Best 2016 movies

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August 29, 2025
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Best 2016 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 2016 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.
1 / 20
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#20. 20th Century Women

- Stacker score: 89.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 51,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Mike Mills
- Actors: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,664,764
2 / 20
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#19. I, Daniel Blake

- Stacker score: 89.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 67,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Ken Loach
- Actors: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $260,354
3 / 20
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#18. Things to Come

- Stacker score: 90.2
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
- Actors: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $388,140
4 / 20
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#17. Moana

- Stacker score: 90.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 424,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall
- Actors: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $248,757,044
5 / 20
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#16. Sing Street

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 106,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: John Carney
- Actors: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $3,237,118
6 / 20
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#15. Zootopia

- Stacker score: 90.8
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 590,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush
- Actors: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba
- Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $341,268,248
7 / 20
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#14. A Silent Voice: The Movie

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 127,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Naoko Yamada
- Actors: Miyu Irino, Saori Hayami, Aoi Yûki
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $1,079,689
8 / 20
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#13. Hunt for the Wilderpeople

- Stacker score: 91.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 149,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Taika Waititi
- Actors: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $5,205,468
9 / 20
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#12. Weiner

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 11,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
- Actors: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Jordan Zain Weiner
- Runtime: 1 hour 36 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,676,108
10 / 20
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#11. Arrival

- Stacker score: 92.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 831,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Actors: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $100,546,139
11 / 20
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#10. Kubo and the Two Strings

- Stacker score: 92.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 144,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Travis Knight
- Actors: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $48,023,088
12 / 20
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#9. The Salesman

- Stacker score: 93.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 67,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Asghar Farhadi
- Actors: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $2,402,067
13 / 20
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#8. 13th

- Stacker score: 93.7
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 39,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Ava DuVernay
- Actors: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: TV-MA
- Box office: N/A
14 / 20
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#7. Paterson

- Stacker score: 93.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 93,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Actors: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,152,738
15 / 20
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#6. Hell or High Water

- Stacker score: 94.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 269,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: David Mackenzie
- Actors: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $27,007,844
16 / 20
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#5. Toni Erdmann

- Stacker score: 95.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 54,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Maren Ade
- Actors: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn
- Runtime: 2 hours 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,479,387
17 / 20
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#4. Moonlight

- Stacker score: 99.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 345,000)
- Metascore: 99
- Director: Barry Jenkins
- Actors: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $27,854,932
18 / 20
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#3. I Am Not Your Negro

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Raoul Peck
- Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $7,123,919
19 / 20
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#2. Manchester by the Sea

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 341,000)
- Metascore: 96
- Director: Kenneth Lonergan
- Actors: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler
- Runtime: 2 hours 17 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $47,695,371
20 / 20
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#1. La La Land

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 731,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Damien Chazelle
- Actors: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $151,101,803

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