2016

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The 5th Wave – directed by J Blakeson, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, & Liev Schreiber
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane – directed by Dan Trachtenberg, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, & John Gallagher Jr.
  • 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
  • The Accountant – directed by Gavin O’Connor, starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jeffrey Tambor, & John Lithgow
  • Alice Through the Looking Glass – directed by James Bobin, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, Rhys Ifans, Helena Bonham Carter, & Sacha Baron Cohen, with the voices of Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Barbara Windsor, Matt Vogel, Paul Whitehouse, & Alan Rickman
  • The Angry Birds Movie – directed by Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly, starring the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, & Peter Dinklage
  • Bad Moms
  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Ben-Hur
  • The BFG – directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Rebecca Hall, Rafe Spall, & Bill Hader
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • Blair Witch
  • The Bodyguard – directed by an starring Sammo Hung – Hong Kong
  • The Boy
  • Bridget Jones’s Baby – directed by Sharon Maguire, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, & Emma Thompson
  • Café Society – directed by Woody Allen, starring Jeannie Berlin, Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Parker Posey, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, & Ken Stott
  • Captain America: Civil War* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo, starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, William Hurt, & Daniel Brühl
  • Central Intelligence
  • Chocolat – France
  • Christine
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Deadpool*
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Demolition
  • Dirty Grandpa – directed by Dan Mazer, starring Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Aubrey Plaza, & Zoey Deutch
  • Don’t Breathe
  • Eddie the Eagle* – UK/Germany/US
  • Edge of Seventeen – directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick, and Haley Lu Richardson
  • Elle – directed by Paul Verhoeven – France/Germany
  • Everybody Wants Some!! – directed by Richard Linklater, starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Glen Powell, Will Brittain, & Wyatt Russell
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them* – directed by Peter Yates
  • Finding Dory – directed by Andrew Stanton, starring voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, & Eugene Levy
  • Florence Foster Jenkins – directed by Stephen Frears
  • The Forest
  • Free State of Jones
  • The Founder
  • Ghostbusters*
  • The Girl on a Train
  • God’s Not Dead 2
  • Gods of Egypt
  • Green Room
  • Hail, Caesar!* – directed by Joel & Ethan Coen, starring Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, & Channing Tatum
  • The Handmaiden – directed by Park Chan-wook – South Korea
  • Hardcore Henry*
  • Hello, My Name Is Doris – directed by Michael Showalter, starring Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Beth Behrs, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Stephen Root, Elizabeth Reaser, Natasha Lyonne, & Tyne Daly
  • How to Be Single
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople – directed by Taika Waititi, starring Sam Neill, Julien Dennison, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Oscar Kightley, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Troy Kingi, Cohen Holloway, Stan Walker, Mike Minogue, Hamish Parkinson, & Lloyd Scott
  • I Saw the Light
  • Ice Age: Collision Course
  • Independence Day: Resurgence
  • Inferno – directed by Ron Howard
  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – directed by Edward Zwick, starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, supporting roles by Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Holt McCallany, & Robert Knepper
  • Jason Bourne – directed by Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Vincent Cassel, Riz Ahmed, Ato Essandoh, & Scott Shepherd
  • The Jews – directed by Yvan Attal – France
  • The Jungle Book* directed by Jon Favreau, starring Neel Sethi, with the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, & Christopher Walken
  • Keanu* – directed by Peter Atencio, starring Jordan Peele, Keegan-Michael Key, Tiffany Haddish, Method Man, Nia Long, Will Forte, & Keanu Reeves (voice cameo)
  • Kubo and the Two Strings* – directed by Travis Knight, starring voices of Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, Rooney Mara, & Matthew McConaughey
  • Kung Fu Panda 3* – directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson & Alessandro Carloni, starring the voices of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, J.K. Simmons, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, Kate Hudson, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim, & Jackie Chan
  • The Legend of Tarzan – directed by David Yates, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, & Christoph Waltz
  • Lights Out
  • Love & Friendship – directed by Whit Stillman, starring starring Kate Beckinsale, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Morfydd Clark, Jemma Redgrave, Tom Bennett, James Fleet, Justin Edwards, Jenn Murray, Stephen Fry, & Chloë Sevigny
  • The Love Witch – directed by Anna Biller, starring Samantha Robinson
  • The Magnificent Seven* – directed by Antoine Fuqua, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, & Peter Sarsgaard
  • Masterminds – directed by Jared Hess, starring Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, & Jason Sudeikis
  • Me Before You – directed by Ron Clements & John Musker, starring the voices of Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger, & Alan Tudyk
  • Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
  • Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – directed by Tim Burton
  • Moana*
  • The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio – directed by Takashi Miike
  • Money Monster – directed by Jodie Foster, starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Giancarlo Esposito, Dominic West, & Caitriona Balfe
  • A Monster Calls – directed by J.A. Bayona, starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Lewis MacDougall, & Liam Neeson
  • Morgan – directed by Luke Scott, starring Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Boyd Holbrook, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, & Paul Giamatti
  • My Life as a Zucchini – France
  • The Neon Demon – directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks, & Keanu Reeves
  • Nerve
  • The Nice Guys* – directed by Shane Black, starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, & Kim Basinger
  • Nine Lives – directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Garner, Robbie Amell, Cheryl Hines, Malina Weissman & Christopher Walken
  • Norm of the North
  • Now You See Me 2 – directed by John M. Chu, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe, Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine, & Morgan Freeman
  • The Other Side of the Door
  • Pete’s Dragon – directed by David Lowery, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, & Robert Redford
  • Personal Shopper – directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Kristen Stewart – France/Germany/Czech Republic/Belgium
  • Pop in Q – Japan
  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
  • Ratchet & Clank – directed by Jericca Cleland & Kevin Munroe, starring the voices of James Arnold Taylor, David Kaye, Jim Ward, Armin Shimerman, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Bella Thorne, Rosario Dawson & Sylvester Stallone
  • Raw – France/Belgium
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story* – directed by Gareth Edwards, starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen, & Forest Whitaker
  • Sausage Party* – directed by directed by Conrad Vernon & Greg Tiernan, starring the voices of Michael Cera, James Franco, Bill Hader, Salma Hayek, Jonah Hill, Anders Holm, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Danny McBride, Edward Norton, Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, & Kristen Wiig
  • The Secret Life of Pets
  • The Shallows
  • Sing* – directed by Garth Jennings, starring the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Nick Kroll, Taron Egerton, & Tori Kelly
  • Sing Street – UK
  • Sky on Fire – directed by Ringo Lam – Hong Kong
  • Snowden – directed by Oliver Stone, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans & Nicolas Cage
  • Special Female Force – Hong Kong/Malaysia
  • Star Trek Beyond – directed by Justin Lyn, starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Idris Elba, Sofia Boutella, Joe Taslim, & Lydia Wilson
  • Storks – directed by Nicholas Stoller & Doug Sweetland, starring the voices of Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Stephen Kramer Glickman, & Danny Trejo
  • Suicide Squad* – directed by David Ayer, starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Scott Eastwood, Karen Fukuhara, Ike Barinholtz, and Cara Delevingne, & Jared Leto
  • Sully – directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Autumn Reeser, Holt McCallany, Jamey Sheridan, & Jerry Ferrara
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
  • Term Life – directed by Peter Billingsley, starring Vince Vaughn, Hailee Steinfeld, Jonathan Banks, Mike Epps, Jordi Molla, Shea Whigham, William Levy, Taraji P. Henson, Annabeth Gish, & Terrence Howard
  • Terra Formars – directed by Takashi Miike – Japan
  • Two is a Family – France
  • Voyage of Time – directed by Terrence Malick – documentary
  • War Dogs – directed by Todd Phillips, starring Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, & Bradley Cooper
  • Warcraft – directed by Duncan Jones, starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, & Daniel Wu
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot – directed by Glenn Ficarra & John Requa, starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Christopher Abbott, Alfred Molina, & Billy Bob Thornton
  • The Witch – directed by Robert Eggers, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, & Lucas Dawson
  • X-Men: Apocalypse* – directed by Bryan Singer, starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, & Lucas Till
  • The Young Messiah
  • Zoolander 2 – directed by and starring Ben Stiller, with Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Penélope Cruz, & Kristen Wiig
  • Zootopia* – directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, & Jared Bush, starring the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tommy Chong, J.K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, & Shakira

Film Decades: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019