | 68 | 6.9 | Peter Berg |
| 43 | Allied '2016 | Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller | 7.1 | 60% | 60 | 6.8 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 44 | Passengers '2016 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 30% | 41 | 7.0 | Morten Tyldum |
| 45 | The Witch '2016 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.0 | 91% | 84 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 46 | Star Trek Beyond '2016 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 86% | 68 | 6.8 | Justin Lin |
| 47 | Two Is a Family '2016 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | 43% | - | 7.7 | Hugo Gélin |
| 48 | The Magnificent Seven '2016 | Action / Western | 6.9 | 64% | 54 | 6.5 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 49 | Green Room '2016 | Horror / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 90% | 79 | 6.7 | Jeremy Saulnier |
| 50 | Swiss Army Man '2016 | Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.9 | 73% | 64 | 6.9 | Daniel Kwan |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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