Top 10 of 2016

Each year we are happy to compile our collective lists of what we all deem to be our Top films theatrically released in Australia in 2016. Below the main list is our individual lists of what we personally enjoyed throughout the year. So without further adieu, here is Film Blerg’s Top 10 of 2016:

1. Arrival
2. La La Land
3. Spotlight
4. Room
5. Son of Saul
6. The Big Short
7. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
8. Anomolisa
9. Elle
10. The Handmaiden

James Madden

1. La La Land
2. Arrival
3. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
4. Room
5. Brooklyn
6. The Handmaiden
7. Elle
8. Maggie’s Plan
9. Remembering the Man
10. Girl Asleep

Claire Robson

1. La La Land
2. Arrival
3. Room
4. Victoria
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane
6. The Light Between Oceans
7. Mustang
8. Spotlight
9. The Daughter
10. Carol

Amy Taylor

1. Arrival
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Nocturnal Animals
4. Marguerite
5. Spotlight
6. Rosalie Blum
7. The Big Short
8. Room
9. Eye in the Sky
10. Trumbo

Angus Tonkin

1. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2. Arrival
3. Eye in the Sky
4. Everybody Wants Some!
5. NT Live: The Deep Blue Sea
6. Love and Friendship
7. Nocturnal Animals
8. Hell or High Water
9. Sherpa
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Ben Isbel

1. The Red Turtle
2. The Handmaiden
3. Anomolisa
4. Elle
5. Spotlight
6. 10 Cloverfield Lane
7. Florence Foster Jenkins
8. The Hateful 8
9. Midnight Special
10. The Nice Guys

Chris Smith

1. The Revenant
2. Son of Saul
3. Indignation
4. Paterson
5. Rogue One
6. The Hateful Eight
7. Carol
8. I, Daniel Blake
9. Snowden
10. Arrival

Dan Santos

1. Spotlight
2. Son of Saul
3. The Revenant
4. The Big Short
5. Victoria
6. Arrival
7. Carol
8. Your Name
9. La La Land
10. Deadpool

David Nagle

1. La La Land
2. The Big Short
3. Room
4. The Nice Guys
5. Don’t Breathe
6. Arrival
7. Julieta
8. The Witch
9. A Bigger Splash
10. Green Room

Kendal Coombs

1. La La Land
2. Deadpool
3. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
4. The Nice Guys
5. Spotlight
6. The Big Short
7. Doctor Strange
8. Captain Fantastic
9. Hail, Caesar!
10. Zootopia

Kevin Hawkins

1. Anomalisa
2. Spotlight
3. Swiss Army Man
4. La La Land
5. Weiner
6. Arrival
7. Room
8. Zootopia
9. Down Under
10. The Hateful Eight

Louise Agostino

1. Elle
2. The Neon Demon
3. Nocturnal Animals
4. Paterson
5. Swiss Army Man
6. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
7. Everybody Wants Some
8. Captain America: Civil War
9. Hail, Caesar!
10. Green Room

Nick Bugeja

1. Embrace of the Serpent
2. Hell or High Water
3. La La Land
4. The Handmaiden
5. I, Daniel Blake
6. Arrival
7. Weiner
8. Anomalisa
9. Hacksaw Ridge
10. Goldstone

Simon Storey

1. Son of Saul
2. 45 Years
3. The Witch
4. Spotlight
5. Under the Shadow
6. Arrival
7. Sherpa
8. Rogue One
9. Captain America: Civil War
10. Chasing Asylum