6,819 films on the site were released in 2016, and 743 have enough critic or audience ratings to be ranked. One More Time with Feeling tops the list, ahead of La La Land and Princess. The biggest hit was Captain America: Civil War with $1.2B worldwide, and Moonlight won Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars.
One More Time with Feeling is the best-rated film of 2016, with a rank value of 87/100 from critics and audiences, ahead of La La Land (86/100). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
#1 of 743 Best-rated film of 2016
2016 Music Documentary 1h 52m English
92 Metascore $904.4K worldwide
Directed by Andrew Dominik
One More Time with Feeling earned $904.4K worldwide; the year's biggest hit, Captain America: Civil War, earned $1.2B.
About One More Time with FeelingLa La Land and Princess follow One More Time with Feeling. Drama is the most common genre in the top 25 (15 films). Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
2016 · Drama, Comedy · 2h 8m
Dir. Damien Chazelle No Echo Score: ranked 86/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 1h 32m
Dir. Tali Shalom-Ezer No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 2h 17m
Dir. Kenneth Lonergan No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama, Thriller · 2h 24m
Dir. Chan-wook Park No Echo Score: ranked 85/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · History, Crime · 1h 36m
Dir. Keith Maitland No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 1h 51m
Dir. Barry Jenkins No Echo Score: ranked 84/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Documentary · 1h 50m
Dir. J. Clay Tweel No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 1h 22m
Dir. Musa Syeed No Echo Score: ranked 83/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 2h 22m
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 1h 32m
Dir. José Luis Guerín No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 1h 42m
Dir. Mia Hansen-Løve No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama, Crime · 1h 42m
Dir. David Mackenzie No Echo Score: ranked 82/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama, Mystery · 1h 53m
Dir. Gan Bi No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 2h 1m
Dir. Sang-soo Hong No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Adventure, Mystery · 1h 45m
Dir. Christian Desmares No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Documentary · 1h 21m
Dir. Michele Mitchell No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama, Comedy · 1h 58m
Dir. Jim Jarmusch No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Biography, Documentary · 1h 29m
Dir. Jacob Bernstein No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 41m
Dir. Travis Knight No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama, Comedy · 2h 42m
Dir. Maren Ade No Echo Score: ranked 81/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Action, Adventure · 1h 48m
Dir. Rich Moore No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Documentary · 1h 33m
Dir. Raoul Peck No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Crime, Documentary · 1h 40m
Dir. Ava DuVernay No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
2016 · Drama · 2h 2m
Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul No Echo Score: ranked 80/100 on critics & audiences
Captain America: Civil War earned $1.2B worldwide, ahead of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ($1.1B). The top 10 took $9.3B together; 1,718 films released in 2016 have a box office record here. Grosses that look like data errors are left out.
#1 $1.2B worldwide Captain America: Civil War $408.1M domestic · Action 
#2 $1.1B worldwide Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $533.5M domestic · Action 
#3 $1B worldwide Finding Dory $486.3M domestic · Adventure #4 $1B worldwide Zootopia $341.3M domestic · Action 
#5 $967.7M worldwide The Jungle Book $364M domestic · Adventure 
#6 $875.7M worldwide The Secret Life of Pets $368.6M domestic · Adventure 
#7 $874.4M worldwide Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $330.4M domestic · Action 
#8 $816M worldwide Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $234M domestic · Adventure 
#9 $782.8M worldwide Deadpool $363.1M domestic · Action 
#10 $749.2M worldwide Suicide Squad $325.1M domestic · Action La La Land leads with 25 wins from 45 nominations, then Hacksaw Ridge with 16 wins. Moonlight won Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars. In all, 140 films released in 2016 have award nominations on the site, with 161 wins between them.
The highest-ranked 2016 film of 12 genres, from Music (One More Time with Feeling) to Action (Zootopia). Each film appears once, under its first genre that is still free.
One More Time with Feeling 92 Metascore La La Land 94 Metascore The Handmaiden 85 Metascore Tower 92 Metascore Gleason 80 Metascore Hell or High Water 88 Metascore Kaili Blues 85 Metascore April and the Extraordinary World 85 Metascore Paterson 90 Metascore Everything Is Copy 88 Metascore Kubo and the Two Strings 84 Metascore Zootopia 78 Metascore October was the busiest month of 2016 with 825 releases; its best-rated film is The Handmaiden.
49% of 2016's films with a known language are in English (3,312). Spanish comes next with 413 films, out of 79 languages in all.
A best-of page for each of 55 years, from 1900 to 2026 (so far). Before 1980 there is one page per decade, for its first year (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970); from 1980 every year has its own.
Quick answers about 2016's best-rated films, biggest hits and awards, from the lists above.
One More Time with Feeling is the best-rated film of 2016 on What's After the Movie, with a rank value of 87/100 from critics and audiences. La La Land is second and Princess third. Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases).
About One More Time with FeelingCaptain America: Civil War earned $1.2B worldwide, the most of any 2016 release on the site. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story follows with $1.1B.
2016 box officeMoonlight (2016) won Best Picture at the 2017 Academy Awards.
MoonlightLa La Land has the best award record of the 2016 releases on the site: 25 wins from 45 nominations.
2017 awards seasonThe site lists 6,819 films released in 2016. 743 of them are ranked, and October had the most releases with a known day (825).
Ranked by a blend of Metascore and IMDb/Letterboxd user ratings (Echo Scores start with 2017 releases). Only feature films count (60 minutes or longer, no concert recordings), and a film needs enough ratings, box office or award attention to be ranked.
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