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Essential Films 0f 2016
Favorites
Arrival
Captain America: Civil War
Captain Fantastic
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
La La Land
The Lobster
The Nice Guys
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Honorable mention
20th Century Women
Allied
The Disaster Artist
Doctor Strange
Florence Foster Jenkins
I Am Not Your Negro
Passengers
Sully
All ages
Finding Dory
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
Trolls
Guilty pleasures
Now You See Me 2
Holiday
Bad Santa 2
Want to see
13th (Ava DuVernay documentary)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Anthropoid (WWII Cillian Murphy)
Hail, Caesar! (Coen Brothers)
The Disappointments Room
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fences
Hail, Caesar!
Jackie
Lion
Loving
Manchester By the Sea
Money Monster
Nocturnal Animals
One More Time with Feeling (Nick Cave documentary)
Paterson
The Salesman (Iran)
Silence
Sleight
Toni Erdmann (German-Austrian, father-daughter dramedy)
Tower (animated documentary about Texas shooting)
Disappointing or underwhelming
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Moonlight
Suicide Squad (didn’t finish)
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ESSENTIAL MUSIC OF 2016
Albums
Kings of Leon - WALLS
Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing
Pink Martini - Je Dis Oui!
Sia - This Is Acting
The Vaccines - English Graffiti
Honorable mention
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service
James Arthur - Back from the Edge
Chevelle - The North Corridor
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Crowder - American Prodigal
Gavin DeGraw - Something Worth Saving
James - The Girl at the End of the World
Miranda Lambert - The Weight of These Wings
The Raveonettes - 2016 Atomized
Ray LaMontagne - Ouroboros
Pixies - Head Carrier
Wintersleep - The Great Detachment
The greatest songs of 2016
Are You Lost in the World Like Me? by Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Eyes on You - Kings of Leon
Over - Kings of Leon
Surfer’s Song by James
Talk to Me by Run the Jewels
The Trouble With Boys - David Bazan
Unstoppable - Sia
Waste a Moment - Kings of Leon
2016 PLAYLISTS BY MONTH
January
Are You Lost in the World Like Me? Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Wild - Kings of Leon
February
coming soon
March
coming soon
April
Find Me - Kings of Leon
Walls - Kings of Leon
May
coming soon
June
Unstoppable - Sia
Around the World - Kings of Leon
July
Surfer’s Song - James
August
Waste a Moment - Kings of Leon
September
The Trouble With Boys - David Bazan
Over - Kings of Leon
Eyes on You - Kings of Leon
October
November
Muchacho - Kings of Leon