Every year I am making a list of all films I watched during that period, but this time I will do something else. Since I have changed my way of recording which films I watched during the year (it is now digitized and online), I will no longer post here the long list of all the films I watched during the year. However, I will make a list of the best films I watched, so here’s the list of the best films I watched in 2016 (some of them I watched before).

• The Thin Red Line 10/10
• The New World 10/10
• The Lives of Others 10/10
• The Turin Horse 10/10
• The Witch 9/10
• The Double Life of Veronique 9/10
• To the Wonder 9/10
• El Sur 9/10
• The Tree of Life 9/10
• A Short Film About Love 9/10
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 9/10
• Arrival 9/10
• Stories We Tell 9/10
• The Straight Story 9/10
• Amarcord 9/10
• I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 9/10

As you can see, 16 films received 4 or 5 Avdibeg stars, which is actually a new record. Normally I gave only one or two, but the difference is that I really focused more on quality this year.