Critically acclaimed movies of 2016

Star Trek Beyond(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The U.S.S. Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.



Lady Macbeth(2016)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.



I, Daniel Blake(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 81

After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.



Neruda(2016)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 81

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.



Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.



Nocturnal Animals(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A wealthy art gallery owner receives a draft of her ex-husband's new novel, and once she starts reading it she just cannot put it down.



Deadpool(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A fast-talking mercenary with a morbid sense of humor is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and a quest for revenge.



Lion(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.



Colossal(2016)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon.



Don't Breathe(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn't as helpless as he seems.



Captain Fantastic(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.



Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.



Pete's Dragon(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon.



The Birth of a Nation(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.



A Quiet Passion(2016)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.



Aquarius(2016)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story ...



Don't Think Twice(2016)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 80

When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all.



Deepwater Horizon(2016)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A dramatization of the disaster back in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon created a giant explosion, which created the worst oil spill in American history.



Patriots Day(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.



Their Finest(2016)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.




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